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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Yes of course humanitarisim was the last thing on Bush's mind.
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Yes, of course. major wars are too expensive to be launched for that. Also, there were and are far more dramatic massacres going on - and nobody gave/gives a damnn for them. compared to these, Hussein's terror regime was relatively minor in scale and horror. not to mention that the US often cooperated, supported and kept in power governments in africa, Asia and South and middle America that were committing such massacres, and torturing. The reason why america did like that? The same reasons: Geostrategy, and economic interests, from influencing trade traffic patterns to mining precious rare ores needed in the space industry and computer hightech. Today, access to biologic gene samples with the option to patent and monopolise them, is becoming an major motive, too, namely in the tropical jungle of south america. Or better: it already is a major motive since years - and probably the major drive behind the years long US activities on the South american continent. Drug wars in Columbia - have little to do with it and again serve as a distraction.
And btw, Steam Wake: since years the level of torturing and assassination committed in the name of the current Iraqi government is said to be at least as high as it has been at the best times of Hussein. Many say it even is worse. So, obviously not much has changed. You still have torture of the kind before. you still have death squads and arbitrary arrests at night. You still have people disappearing - like before. what you also have now, since 2003, if several terror groups operating in Iraq, bombs in the street killing scores, religious fanatics waiting for their time, political and ethnical/religious groups cleaning old bills - and no Saddam Hussein to keep all that in check like he did.
Now go back to 2003 and 2004 in the forum. You will find several threads where me and some others predicted right this and no other scenario. The result was a board in flames (at least at times). i alos predicted that sooner or later the US would have enough of it, sneak out through a backwindow of opportunity when it opens, and leave it all behind as it is - but running a garrison somewhere nevertheless for years to come that serves as bodyguard for Us companies that were brought into Iraq after Saddam's fall. We have that, plus mercenaries.