Replying to 2 wrongs don't make a right

have all the pro war people on this site forgotten the old saying 'two wrongs don't make a right'. I think that this is particularly applicable in the situation of the war in Iraq. Violence begets violence and by the end of this present war, as the president of Egypt said, 'Instead of having on Bin Laden, we will have 100'. This war is the epitome of horribly short sighted foreign policy, for every terrorist you kill you make terrorists of his children and you are not going to kill just terrorists, the nature of war is that innocent people are killed as well and their children are then prime targets for terrorist recruiters.

I'll admit that Saddam Hussein is a monster but please stop claiming that you are 'liberating' the Iraqi people. No-one gave a shite about the Iraqi people until it was in their interests to do so. in fact, the US government probably killed more innocent Iraqis over the last 12 years with their insistence to impose sanctions on vital medicines than Saddam Hussein killed in his entire reign. I think the figure is, conservatively, 20,000 people every year since the first Gulf war. Add them all up and you have 240,000 Iraqis killed by the policies of the US government. Anyway, i'll get down off me soapbox now.


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