Do you want the Iraqi people free?

Post-9/11 Era Forum

Obviously they are not free under Sadam, and some people are not supporting the coalition, so the real question here is do you want the Iraqi people free?

Sure we do. America doesn't

The fact that america decided to invade iraq and go after their old pal saddam doesn't mean they care about iraqi people's freedom. Did it take them 12 years to realize iraqi people are opressed? and that they brought the wrong person in power? surprisingly that's the same case with bin laden.

You act like America is a god, and not a human lead country. A god can effect immediate change anytime they wish without going through commitee (the UN) and a god see's all and knows all about exactly when to do what...

1) Obviously this is a country that is lead by human beings.

2) George Bush 1, was 2 presidents ago. During his presidency he worked and wanted to remove Sadam from power. He, a republican (our political generally right wing party which in general have a large interest in foreign affairs), was blocked from removing Sadam by the United Nations.

3) After Bush's presidency Clinton (a democrat, which usually do not have strong foreign policies) kept the status quo and tried to allow the sanctions to have Sadam change, and tried to appease the Middle East and the UN by not pushing this unacceptable situation.

4) Bush II (a republican) came into office and started again into a strong foreign policy presidency. After 9/11, many of the voices that were for appeasing the middle east and trying to make friends rather than do what needs to be done were silenced, so the government was given the go ahead.

These are not opinions, but what happened.

If you want to know who brought about this change, the names of all of them are very well known. They flew a plane into a couple buildings, and hence have crystalized the United States into following a foreign policy that perhaps would not have come around otherwise.

yeah America is no god. I wish they understand that too

we dont proclaim to be god just think everyone needs to taste freedom and have the right to be free and not have to be prosicuted,raped and murdered because of what there beleif is and not worry about being shot for saying hi to someone. All will come out in the end, there will be weapons chem/bio found and probly worse. Than what will all of your responses be somethingthing like thankyou us/uk for protecting us from these chemicle and possoible nuclear weapons. Time will tell and there allready finding these sort of things,anti-dotes,chemicle suits,washdown chemicle vehicle. Now if saddam susposeenly doesnt have these types of weapons why do they have they suits and antidotes and vehicles. And ill bet that they have alot more yet to be found , and they will as we progress forward to bagdad. Then a simple thankyou to our president and all the other presidents involved in this war. Also a very strong thankyou to all of the men and women that put there lives on the line and the people that died so that all this can be brought to the worlds attention and show proof. and so that the world can be safe and future generations in all the world may also be safe.

When this is over... a lot of folks will owe the USA/UK an engraved apology.

Not that it will do much good.... Americans won't be revoking the title of 'Wimpy Chicken' from France and Germany for many years to come....

kidding ? well, may be you can take time and read the posts all around and count how many of them are calling for this kind of behavior (bombs).
i d rather be a fool without a cause than a fool with innocent blood on my hand.

i personaly think iraq Should be free and be able to enjoy the sweet nector of freedom and i hope they are allowed to set up there own goverment non us involved. Give the iraqis a chance they are a proud nation and a proud people all through there history, they just ran into alittle bad luck got an evil ,dangerous man who cared for no one but himself, he meaning sadam has no love for life or respect for life of the iraqi people. WE need to go in liberate iraq, help rebuild them better than they were and allow them to set up there own goverment and run there country the way they want. Just get rid of sadam

I want them to be free. I want them to be a model for the rest of the region as a moderate stable democracy which hopefully may spur change in some of the more oppressive regimes in the region.

Yes, exporting freedom with cruise missiles. Good idea. Btw it doesnt look like the iraqi's want to be bombed in democracy... Stop wathing cnn...

Hopefully they'll become free, freely elect their own government through proper elections...and then release a statement that they hate Israel and will be awarding their oil contracts to France! Now that would be funny!

as long as it is done by a free nation and not a tortured country, that would be great for iraq.

I only wish I could believe that you mean that. Sometimes I think that what people like Bush think is "freedom" is that they be given the freedom, but only if they agree with us...and that's not freedom.