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> Iraq gov at the time was not at all something people sympathized with, and was widely considered to be corrupt, bullying, aggressive to neighbors, etc. Also
by tablespoon 5y ago
> Iraq gov at the time was not at all something people sympathized with, and was widely considered to be corrupt, bullying, aggressive to neighbors, etc.
Also it routinely violated the human rights of the Iraqi people.
Also, if the Iraq war was a humanitarian disaster, the alternative was not too great either (i.e. akin to choosing to leave a child in the custody of an abusive parent because they're still being provided the bare necessities).
- yucky 5y ago>Also it routinely violated the human rights of the Iraqi people. So did we though.
- tablespoon 5y ago>> Also it routinely violated the human rights of the Iraqi people. > So did we though. Perhaps, but it's not a binary question, but one of kind and degree. People get their human rights violated in the US itself, too, but I don't think anyone could reasonable draw an equivalency to Saddam Hussein's Iraq because of that.