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Wilma_Hum
Or maybe:
Reason #1 (Iraq). Saddam was one of the most evil dictators in the world.
He was directly responsible for over a million people dieing.
He had most of the world believe he had WMD.
He would no comply with the agreements he made at the end of Gulf War I.
He tried to assonate a standing president of the United States.
Reason #2: (Afghanistan).
The Taliban terrorized there own people and supported and defended a group who declared war on the United States and made multiple attacks on its interest culminating to an attack the killed almost 3000 civilians.
My stance:
I don’t think it is in the best interest of the United States to turn a blind eye to any group that wages war on us and kills our civilians. To take no action against those who harbor and protect those who are at war against us seams to me to invite more of the same.
I did not nor do I support any action that is taking place in Iraq. But to accept any reason that makes Bush/America look evil and ignore all reasons that give any validation to Bush’s actions, in my opinion, can only be the result of one sided bias thinking.
I find it really really hard to believe that a bunch of people living in Afghanistan with a couple of AK47s have the brains and the tools to pull off something like 9/11.
They claimed they've found a couple of abandoned cars with Microsoft Flight Simulator packages in them parked near the airport. I was in NYC when all this happened and I'm well informed of everything. I have a cousin, crazy about airplanes and becoming a pilot, who used that software for ages, and now that he's in flight school he can hardly fly a small 6 passenger 1 engine plane. Come on now, how could've they learned to fly a gigantic complex commercial airplane like that? No noob can navigate an airplane into a building like that.
You might say they were tall buildings and it was easy to crash a plane into them. What about the plane that crashed into the pentagon? It takes very precise navigations to do that, certainly not the job of someone who used flight simulator. The navigation system, precise banking, adjusting the speed, adjusting the decline speed. Watch some landing videos of airplanes, even the pros are off by a noticable distance when landing. This was certainly not the job of a noob non-pilot.
The taliban didn't kill 3000 civilians. Even if they did, bush killed tens of thousands of civilians, and don't expect to see these numbers in NY1, fox5, CNN, BBC or any other news channel.
Most of the world SUPPLIED those WMD to saddam. They have track of everything they gave him, what he used, where he stored them, and even the parts of Iran saddam targeted with those weapons. Don't tell me they're THAT stupid to just ship off bombs and missiles to saddam and not keep records of what he's been supplied with.
And who was saddam a greater threat to? Iran or USA? Did he share borders with Iran or USA? Imagine if Iran said something like: saddam's a great threat to us, he's attacked us before and we fear he'll do it again, so we'll go into war with them. Wouldn't the entire world rise up against Iran? saddam's gone anyway, why won't they take their troops out? And all that faulty intelligence is one big childish lie. Only an idiot would fall for such a lie. What, the "World power" with all its advanced technology, sattelites, and see-through-walls-cameras and scanners couldn't see into a couple of warehouses? Hah.
israel is killing thousand of innocent people, why won't USA take actions against them? AND they got nuclear wepoans. So who's the greater threat here? Saddam or israel? Plus, how could saddam attack USA? Put all his WMD in a big ship and head off to USA and bomb them? The worst he could do is shoot something in a 500 km distance.
Who wouldn't try and assassinate a US president? What's with all the bodyguards and security when they go off to other countries? What's with all the protests as a welcome? What would make saddam any different?
So what can you conclude from all this? That USA wants to be the evil world dictator and kills anyone who stands in their way. They want to protect themselves from their enemies? Do it in your own land, the place where it's a 14 hour flight from where their troops are now.