cathochic wrote:War is Hell - There is no question.
There is little mention, however, of the tens of thousands of shiites and kurds who were killed by the sunni baath party. Those families suffered in silence, with their relatives buried in mass graves, while we tried "sanctions."
The Iraqis deserve a chance. What 's done is done. We need to move forward.
It is not our job as a country to "punish" Hussein 20 yrs. later for what he did to shiites and kurds, that is their business. After all, the USA PROVIDED the arms and munitions and finances needed to carry out all of those attrocities.
It IS our job to ensure the health, safety, and education of the people in our country. This becomes increasingly difficult when all of our money is spent providing these things for Iraqis.
Iraqis DO deserve a chance, but they need to figure out a way to creatre that chance, don't they? It is totally inappropriate to send Americans to Iraq, to kill 100,000 Iraqis, just so they can have a "chance." Fuck that.