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Lord Lucan
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Re: Peace In Our Time
Jan 02, 2006, 19:31
Absolutely. If the pursuit of democratizing countries which are currently dictatorships was really the motive why is there no 'democratic' coalition army going into the totalitarian regimes of Zimbabwe, North Korea, Iran, Syria, China, Saudi Arabia, and so on? Because they either have leaders willing to do business with the West, so our governments turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses, or they have no significant resources which we are interested in, or they are too militarily threatening to invade in the first place. Iraq was about oil.

However, if we ignore what seems to me the blindingly obvious motivation for the invasion of Iraq and give the coalition the massively deluded benefit of the doubt and assume the invasion was just about toppling Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people from oppression; the end STILL doesn't justify the means. The invasion was shockingly badly planned, and there was no plan once Saddam was toppled and no plan for withdrawing troops. The lack of military and civilian plans and strategies at all stages of this occupation has lead to unnecessary loss of life on both sides. For example, there were no plans to close Iraq's borders after Saddam was toppled. This alone has been disasterous madness. There seemed to be little or no understanding of the ethnic divisions within Iraq either. Bush and Blair have been winging it all the way. They blundered into Iraq with a gung-ho attitude (the religious sons-of-bitches probably believing that God would take care of the rest; either that or they just didn't give a shit about the Iraqi people) which has left the Iraqi people enormously more vulnerable than needed to be the case.
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