nefar559 said:
give it up Nitro, your thesis is hypocritical ... that wasn't why U.S. went to war.
So in the "distant future" there "might" be records that show the United States shared "similar thoughts" with Israel that Saddam killing off the Kurdish resistance would benefit the U.S.
Where is the hypocrisy here? You have mentioned this word a few times already but have yet to explain where it is present. This article doesn't talk about support for the mass killings of Kurdish civilians, but the fight against Kurdish resistance who were armed and allied with Iranians and in return, were killing Iraqi's.
It is not hypocritical for the United States to support a Iranian/Kurdish-Resistance defeat by Iraq, while condemning the massive destruction of Kurdish civilians and villages.
You don't know for a fact, any more than I do the exact reason why the U.S. invaded Iraq. What I can show you is that the United States has claimed a major factor in the invasion was for the liberation of that country. Then I can show you substantial proof that the people of Iraq needed to be liberated. I did this by showing you how civilians were tortured and killed (this includes completely innocent humans by the thousands), his war crimes, and attempts at genocide. There isn't enough bandwidth on the server holding this message board for me to talk about all of the attrocious acts that Saddam has committed throughout his presidency.
nefar559 said:
Nitro, who's going to invade us? becuase we also did bad things.
Tell me this, who is going to invade Russia and China for aiding northern vietnamese to take over Vietnam and to execute the president as a means to spread communism. Who is going to invade Germany for the 35 million people that died under Hitler's reign. Every country in this world has a history, the main difference in this case is that the leader who has committed these horrible acts is still ruling! If Saddam was guilty of gassing 5,000 Kurds in 1988, but was run out of office in 1990, we would not be having this conversation.
To answer your question, no one is going to invade the United States. The reason for this is not so much that we haven't done anything wrong in the past, but think about it; Some of you claim that Bush is a war-feign, well what happens when we are invaded and we start losing the war. With nuclear weapons at the helm of the president, and his finger on the detonator, who do you think is going to fuck with us? That is why we don't fuck with China and it's communist state, because they have 400 nuclear missles and the largest [but weak] army in the world. You look at it like the U.S. is only picking on these little countries, but I like to look at it as the U.S. doing what it can in order to stop communism, terrorism, and evil dictatorship.
There are very few countries in this world that can contend with the United States in hand to hand, air assault, and missle technology, all of which know better then to risk their own country fighting against us. Im sure through the thought process of every dictator who has ever pondered the thought of invading the United States rained flashes of the last time this country was bombed [Japan]. Need I say more?