Re: Revisionpunkymunky21September 1 2005, 06:19:45 UTC
Yeah, I thought that was what you meant. Saddam was a Sunni though the majority of people in the country of Iraq are Shiite. After the first Gulf War Bush sr. agreed to back an uprising by the Shiites in the country against Saddam. The Shiites rose up... and America backed out, didn't back them, did nothing. That is where the majority of the "mass graves" came from is that uprising that we fucked up.
Yeah, they're probably in the wrong to support Saddam, I'll give you that much. But oddly enough, they were actually better off in some ways under Saddam then they are today. There were fewer deaths per day, they had electricity more often, and they had more clean water. Now, yes, they were also living under a dictator who would kill people for the hell of it and tourtured those athletes from Iraq who lost in the Olympics. So are they better off ultimately? Maybe, who knows, it hasn't been long enough to really say. And even if they are better off the war was still wrong, wrong, wrong. But when all you're trying to do is live from day to day, get some clean water, and shit like that, it's easy to understand why they might pine for the days of Saddam.
Also, he started wars with neighboring countries
Not that America is much better than that... oh, and his attacks on neighboring countries were regularly backed and funded by the American government.
and was such an asshole that he got the attention of the U.S., the strongest
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Also, he started wars with neighboring countries
Not that America is much better than that... oh, and his attacks on neighboring countries were regularly backed and funded by the American government.
and was such an asshole that he got the attention of the U.S., the strongest ( ... )
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