SUPilot, we understand that Saddam Hussein's government has slaughtered Kurds. But I'm sorry to say that UN sanctions kill more people in Iraq than the Iraqi government ever has.
And gravteck, you have good points, but some lines need to be drawn here. U.S. involvement in WWII was a direct result of both Pearl Harbor, and the threat to American interests in the Pacific. The US declared war on nations in WWII. We can't do that in the case of 9/11, because there isn't a nation to declare war on it. Instead we've got a 'global network of terrorism' and an 'axis of evil.' So instead of a defined war, now the US government has the authority to KILL anyone, anywhere, if we're so inclined to believe that they pose a threat to American interests. No trials, no detainment, no warning: the CIA and the US military can put a gun to anyone's head, or a missile to anyone's vehicle (some Yemen pie, anyone?) and get away with it.
The one thing that makes your arguement invalid, gravteck, is the lack of connection between Iraq and September 11th. If a special team of Iraqi commandos had piloted those planes into the towers under orders from the Iraqi government, I'd be all gung-ho for the invasion of Iraq. But that's not the case.
Read this, if you want to talk about the deaths of September 11th, or biological threats, or gassing Kurds:
One World News Service (you might have to click it twice).
500,000 dead Iraqi children, from starvation because of sanctions... hmmm.
PLEASE READ: MY POINT
The fact is, I don't give a damn if Saddam Hussein is a raving lunatic or not. He may have gassed tens of thousands of Kurds, and I don't feel great about that, but in today's world it's not the job of the U.S. government to worry about that. The only way bio/chem weapons will hit the air, is if we provoke a war. It's the Iraqi people's job to control their government, not ours. People die everywhere, all the time, from millions of different reasons, but the media and the government focuses our attention in one direction for its own purposes. Millions of people are dying from HIV/AIDS, while the U.S. military budget swells to 396 BILLION dollars. 2,600,000 died from HIV/AIDS in 1999 (this is a
LINK to the US govt report stating that figure)... I wonder what the number will be this year? Meanwhile, we spend the fruits of a great nation on bullets and bombs. War only brings more death to the world.
--Disgruntled and Nostalgic Crazed Posting Bro!--