Iraq War Miserable Failure
Feb 13th 2007CarlIraq & Political & USA
Weapons of mass destruction. Freedom. Two arguments George Bush has been using to back the necessity of the Iraq war.
Well, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. With daily bomb attacks, kidnappings and political murders are Iraqis really freer than under Saddam?
In on sentence: the Iraq war has been a miserable failure.
Freedom remains the main argument for the war. However we can wonder how free Iraqis actually are with the increasing violence (bomb attacks, killings, kidnappings and so on) and frequent curfews.
Moreover the Abu Ghraib scandal (torture of prisoners) and other human rights abuses by the US army makes me ask one question: how does it make Iraqis freer? Sure, there were serious human right abuses under Saddam Hussein. Now the difference is that it’s not Saddam Hussein’s army or police committing them, it’s the US army as well as criminals.
The public opinion has finally shifted also in the United States: 68% of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the Iraq war (source: CBS News). The public opinion begins to be reflected also in the political debate as a result of the US mid-term elections.
Bush has only bad options I have to say. Withdrawing from Iraq would leave the country insecure and would leave it in a civil war. The current situation isn’t good either as the army isn’t succeeding in stopping the violence.
The war shouldn’t have been started in the first place.
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KLQ on 14 Feb 2007 at 17:03 #
I couldn’t agree more.
JRDemon on 16 Feb 2007 at 17:22 #
You have brought up facts that many know. You seem to be searching for a solution… I really do not believe one exists… I think we have started a fire (along with civil unrest and a countries growing pains as it tries to find its voice) this fire will burn everything… after all the death, horrible acts, and hundreds thousands dead… maybe the forest will grow anew… sad fact is… these are not trees I am talking about they are people, children, mothers and fathers…. but change has never been an easy thing for any element of the earth, including its species that inhabit it.
If you suggest that I am heartless you might be correct… but nothing and no one can stop what will happen in Iraq… we need to leave and let them kill each other, as we fought our own war with the British (twice no less) and as we did with each other (civil war). Change IS bloody no matter what way we want to look at it.
No matter what this will not end pretty… I think you know that. This is the way things have always worked since the beginning of man… history proves it.
Carl (admin) on 16 Feb 2007 at 19:04 #
JRDeamon - You are probably right in that there is no painless solution to the Iraq situation. I honestly don’t know what of all the possible options would be the least bad.