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Old 07-10-2007   #20 (permalink)
Jasper84
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Default Re: Palestine and the West

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Originally Posted by Big Dave
Please name a single person who has been personally killed by President Bush or Mr Blair.
Please name a single person who has been personally killed by Stalin or Hitler.
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Originally Posted by Big Dave
Bush and Blair responded to what they thought was a real threat to their countries (although that was likely due to dodgy intel reports) at the time. Under Saddam's regime, all sectarian violence was strongly repressed as the punishment imposed at the time was (summary) execution. Once Saddam was removed from power, the lid was opened and sectarian violence was reignited. I see no reason why Bush or Blair could have predicted this would have happened - it just did. Unfortunately, many people have now been killed in Iraq (many of them completely innocent), but their killers were Iraqis, not the Coalition Forces.
Huh, it was clear that Iraq was no threat at the time. And that is not after-knowledge either. There is plenty of evidence that they knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction, nor any intent of using those. It was not about Iraqi freedom/protection either. In other countries, there were people in more important threats and problems. There was also way to little planning on what to do after the invasion.
The response of these leaders on the situation were, at the least, incompetent.
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