re: #42 sliv_the_eli

Here are a few more questions to add to the many substantive questions in this threat that you have still failed to even attempt to answer:

1. Did the regime in Iraq that was overthrown as a result of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq kill, maim or commit any other actions that, under the rules of international law, are crimes against humanity?

2. Is it your position that, absent the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, no blood of innocents would have been spilled at the hands of the Saddam regime? If yes, please provide factual support for your argument.

3. Is it your position that Saddam’s victims, past and potential, were not entitled to cosideration or protection by the international community and that he should have smiply been allowed to continue butchering, raping, torturing and otherwise opporessing the population of his country? If yes, please explain why the blood of Saddam’s victims are not the “blood of innocents”.

4. Here’s a more basic one. Please provide support for your assertion that “The blood of millions of innoncents” was spilled by the Iraq War (you need not provide factual support for your assrtion that I, personally, am responsible for any of those deaths, much less millions of deaths). For comparison sake, here is information from a source, The Guardian newspaper in Britain, that you cannot simply write off as right-wing, Replublican or — heaven forbid — American:

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk…]

I eagerly await your erudite responses.

1) Since the USA helped Iraq carry out atrocities and war crimes by selling chemicals and providing intel and weapons to Iraq during the Cold War the USA can not be the one that brings Iraq’s leadership to justice while America’s leaders of that era were also not jailed as war criminals. Cue picture of Rumsfeld visiting Saddam. Google it.

2) The US invasion and sanctions caused deaths that would not have happened otherwise. ORB survey of Iraq War casualties 1,033,000 deaths as a result of the conflict. The Lancet, the journal of the British Medical Society, asserting that sanctions were responsible for the deaths of 567,000 Iraqi children. An estimatec 200,000 dead from the Iraq-Iran war (US armed both sides even after atrocities were reported thus guilty by association). Not counting the wounded or refugees. That’s close to two million dead that the USA shares the blame for and is guilty for.

3) Christians and secularists were more free and protected under Saddam than under what the US imposed. So the USA FAILED to protect anyone and widened the victim pool.

4) See #2.

Republicans and Bush supporters = Baby killers and proud of it.