Soundwave said:
There are dictators in every corner of the Middle East and Africa, we gonna go fight all of them? The Kurds are now getting killed by ISIS instead of Saddam. And once ISIS is defeated in about a year most likely, then it'll be some other damn group. So instead of one guy who hates Kurds (Saddam) you now have a group that hates Kurds, Yazidis, Americans, Russians, etc. and anyone else who isn't a hardcore Sunni. Maybe we should just stay the fuck outta the Middle East, doesn't seem like anything we do there does any good, it just leads to more problems. |
Iraq's era under President Saddam Hussein was notorious for its severe violations of human rights. Secret police, torture, mass murder, rape, deportations, forced disappearances, assassinations, chemical warfare, and the destruction of southern Iraq's marshes were some of the methods the country's Ba'athist government used to maintain control. The total number of deaths related to torture and murder during this period are unknown. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued regular reports of widespread imprisonment and torture.
In January 2004, Human Rights Watch stated: "Having devoted extensive time and effort to documenting [Saddam's] atrocities, we estimate that in the last twenty-five years of Ba'th Party rule the Iraqi government murdered or 'disappeared' some quarter of a million Iraqis, if not more."
Lots of dictators sure, but how many of them are using VX, Sarin, mustard gas, cyanide, ect on a quarter million people? You're correct we cannot nor should we be involved in removing every dictator in the world but we also shouldn't turn a blind eye to the truly deplorable ones either. I suppose you think we should have left Hitler alone? There are people that still hate on the Jews so what good did taking Hitler out do? Weak argument, I expected better of you Soundwave.
I will say in general our efforts in the middle east have done more harm than good but we have done an awful lot of meddling over the years.
