I agree with what J. said on his previous posts.
The main issue is that the US have justified the War in Iraq in making people believe it was directly linked to the 9/11 attack, which is wrong.
Bin Laden was responsible, he was in Alfghanistan. So allies have decided to help the US to capture him. By the way, that why French soldiers were sent to Alghanistan. (We nowadays know that Bush was more willing to know where the Bin Laden family was..
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And suddently, we've heard about Iraq. Iraq, why Iraq?
In Europe, we've said: okay, Iraq, why not, Saddam is a threat for Iraqi people. Right, we have to help them, even if a major part of their population still supports Saddam. So let's work with the UN (United Nations for those who've forgotten what it is..
). The US claimed Iraq was a threat for them, and they have to hurry up. Have we miss something?
Actually, no. But it was sure we were liars and we didn't want to help the US to get rid of the sudden "MEGATHREAT"... We all said: "Allright if you want, we are the BAD one". And Bush begun to find his so called allies, a group which brings together those who have no choice and those who have really no choice to say no.
SO, let'sssssss fight!
Let's remind you that this operation supposed to free the Iraqi people has mostly kill them (No I forgot, the aim was to pick up the Weapons of Mass Destruction). When you really want to get rid of a group of people you don't rase entire cities...The War in Iraq has become a kind of giant advertisment for US people which said "Folks, listen, we are going to make your life safer, we're are killing the enemies, so give Baby Bush a giant hug!"
Yep, Bush is a "War President", as he said with a beautiful smile on TV. Yeah as if war was..great..
I live in Normandy, all the cities were destroyed at 80 or 90% during the WWII: even if I'm just 21, I can tell you that when I walked down the main street of my city I can't forget that there's only two or three old houses reamaining from the time before the war. It's like a scar in the landscap.
But I agree war is sometimes the only one option: when the country is INVADED for example. In this case, it was. And we were asking for help because we were near from the cliff.
Hopefully, we haven't thank the US the same way the Iraqi people did. And, why? Just think about it..
tony_montana said:
@Deweyrules-I don't agree with torture under ANY circumstances, even if it's a terrorist who is being tortured. BUT, no matter what you or anyone else thinks, I believe we have the right to go after these terrorist bastards because of the thousands of people they killed on September 11. To me, they don't deserve a trial, they deserve to be hunted down and killed.
This war has developed in Iraq anti-US feelings. So, Zarqawi who was already killing Iraqi people, has renamed his group 'Al qaida in Iraq' after the US invasion. The guy is nowadays dead, and it's good, but at the begining he had nothing to do with Bin laden. But this guy has killed innocent people and he deserved what happened. But we don't have to forget the whole story ...Zarqawi is not involved in 9/11.
Just a last thing:
During the WWII two brothers of my grandmother were executed in public place because they have destroyed a train which was supposed to bring, few hours later, Jewish people to "Concentration Camps".
On the record their mother received, it was written 'responsible for terrorist acts against nation'.
It was during occupation. Those "terrorists" are nowadays called 'résistants" and those who survived were decorated.
I absolutely don't want to justify the attacks which have killed people in Iraq. I really don't. The situation is different. But nothing is totally bad or totally good. The truth is never owned by a guy. It's just to say there are always different way to see events. Be carefully not to be fooled...
Think about it...