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Quote by: swordsman G. Adams
Why do you have to force a nation to fight? Apparently more than enough entered the coalition.
As far as Russia and China, I didnt mean I expect them to send troops, weve never been on great terms with them.
Why did you bring up somalia?
Expansionism, I thought we justed ousted a dictator, or has the media completely wiped that out of the worlds memory. Or do you think the Iraqis were better in his hands? |
Britain entered into the war because our government spineless and it's leader deluded with a messiah complex. Just an addition, no leader in modern times has used his military on as many missions within such a short time span as Tony Blair has. There are five main ones-2xIraq, 1 Afghanistan, 1 Bosnia, 1 Sierra Leone. He has also set them to East Timor and the Congo as part of international groups. This all within eight years.
As for the other governments - Italy, Australia and Spain are/were ran by right wing nuts who adore Bush. Poland still likes you. Okay, now who else made a real contribution? Bugger all, and this lot hardly sent a jot compared to the British and US deployments.
I brought up Somalia, as well as Russia & China, as 3 of many illustrations of where you do not have global dominance.
What does ousting a dictator have to do with expansionism? I'm sure Napoleon ousted many pretty nasty autocrats too but it doesn't mean he wasn't an expansionist.
Where the Iraqi's better under Saddam? As compared to what, the life under foreign occupation? Most probably, at least there wern't bombs going off every five seconds. In his entire reign Saddam killed around 750 000 of his own people. That really is a horiffic body count. The occupation had claimed the lives of over 100 000 by sometime last year (whenever it was The Lancet released those figures). If we knew how many civilians were killed in the second attempt to take Fallujah, no doubt it would be higher. So in that 2 years you've managed to kill over 13% of Saddams total. If this keeps up, you'll be able to beat his record in about 8 years. Go team!