06-19-2004, 04:50 AM
Honestly, I have my doubts about Iraq. I do know that Hussein funded terrorists, that he payed the families of Palestinians who blew themselves up, that he tried to assassinate our president (Bush 41), that he aimed missiles at Israel and threatened to fire several times. Ok only the president thing directly involes the US, but when do we step up and when do we turn a blind eye? As the world's only superpower, we do have a responsibility to do our best to keep the world stable. Yes we do have something to gain from preventing world war 3, but so does everyone dontcha think? It's just that not everyone has the power to prevent it.
If that's not enough for you, as it might not be for me... The fact that Hussein has killed so, so many people and that he truly is a cruel and evil man, as were his sons is enough for me to feel like maybe we did the right thing by getting rid of him...having researched Iraq and looked at interviews from people who lived there and escaped, I know of the torture chambers, the rape, women having wire attached to their nipples and being shocked... horrible things. Not to mention the use of biological weapons against the Kurds. He had to go.
The problem now is how to keep a nation from plunging into civil war over religious differences (oddly enough, within the same religion) and not end up so involved that it appears that the US is taking over Iraq... I really do believe that this is our intention, as it was in Afghanistan which is doing fairly well right now.
If that's not enough for you, as it might not be for me... The fact that Hussein has killed so, so many people and that he truly is a cruel and evil man, as were his sons is enough for me to feel like maybe we did the right thing by getting rid of him...having researched Iraq and looked at interviews from people who lived there and escaped, I know of the torture chambers, the rape, women having wire attached to their nipples and being shocked... horrible things. Not to mention the use of biological weapons against the Kurds. He had to go.
The problem now is how to keep a nation from plunging into civil war over religious differences (oddly enough, within the same religion) and not end up so involved that it appears that the US is taking over Iraq... I really do believe that this is our intention, as it was in Afghanistan which is doing fairly well right now.
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