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Originally Posted by WendyCal
Actually, yes. i believe that if someone asks you for help, you give it to them. And, UnFan? For the Arabic peoples to be asking for OUR help? Man, they're desperate.
They don't want to live like that, imho. They want freedom of choice, too. They want to work Toward something, not For something.
i don't think i understand that second part...
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when exactly did the iraqi people ask for the help of the united states? there's a huge difference between a country going in and using military force to break up the rule of a country and someone going in as a peacekeeping force after being requested.
The american civil was was just that, a civil war. the war in iraq is a completely different situation. The closest thing the country had to a civil war before the american invasion was the unsettlement between the kurdish people and the iraqi government. Yes there were flare-ups, yes there was fighting, but there was no cry for help from either side.
The war in iraq wasn't a humanitarian effort. It wasn't started for the good of the iraqi people. Not even at the the start was there any mention of that, it was started on the false accusations of iraq having weapons of mass destruction (and no, do NOT post that article you posted before, as it has already been proven to be completely and utterly false), and on the false accusations that al-queda was operating in iraq. There was no presence of al-queda before the war, and yet there was afterwards after the US thoroughly destroyed the infrastructure and the government of iraq and allowed al queda an in to the country.
America did not "liberate" the iraqi people. They are living with just as much if not more terror than they were under hussein's regime, the security situation is just as unstable as before, and what's more, the whole conflict has unearthed and ignited an actual civil war between sunni and shiite muslims that was not under way before the invasion as hussein (a shiite).
So I guess NOW there could be a slight parallel between the american civil war and the war in iraq, now that the bush administration effectively started a civil war in the country.