The original basis from the Bush Bullshit House for the attack on Iraq was based on overwhelming evidence of the accumulation of WMD's, the now ever-so-fashionable reference to military munitions. As we've seen since then, none were found and the testimony before Congress was one lie after the other.
Today we're advised by Anonymous Commenter the reason for attacking Iraq was because Hussein had murdered a million people. That surprised me as I'm not sure that many Kurds even exist on the planet.
So that was interesting. As soon as I hear wild numbers like that my first thought is Fox News. Sure as hell, the number of Kurds killed in the the most infamous gas attack was between 5,000 and 7,000. That's brutal, sure enough, but it's small change next to the 50,000 to 60,000 Indians who died at Bhopal, India, and America didn't do anything to the CEO of Union Carbide. (He was found guilty in India but America would not extradite him so he didn't show. Zero penalty.) Any moral imperative to attack Hussein on the basis of genocide, willful or otherwise, doesn't hold much weight.
Citations:
Halabja gas attack (Wiki)
Bhopal disaster (Wiki)
Warren Anderson lives in luxury to this day (Wiki)
People making such claims regarding humanitarian concerns are the same ones who shot down the public health option for insurance. Their concerns about humanitarianism seem to come at very convenient times.
The estimate of the murders was exaggerated by two hundred times but that's the way of Fox News, the White House, white guys when measuring the penis, and cops when they tell you the street value of dope. "Oh yah, we got a couple of pounds of prime reefer. It's worth (cough) at least twenty million dollars on the street."
There's one rationalization after the other for killing a shitload of people as the documented dead from the invasion Iraq may well have hit a million by now. I saw that estimate once. That includes those who died as a result of the bombing, etc and in the anarchy that followed and continues today. (I don't have a strong estimate on the actual number of dead. The number I quoted is on the high end but there's probably no way of knowing for sure given all the cover-ups.)
Citations:
195,000 dead (Iraq Body Count)
500,000 dead (Huffington Post)
Casualties of the Iraq War (Wiki)
In each Middle Eastern country where the US could jack up a reason to do it, the strongman running the place has been killed and the country has gone to chaos in the aftermath. The same pattern was repeated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and, by proxy, Egypt. The first three countries are now ranked within the ten most corrupt countries in the world. There hasn't been a working democracy established anywhere.
Mission accomplished. Only costs being one shitload of dead people and American integrity. But the beauty part is there will be some sweet deals on Asian heroin when there's so much more coming out of Afghanistan now. The mission is so well accomplished.
Today we're advised by Anonymous Commenter the reason for attacking Iraq was because Hussein had murdered a million people. That surprised me as I'm not sure that many Kurds even exist on the planet.
So that was interesting. As soon as I hear wild numbers like that my first thought is Fox News. Sure as hell, the number of Kurds killed in the the most infamous gas attack was between 5,000 and 7,000. That's brutal, sure enough, but it's small change next to the 50,000 to 60,000 Indians who died at Bhopal, India, and America didn't do anything to the CEO of Union Carbide. (He was found guilty in India but America would not extradite him so he didn't show. Zero penalty.) Any moral imperative to attack Hussein on the basis of genocide, willful or otherwise, doesn't hold much weight.
Citations:
Halabja gas attack (Wiki)
Bhopal disaster (Wiki)
Warren Anderson lives in luxury to this day (Wiki)
People making such claims regarding humanitarian concerns are the same ones who shot down the public health option for insurance. Their concerns about humanitarianism seem to come at very convenient times.
The estimate of the murders was exaggerated by two hundred times but that's the way of Fox News, the White House, white guys when measuring the penis, and cops when they tell you the street value of dope. "Oh yah, we got a couple of pounds of prime reefer. It's worth (cough) at least twenty million dollars on the street."
There's one rationalization after the other for killing a shitload of people as the documented dead from the invasion Iraq may well have hit a million by now. I saw that estimate once. That includes those who died as a result of the bombing, etc and in the anarchy that followed and continues today. (I don't have a strong estimate on the actual number of dead. The number I quoted is on the high end but there's probably no way of knowing for sure given all the cover-ups.)
Citations:
195,000 dead (Iraq Body Count)
500,000 dead (Huffington Post)
Casualties of the Iraq War (Wiki)
In each Middle Eastern country where the US could jack up a reason to do it, the strongman running the place has been killed and the country has gone to chaos in the aftermath. The same pattern was repeated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and, by proxy, Egypt. The first three countries are now ranked within the ten most corrupt countries in the world. There hasn't been a working democracy established anywhere.
Mission accomplished. Only costs being one shitload of dead people and American integrity. But the beauty part is there will be some sweet deals on Asian heroin when there's so much more coming out of Afghanistan now. The mission is so well accomplished.
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