Up to half a million people died in Iraq. Why ICC silent?
Today we remember the victims in Iraq of US selfish war
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Meh, Saddam was responsible for upwards a million deaths. Iraq War was poorly executed and led to many attoricities, but Iraq wasn't exactly a happy place before the invasion. There's still a chance for long-term success. It took Korea like 50 years to achieve democratic consolidation.
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You are moving the goalpost, lbrl. Did we invade to to get rid of a dictator or because Iraq supposedly had WMDs?
Meh, Saddam was responsible for upwards a million deaths. Iraq War was poorly executed and led to many attoricities, but Iraq wasn't exactly a happy place before the invasion. There's still a chance for long-term success. It took Korea like 50 years to achieve democratic consolidation.
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Meh, Saddam was responsible for upwards a million deaths. Iraq War was poorly executed and led to many attoricities, but Iraq wasn't exactly a happy place before the invasion. There's still a chance for long-term success. It took Korea like 50 years to achieve democratic consolidation.
iraq had advanced plumbing while koreans were peeing in buckets kept in the kitchen. Americans destroyed infrastructure that set them back.
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Depends on who you ask. The intelligence community knew there were no WMDs in Iraq; Bush Administration supprezzed this and insisted publicly there were WMDs.
So the Bush admin wanted to remove Saddam. Many average Americans believed we were both removing WMDs and removing Sadam and democratizing a country.
But to quote LTC Chamberlain from Gods and Generals:
“Freeing the 8lives wasn't a war aim when this began, but war changes things. It sorts things out…”
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Beyond gods and generals, this is a topic covered by Liddell Hart and more contemporary folks like Harry Summers. War aims are important but they can change as you go. In WWII we declared war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and then our number one priority was stopping Gitler.
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You are moving the goalpost, rightie. Did we invade to to get rid of a dictator or because Iraq supposedly had WMDs?
Meh, Saddam was responsible for upwards a million deaths. Iraq War was poorly executed and led to many attoricities, but Iraq wasn't exactly a happy place before the invasion. There's still a chance for long-term success. It took Korea like 50 years to achieve democratic consolidation.
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Therefore Iraq had WMDs?
For the record though, since I’m assuming you were only a couple years old when the invasion began: the war had bipartisan support, but it was a notable conservative majority pushing for it, enthusiastically, with the moderate democrats supporting it.
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What? That was a response to the “librl” comment. Are you okay?
Therefore Iraq had WMDs?
For the record though, since I’m assuming you were only a couple years old when the invasion began: the war had bipartisan support, but it was a notable conservative majority pushing for it, enthusiastically, with the moderate democrats supporting it. -
So this proves that Iraq had WMDs and then the US moved to other goals?
Logic is not political scientists' strongest suit.
Beyond gods and generals, this is a topic covered by Liddell Hart and more contemporary folks like Harry Summers. War aims are important but they can change as you go. In WWII we declared war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and then our number one priority was stopping Gitler.
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I’m really asking, are you alright?
So this proves that Iraq had WMDs and then the US moved to other goals?
Logic is not political scientists' strongest suit.
Beyond gods and generals, this is a topic covered by Liddell Hart and more contemporary folks like Harry Summers. War aims are important but they can change as you go. In WWII we declared war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and then our number one priority was stopping Gitler. -
Good job seeing the tree while missing the forest. Yeah you're okay.
What? That was a response to the “librl” comment. Are you okay?
Therefore Iraq had WMDs?
For the record though, since I’m assuming you were only a couple years old when the invasion began: the war had bipartisan support, but it was a notable conservative majority pushing for it, enthusiastically, with the moderate democrats supporting it.