Mac Allah said:
Your right Tenkamenin did make some great points.. but all i'm trying to say is why did we not do anything about it in the past why did we just sit on our ass until now sadam gassed the kurds in the 80's...
I really don't know why
they (there was a different government then) didn't stop him in 1988 when the Kurds were gassed. Something should have been done, I couldn't agree more. I think Mcleanhatch made a pretty good point in saying that both countries (Iran - Iraq) were our enemies at the time; maybe that's why they didn't intervene, I don't know.
Mac Allah said:
And why did we support other brutal murderers.
I have a hard time understanding this "we" that some of you guys use redundantly. Are you refering to Reagon, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., All of them, None of them, or maybe the people of America, I don't get how you can use "we" when the "we" that was responsible in a lot of these cases doesn't exist anymore, or is no longer a serious factor in making decisions.
Mac Allah said:
why should we go after sadam and not other evil dictators are we going to liberate the world.. are we going to go into every country to free the people or are we content with iraq..
I hope we can continue to liberate countries in dire need. if however, we stop at Iraq, it is still better then nothing, although it looks pretty bad. Right now focus has been placed on North Korea (they need liberation as well) and there weapons programs. I would rather we worry about famine in North Korea, but if a ruler can watch his country soak in poverty then it would probably be best if we took away his nuclear weapons as well. Because of what has been in the works, North Korea has already agreed to freeze all of it's weapons programs for the time being. Sometimes progress
IS a slow process.