There were plenty of issues during Saddam's regime, and he
didn't really make an effort to hide it at all. Basically just
about any minority or even majority that weren't quite the Sunni he
favored received the short end of the stick from him. A lot of the
current power struggles and chaos happening within Iraq stems
directly from the division of society that he created with his
abusive policies.
He rule with an iron fist, but it is still better than now where
everyone just die and there is no peace
This is not to mention the number of disastrous wars he led his
country into with Iran and Kuwait, his genocide of the Kurds and
other nice little actions. Hundreds of thousands of people died
needless deaths under his regime.
The war may not be solely started because of saddam himself. It
is really border dispute tat has been ongoing many centuries before
saddam rule. If u wanna look further into the history, it is really
the british tat seperate the country at insensitive areas and
leaving abruptly without settling any differences. Any diplomatic
method were rendered useless in the meeting on UN.
Kuwait used to be part of iraq, when british etc encourage them to
break away from iraq. It is really something like china and taiwan
now. The only difference is china has a veto power in the UN
About chemical weopons, both iran and iraq countries use it against
one another.
Also he was playing a dangerous game of chicken with just about
everyone else. Despite many calls for him to come clean with WMDs,
he kept up this cat and mouse game that eventually gave his enemies
a reason to invade him. His' bluff got played, and he lost. He made
many statements that Iraqi had NO WMDs, however he played this
dangerous game of brinksman ship that prevented this from actually
being confirmed by constantly denying proper inspection.
Arr... but he did come clean and does tat help in anything ?
Everybody thought he is playing a cat and mouse game and nobody
believe him. Did he have WMD ? He say he do't and he really
don't. But u all insist he do and say he is playing games
etc. Wat is the difference between tis and framing ? Now North
korea says he got WMD, a NUCLEAR WEOPON, with techology tat can
even flew past japan, and wat does US do ? Please explain the
double standard
Unfortunately he hasn't been known to be the most rational of
leaders to begin with, it is very likely he never had a sound plan
to go on when he decided to play around with this UN Disarmament
policy
he played the game and his lost. Unfortunate for the Iraqi
people who have traditionally suffered because of him. Other
regimes in the Middle East may be oppressive, but at the very least
their leaders made sound strategic decisions that kept the level of
madness at bay. Saddam led Iraq into many nutty adventures to
improve his stance in the Middle East at the cost of much Iraqi
lives, and he has a great habit of pursuing policies that quite
obviously put his own people as quite expendable to the ends.
U just claim he "play a game" "play a game" when he is serious
and he really have no WMD. US itself had admitted Iraq have no WMD,
they falsified records and exaggerate statistic to claim Iraq have
WMD. The only people who play games r the US. They lie on almost
everything on the war and now u push all the blame to the victim
who had not lied anything about its WMD. If u claim he is playing a
game, u have to prove it have WMD. Otherwise there is no game to
play with, unless telling the truth is a game to u
Talking about rational leaders, North korea is far more irrational
than saddam. Talking about playing games, north korea play it
better by attending and not attending talk, committing and not
committing promises wetc. Wat happened to him ? There r tons of
other nations tat r far worse like myanmar, fiji or even nepal
morachy. Do the US invade them ? Is irrational leaders by your own
standard a reason for invasion ?
As such I am not sure if the Iraqi people now are worse off. At
the very worst it could be argued that with the way things are
their plight now receives worldwide attention and is something that
is not ignored
unlike Sudan, Somalia, Gronzy that all those other
places which seriously need aid as well. And more importantly now
they have the opportunity to shape the kind of Iraq that they want
(unfortunately many different factions have different ideas on
it).
Oh com'on nobody is even claiming tat lives r better now in
iraq. Wat is the end result now ? Total chaos. Wat is it like in
saddam time ? A little lack of diplomancy but peaceful. The wars
etc happened much further in the past, before the first gulf war
and they use tat as a rationale for the first gulf war. No
authrocities happened between the first and second gulf war. Why
attack them again ? It is like jailing a person 2 times over the 1
theft made
The US may not have the most altruistic reasons for invading
Iraqi, but I think it's a very big stretch of the reality to
suppose that the Saddam regime is preferable to what is happening
now. It is only preferable to the Sunni minority who prospered
under him, that's for sure. Unfortunately there never was an easy
solution for Iraq the moment Saddam took over all those years back
given Middle Eastern politics one knows that no matter what route
you take blood will be shed.
Lets put it tis way. The few years just before iraq was
attacked, things r going well (compared to now). The only
athrocities u mentioned happened before the first gulf war and
saddam never did any wars etc after tat. Now he got attacked based
on past charges and reasons from the previous war. Is tat even fair
? And worse still, US attack despite UN resistance. Is it even
legal ?
Is the whole war a mistake? It's a mixed bag. Removing Saddam is
certainly the right thing to do
however the US made a critical
error in the days following his fall when they decided to bypass
the tribal leaders that offered to control Iraq in his place, which
would have cut down a lot on the infighting or even avoided it all
together.
Removing saddam and wat ? Nobody is really controlling iraq now.
Is tat better ? Tell me wat benefits does the war give ?To me it
seems all the cons and no pros.
