Originally posted by xrtoronto
If your country had not launched an illegal immoral war against the sovereign country of Iraq, Al Sadr would be just some chubby cleric no one ever heard about. Along with the prison abuse pictures and all the subsequent court martials and continuing investigations, you can't in any way claim 'the high road' as your own crump.
Al Sadr charged with killing one man...the US has killed hundreds of thousands in Iraq.
Couple points here.
I see that by calling the U.S. actions immoral, you were pro-Saddam and favor mass murder of innocent civilians. How horrible. We warned the world we were going for the terrorist. Saddam was in bed with them, AND was in violation for over a decade of U.N. resolutions that he aggreed to so as to avoid us marching up into Baghdad during the 1st war (was the liberation of Kuwait unjust and immoral also?) and taking him out. I personally blame the majority of the decade of time btween the 2 wars on the U.S. having a bleeding heart tree hugger in charge of our military for 8 of those years. Saddam was a bad guy. Plenty of torture and killing (real torture, not nude pyramid building) was done by Saddam. He needed taken out.
As far as the "high road", I see no comparison in embarrising some prisoners and attacking innocent civilians. Ok, so some reservists made some Iraqi prisoners stand naked and took pictures of them in humiliating positions, FOR which they are being punished. Vs. attacking and killing innocent civilians. I fail to see how these two things are remotely the same. One is similar to a fraternity prank, while the other is cold blooded murder. Remind me again how they are alike. I will be happy to dig up some old Sesame Street re-runs that have the "One of these things is not like the other ones" bit. Seems you are a bit rusty.
And re. the US killing hundreds of thousands Iraqi's, I again fail to see the similarities to cold blooded murder, and deaths in a war. The U.S. doesn't target innocent civilans, while Iraqi troops went out of their way to put the Iraq civilian population in harms way. Don't blame the U.S. soldiers for blowing up the building that had a family of 12 in it. Blame the 10 Iraqi soldiers who intentionally tried to use the civilians as a shield and used their house to attack the U.S. forces. (not letting the civilians leave to get out of harms way I might add)
Have you been to war? Have you seen war? Do you have a CLUE what the rest of the world is like outside your narrow (and non. reality grounded) little world? Let me hear some of your first hand experiences with human suffering. I'm serious, I would like to hear them. What have you personally witnessed? Have you been to another country and witnessed some of the atrocities that were committed in Iraq? OR anything remotely similar? I would like to hear just what life experiences you have had that you are basing your opinions on.
