" I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time."
I am certain he isn't refering to all the money Hussan spent during that time building 7 new palaces for himself or paying off people well like himself. If you have enough money to build seven new huge gold decorated palaces why can you not feed you own people? Sorry logic does not apply in his judgements.
"If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today."
Instead we would be happly watching as more Iraqs are starved and murdered while the bathist party enriched themselves even more and they restarted the chemical and biological weapons programs that they themselve said they would start over after the sactions you wanted to lift were lifted.
but we didn't wage war on Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people. we waged war on Iraq to distract the American people from our failure to capture Osama Bin Laden. we waged war on Iraq because our president is a megalomaniacal zealot. we waged war on Iraq based on a pack of bare-faced lies -- lies many of us knew were lies from the outset.
we waged war on Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and the fact that some good may eventually come of it -- and precious little has so far -- does not excuse that fact. we went in without a plan, and now we're stuck there -- unable to leave, but unable to win.
any sane person is glad that Saddam Hussein is out of power. no one is disputing that it's a good thing. but the way we went about it was deplorable, and the reputation of the US has been so badly tarnished by the actions of the current administration that we've lost most of the international support we once had. as an American whose ancestors fought honorably in every American war in history including the Revolution, whose roots extend back to the very first European settlers, i've never been so ashamed to be an American. glad, yes. i'm always glad to be an American, and i'm entirely conscious of how fortunate i am to have grown up in this country.
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I am certain he isn't refering to all the money Hussan spent during that time building 7 new palaces for himself or paying off people well like himself. If you have enough money to build seven new huge gold decorated palaces why can you not feed you own people? Sorry logic does not apply in his judgements.
"If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today."
Instead we would be happly watching as more Iraqs are starved and murdered while the bathist party enriched themselves even more and they restarted the chemical and biological weapons programs that they themselve said they would start over after the sactions you wanted to lift were lifted.
(no subject)
we waged war on Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and the fact that some good may eventually come of it -- and precious little has so far -- does not excuse that fact. we went in without a plan, and now we're stuck there -- unable to leave, but unable to win.
any sane person is glad that Saddam Hussein is out of power. no one is disputing that it's a good thing. but the way we went about it was deplorable, and the reputation of the US has been so badly tarnished by the actions of the current administration that we've lost most of the international support we once had. as an American whose ancestors fought honorably in every American war in history including the Revolution, whose roots extend back to the very first European settlers, i've never been so ashamed to be an American. glad, yes. i'm always glad to be an American, and i'm entirely conscious of how fortunate i am to have grown up in this country.
but right now i can't be proud of it.