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How about you ask the people that US soldiers protect, like the people liberated from living under the dictatorship of Saddam, whether they're cool with US sold
by ScipioAfricanus 9y ago
How about you ask the people that US soldiers protect, like the people liberated from living under the dictatorship of Saddam, whether they're cool with US soldiers?
It's so funny to see people ignore all the tremendous amount of good that US soldiers and the military have done in the modern era for different peoples and nations and obsessively focus on the relatively few individual bad actors and examples of clear military wrongdoing. It's naive.
- glibgil 9y agoHow long have you held these jingoistic opinions? The death toll from the American war in Iraq is somewhere between 150,000 to 460,000. Your views are very extreme. You might be radicalized and in need of an intervention
- feralmoan 9y agowhat!?
- glibgil 9y agoI'll explain. OP has a problem where they see the members of the US military as virtuous because they "help" some people. But, militaries kill people which is the worst thing you can do to a person. OP has been radicalized by an ideology that the US military was a good influence in Iraq, but the opposite is true. The US military was very bad for Iraq. They directly and indirectly killed hundreds of thousands of people. This is a big fuck up. When people fuck up, they should apologize or be very quiet. OP is doing the opposite. OP is proud of the US military fucking up Iraq. OP is even claiming that Iraq did not get fucked up, but that it was helped. This is obviously impossible because being killed is not good for you.
- dang 9y agoWhatever valid point you have is neutralized by your crossing into personal attack and snark. Those things violate the site guidelines, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do those things here.
- EngineerBetter 9y agoI used to teach jiu-jitsu to an Iraqi Kurd asylum seeker in London. Despite his own people being gassed, he preferred Saddam. If you kept on the right side of the powers-that-be, you could run businesses and have a life. This is in contrast to the anarchy that ensued after the West's invasion.
- oh_sigh 9y agoIraqi Kurdistan hasn't had many of the security issues that southern Iraq has had. I assume he was a Kurdistan not living in the north? Every Kurd from the north that I know prefers their current situation to when sadaam was gassing them
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- EngineerBetter 9y agoNope, he was living in the north. Sadly I forget exactly where.
- tomcooks 9y agoThanks USA for keeping bases on my country's sea and soil, meddling with internal politics and also thank you very much for the random civilian accidents when your kind soldiers are too drunk to, at least, be kind to the land you are raping for your own good. Some more wine, kind sir? Blah.
- andrepd 9y agoAh yes, the freedom army, "liberating" peoples from their oil.