Are Iraqi's Better Off?
I was thinking about this today. Are the Iraqi's currently better off? Water, food, electricity, and other necesities aren't gaurenteed on a day to day basis. There is violence in their streats daily. I'm sure everyone in the country knows someone who has been killed by this war. Iraq seems to be on the middle of a civil war that will erupt into a power vacume for many years. And it's civilians that are suffereing are being lumped in with "terrorists" (used lightly) when it comes to talking about them.
What makes an Iraqi life worth less than an American one? If an occuping power was doing a forced regiem change in your country and had killed many people you know would you not fight back? If you fought back is it fair to label you as a terrorist? Were our founding fathers that fought for our freedom from the British "terrorists"? They didn't follow the rules of war, they aimed for officers, they didn't line up like the british to fight head to head. Instead they hid in trees and pecked them off one at a time.
If you back an animal into a corner it will fight (and no i'm not calling iraqi's animals, i'm calling people animals).
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