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Using this logic, the U.S. should have invaded Iraq
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We did.
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established torture chambers to dismember opponents
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We did. Mostly, however, we just took to using Saddam's old facilities. Abu Graib, remember?
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rape squads to deal with the women and children
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We did. What did you think Blackwater was for?
Blackwater: Stop Acting Surprised - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled
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and sprinkle chemical and biological weapons on the factions that didn't want to cooperate.
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We did. What do you think atomised Depleted Uranium does, cures lung cancer?
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In case you haven't realized it yet, the deaths in Iraq are being caused by Muslim extremists. That's right...Muslim vs. Muslim.
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Nowadays, yes. Previously, however, a lot of those casualties came about as a result of the fact that when you drop 2,000lbs of high explosives into densely built-up residential areas, you wipe out a lot of civvies. It's that whole "blast radius" thing, terribly inconvenient.
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Most of the deaths in the entire conflict have been Muslim against Muslim.
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Source?
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The United States has given the Iraqi people the chance of a lifetime
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Yes, the chance to live in a chemically-denuded wasteland that's lost something on the order of 10% of its' breeding-age males, with little or no electricity, clean water, education, roads, or jobs. A real favor we did, that, blowing up their country and several hundred thousand of their people.
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the opportunity to create a civilized government that is responsive to the needs of its people.
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Because that's been -so- successful everywhere else it's been tried...Germany? Japan? Fine, fire up the
Enola Gay. Until then, all this "bringing democracy" twaddle is just self-congradulatory hot air.
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Thousands of American citizens have been killed and horribly wounded for this opportunity.
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No, thousands of American citizens have been killed and horribly wounded to enhance the wealth and power of our entrenched political classes and their knob-nobblers in the corporate/lobbying world. If you seriously think that any of these clowns in Washington, Republican or Democrat, give 1/3 of a rat's turd about some poor people half a world away [i]who cannot vote to re-elect them[i], the primary concern of all politicians, you're crazy. If you think they -want- these people, who have very little reason to be fond of us, actually -having- a representative and responsive government that does what it's constituents want, you're out of your friggin' mind.