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Quote by: Whatssnew But so manny of you reject removing a murderous, mental, Hitler like man from power in the Middle East, who also can play havoc on world economy |
The world is full of little Hitlers, dood... shall we invade Myanmar because of how they're currently treating their citizens? How about North Korea? They're vastly more dangerous than Iraq ever was... they just don't have any oil. Or how about Sudan? Or Zimbabwe? Or Egypt or Saudi Arabia... oh wait, that's right, they're our friends.
We opposed the invasion of Iraq because it was wrong, on a variety of levels...
First it was wrong because it violated every principle America stands for. Iraq was a sovereign, defeated nation essentially at peace; they were not attacking anyone, they weren't threatening to attack anyone or even capable of attacking anyone. Hussein was sticking his tongue out at us, that's all. We don't kill tens of thousands of people for that.
Second, it was wrong because it was a really, really bad idea. Invading and occupying a large, hostile nation, halfway around the world that's surrounded on three sides by hostile populations that hate us even more than the Iraqis, smack in the middle of a part of the world where religious terrorism is a practiced artform, is an invitation to a hopless quagmire.
It's as if we hadn't learned a gawddam thing from history... Vietnam, Bierut, Somalia, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
As to your whines about liberal violence in the 60's, I'll offer two phrases.
BABY BOOM THE DRAFT
By the late 60's, the massive majority of spoiled, over indulged baby boomers were coming of age, and in their youthful arrogance they were very, VERY unhappy that the draft could pluck them off the streets and force them into the never-ending, murderous Black Hole that was the war in Vietnam. That combined with the heightened emotions of the tectonic changes brought about by the civil rights movement led over-hormoned, overly self-righteous young people to go a bit crazy,
I know, cuz was there, Whatsnew. Were you?
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