Does President Bush care about the Iraqi people?

Post-9/11 Era Forum

A lot are blasting President Bush for targeting civilians yet the U.S. Military continues to state that they are not targeting civilians. The military say that the bombs and missiles being used are “Smart Weapons” guided by GPS satellites. In the 1991 Gulf War it is said that 10% of the weapons used were “Smart” as opposed to this war where 90% of the weapons are “Smart”.

In the 1991 Gulf War one of the first actions was to knock out the electricity and other utilities. This war the lights are still on water is still flowing in Baghdad.

In 1991 the military conducted a massive bombing campaign before committing ground forces. http://www.indepthinfo.com/iraq/airwar.shtml

This war ground forces are moving in conjunction with the bombing campaign. In the 1991 Gulf war ground forces only needed to oust the Iraqi military from Kuwait. They didn’t get anywhere near Baghdad.
http://www.indepthinfo.com/iraq/groundwar.shtml

The Iraqi authorities told United Nations representatives who visited the country in March 1991 that about 9,000 homes -- housing some 72,000 people -- had been destroyed or badly damaged during the air war. Some 2,500 of the buildings were in Baghdad and another 1,900 in Basra. However, one member of a U.S. delegation who visited Baghdad for four days after the war did not find physical evidence in the city to support the Iraqi government figures. After traveling around Baghdad, she concluded that the Iraqi figures were "not credible." These figures have not been verified to this day.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1991/gulfwar/CHAP5.htm

So far Iraq has said that about 500 civilians have lost their lives. However a University of New Hampshire professor who counts civilian war deaths said that as of the 27th counts more than 220 civilian deaths. This is far under the amount claimed by Iraq. He counts all civilian deaths including if they were the result of their own weapons.
http://www.nhpr.org/content/fullmonty_view.php/4614/

It is 12 days into the war and food and water are entering Iraq from the Sir Galahad at the port of Um Qasar. http://www.terradaily.com/2003/0303...6.j3n7bpx0.html

I am not going to go into the atrocities committed by Saddam’s regime because it has been well documented here and elsewhere. Except to say that it is said that he and his regime is responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people including 5000 who were gassed in Halabja.
http://www.fair.org/extra/0209/iraq-gas.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/bowden.htm

Man, the guy doesn't even know where Irak is...

I guess that's why were invading New Jersey! Get real!

Hell no! If they didn't have oil Bonehead Bush wouldn't be able to find it on the map!

I suppose that Ron is the only one which voted : yes


I hope it's true .....
But my opnion is: no

and if it's NO, the "heaven" they bring to Iraqi people will become a hell, and not only in Iraq .....

And as I said, now it's too late, whatever happen in Iraq .... it will be hell in some west countries ....

This poll isn't about whether or not you like President Bush. It is about whether you think Bush cares about the Iraqi citizens. Everyone has their own general opinions about President Bush and many think he is a brilliant man. Obviously others don't like him. At least in America you can express your dislikes about the President without fearing reprisal or death. And one thing about our system of Government is if you don't like him you can vote for someone else next time. In this case 2004 we could have someone that has much different ideas.

George W. Bush is a religious man who I believes cares about the citizens of Iraq and the rest of the world.

Do you think that the Iraqi's will have a better life once we leave? I think so.

I don't know whether Bush truely cares for the Iraqi people or not. I know that I do and I know that many of the people in this forum, who back this war, do. As long as their freedom is achieved, I don't think that it really matters.

An anti war person asked me to put the poll here so I thought about it and put it up.

Iraqis could have a worse life now, like most Russians have a worse life since the break-up of the USSR. Sure, they won't have Saddam, but now they have a fairly modern, secular country, who knows? After the war it might degenerate into a splintered Afghanistan type country.

This is your chance... since I didn't so such a hot job of impartiality go for it. Present some impartial facts on the subject.

I tried to show the difference between the first Gulf war and this Gulf war.

I'm pretty certain he cares. I don't think he's a totally heartless bastard, whatever some people would like to make him out as. Just how much he cares though is another matter. I certanly don't see him applying some kind of global philosophy to helping innocent people in distress.

I think any real judgement calls on his character would require some kind of personal knowledge of the man himself (ie, talking to him in person at length), or at least a wider base of examples of his actions. An answer without that really just somes down to whether or not you like the guy. In the end however, the only one who truly knows the answer to this question is Bush himself.

This whole line of garbage about civilian lives lost is just that... garbage.

Saddam Hussein has been exploiting his own people in this war to make a play on the surrounding Arab nations and the liberals abroad.

The anti-coalitioners suck it up, of course, for all its worth to enable them to further whine and moan.... as if they had a genuine concern for Iraqi civilians that exceeds everyone elses. It's called bologna... and these anti-coalitioners don't fool me in the least.