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Americans only: Did you support the Iraq war and now would you?

I supported it but changed my mind 5 5.56%
 
I didn't support it but changed my mind 2 2.22%
 
I supported it and haven't changed my mind 10 11.11%
 
I didn't support, nor change my mind 29 32.22%
 
View results plox 44 48.89%
 
Total:90

I didn't support it. I don't support that we are in libya either.



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Title is misleading



Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?

Kamal said:

 

 


Go back to North Korea, commie. Nobody buys your red propaganda here.



Kamal said:


I gotta say while I agree with the video I disagree that America's intervention's have all been bad and that the US shouldn't have intervened. After WWII the US declared itself with the help of her allies as the world's super power. The US had the responsability to protect and police the rest of the world.

The US became the worlds only "permanent Super Power". The Government vowed that the US would remain the worlds strongest super power, permanently.

Now if America allowed hostile Government's to threaten its position like many of the countries listed in the music video. Then the US could find itself in another world war. Also its not as if the US unillaterally entered these countries and toppled them, the UK , France and many of the allies supported the US's actions and in many cases even caused the US's actions.

To judge America for all the worlds Government's is simply wrong. Not that your wrong in the fact that America did all these things but they weren't alone. Why isn't their a music video about France or Britian or heck even Canada? Same could be said about Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel , India, China , Russia. The list of countries intervening in other countries affairs is very long.

Fact is countries need to look out for their interests and if a bunch of countries becoming communist is a threat to the democratic worlds interests then something should be done about it. Everything happening across the globe directly effects all of our countries. Every action taken by any Government effects all of us and our Governments need to at times interven in our own countries interests or even the interests of the civilians!



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer

 

PhantomLink said:

Title is misleading

 

In what sense? I made every attempt to write a good title, seems I failed.

 

Ahh well, interesting responses thanks people :)



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I couldn't care less about USA affairs.

I'm South American, so yeah.



 

scottie said:
PhantomLink said:

Title is misleading

 

In what sense? I made every attempt to write a good title, seems I failed.

 

Ahh well, interesting responses thanks people :)

Basically for what Kirameo posted, the term Americans may refer to all America and not the US. But the title is fine man, because the majority of people relate Americans to US Americans, I was just kidding.

OT. For me all wars are stupid mainly because they exists for the purpose of satisfying the needs of a very small group, hell, I think that countries are just geographical divisions that exists for the same purpose as wars.



Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?

Ahh, yeah, whoops, I of course meant people from the US only.



I'm an Aussie so I didn't vote.

I was against the war because it didn't have a UN mandate and it seemed like the weapons of mass destruction ploy wasn't sufficient justification for war. However now that the conflict exists I think we have an obligation to help build this country as effectively as possible. Improvements have been made in the last few years and if after all of this is over, they have some semblance of a democracy and the government is equipped to effectively counter insurgencies then at-least we will have equipped Iraq with the basic tools to improve the country.

I do not weep that a despot was taken from power, but with the no fly zone in place and sanctions, he was largely contained, so yeah I don't think the war was justified then and I don't think it is now.



I didn't support the war. 

Not because any of that "It wasn't UN mandated illegal war" BS though, because this was the same UN that sent people to Rawanda and then refused to give them orders allowing people to be butchered an peacekeepers to do nothing but watch. 

I mean, there reasons were pretty clearly found out in the whole oil for food scandal that people tend to ignore.

People who don't support it because of that come off as about as ignorant as the people who claim we went there to get Al Queda.  The UN wanted to protect a country they were getting millions in kickbacks from?  Who'd of guessed.  The whole coverup afterwords was great too.  "Don't release any information to investigators unless first given permission by me, and the guy who specifically been accused of fraud via Iraqi economic documents showing payouts.

 

I didn't support it because if we had good reasons not to "finish the job" after Desert Storm.

 

Honsetly, the whole thing has gone better then I expected, however.  It looks like Iraq EVENTUALLY will have a solid democracy, and the presence of Democracy in the middle east may have been a contributing factor to the massive wave of regime change we've seen in the middle east lately.

As of yet, i'd still say no to it... but my mind is less made up of it being a bad idea, and based on how things out it might change completely.