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While I don't want to justify the invasion (or rather the motivation behind it and it’s actual execution), Sadam’s regime was OBJECTIVELY worse than the Ukraini
by ztrww 4y ago
While I don't want to justify the invasion (or rather the motivation behind it and it’s actual execution), Sadam’s regime was OBJECTIVELY worse than the Ukrainian government. They are not even on the same level, the Ukrainian government may be thoroughly corrupt but they did not murder hundreds of thousands of their own people (using both conventional and chemical weapons).
The real crime was propping up Sadam in the 80’s when US did not see him as a threat and living him alive in 1991 (which just prove that US had zero actual concerns about the wellbeing and freedom of the people of Iraq in 2003)
- throwaway_4ever 4y ago> living him alive in 1991 what? 1991 was the same decision to make as 2003, except they chose restraint. When they flipped in 2003, almost everyone universally agrees, including you > the US war in Iraq was unjustified it was a bad decision, thus 1991 was the right move.
- ztrww 4y ago> except they chose restraint No they chose to instigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings and then left the rebels out to dry. Thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of Iraqis were killed by Sadam's forces. The equivalent of 1991 (obviously on a very different scale) would be the Allies stopping at the border of Germany in 1944 (after liberating France) and allowing Hitler to stay in power (while simultaneously claiming that it’s the job of the German people to remove him).
- nebulousthree 4y agoTeam America: World Police
- sudosysgen 4y agoIt doesn't matter though. Both invasions were based on very similar lies. Just because in Iraq the lies were 10% true and in Ukraine 3% true doesn't make any difference. The invasion itself was a far far worse crime that supporting Saddam materially.