Except for the oil thing we have done all the following in Iraq, not to the same extent, but that doesnt justify shit.Winnow wrote:So? That jusifies invading a country, raping its women, stealing it's treasures, setting their oil fields on fire? Perhaps you should read:The Rape of Kuwait: The True Story of Iraqi Atrocities Against a Civilian PopulationThess wrote:Kuwait was slant drilling for oil into Iraq
Slant drilling = August 8: Iraq announces that Kuwait has become its 19th province.
eh fuck'em they're just arabs. We should have stayed out of it...August 2, 1990, the day Iraq invaded Kuwait, will go down in the annals of Kuwaiti history as a black day. It was a day that shattered lives and the nation. It marked the beginning of over seven-month long occupation during which survival itself became a nightmarish ordeal.
International telephone lines were snapped. Local television and radio stations were taken over. Attempts to make contacts abroad involved the risk of capture and execution. Most information about conditions inside Kuwait came from those who had managed to flee the country and find refuge elsewhere. Their reports were chilling.
'Freedom', 'Civil Rights', 'Human Rights' -- were words that had lost their meaning. While waking up alive was reason enough to give thanks, it also meant not knowing what new horrors the day might bring. Those who left home did so with the knowledge that they might never return -- the entire city was crawling with snipers and landmines. Not that home provided a haven of safety and security. The Iraqi forces had the free run of the country. They barged into private homes to loot, plunder, torture, rape and execute at will. Any resistance was met with a merciless display of strength of superior numbers and weapons.
Water desalination and purification plants were destroyed. Food and water supplies to the Kuwaiti people were cut off as Saddam Hussein diverted them to his own armies. The ever-present possibility of chemical weapons attacks meant having to sew home-made gas masks.
As in any war, the children were the worst victims. Their world had changed overnight. The invasion and subsequent occupation of their tiny nation came as a bolt from the blue. Before the invasion, Kuwait's crime rate ranked among the lowest in the world. Now they were surrounded by images of death and destruction. Even the sun didn't seem to shine as before. The oil wells set afire by the Iraqis belched thick black smoke that clouded their lives like a bad dream they couldn't seem to wake up from. Sleep provided no respite, not with the constant raging of machine guns and tanks so perilously close.
The invaders gutted all that they could not kill or take with them. Parliamentary institutions, government buildings, the airport, major hotels, clubs, playgrounds and recreation centres were ransacked and destroyed. The beaches were used as arsenals for Iraqi arms. Some of the most fashionable residential suburbs were taken over by the Iraqi troops. Those that did not suit their purposes were torched. Even mosques and places of worship were not spared.
Because of Iraq there are more terrorist that hate america. Because of Iraq the "war on terror" took a major defeat.
We should have stayed in afghanistan, put the money we put into Iraq into Afghanistan, and hunted down Al Qaeda, not governments,
Of course, hunting down the real terrorist wouldnt offer as many big ass explotions and immidete results, it would take lots time,and effort
But of course, thats what Mccain, Gore or anyone else would have done.
If a president of a government tried to kill your father, and you had the perfict opportunity to take revenge, would you not do it? no matter at who's expense (800 american soldiers and thousands of innocent iraqis)
