March 11th, 2003, 10:02 AM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by QBrigid:
As for the ability to throw off the oppression of Saddam, it is possible that enough people do not wish another government. When the Poles wanted freedom, many gave their lives and security to achieve it. The students in Tienamen Square knew what they were facing when they protested the government.
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Well in the end of the Gulf War the people did rebel against Saddam. Two things happened
1) The Basra massacre. Saddam's most potent enemy, the conscript soldiers of ethnic miniorities sent to Kuwait, were completely annhilated by Norman as they fled back to Basra.
2) The Republican Guard was allowed to squash any uprisings without fear of suffering the same fate as the conscripted army.
Nobody cared of the fate of the Iraqi people at that time. The aim of the Gulf War was not to otherthrow Saddam. That justification for an attack on Iraq came up somewhere between he's developing Weapons of Mass Destruction and I've got lots of bombs, might as well use em.
Askan
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