Iraqi man regrets toppling statue of Saddam Hussein

[underguy1]

What "inhuman sanctions" were those? There was no bombing between the end of the First Gulf War and 2003. Do you have any proof that "millions died" in the 1990's?

The gov. of Kuwait was a dictatorial monarchy, but no more of a dictatorship than Iraq. For one thing, they didn't use poison gas on their citizens the way Sadddam did.

Oh please.

What do you read?

 

[underguy1]

You seriously don't expect an American to realise there's a difference do you?

I'm not an American. And Arabs are brown.

 

[underguy1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

How can Americans not know these things?

Your country commits genocide as a matter of course.

Your country is currently committing a genocide in Syria. And it looks like you'll elect one of that genocides greatest proponents, Hillary Clinton.

What's difficult to understand?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

How can Americans not know these things?

Your country commits genocide as a matter of course.

Your country is currently committing a genocide in Syria. And it looks like you'll elect one of that genocides greatest proponents, Hillary Clinton.

What's difficult to understand?

there'll be a lot of kiwis who haven't got a clue about the wider world, too. what are you doing? just winding up the americans?

 

[kimber22]

How can Americans not know these things?
Your country commits genocide as a matter of course.
Your country is currently committing a genocide in Syria. And it looks like you'll elect one of that genocides greatest proponents, Hillary Clinton.
What's difficult to understand?

Oh shut up, idiot! The US are not even there! It's a Sunni / Shiite-thing.... Iran is there, the Hezbollah is there, the Saudis are there; the only ones who are not there, are the US...

I'm a 100% critic of the US-politics in the Middle East (particularly in Iraq & Syria), but what you are saying just shows that you have no idea, what's going on in that part of the world...

kimber, the Austrian.

 

[DeYaKen]

So are we obligated to give a shit what this half-wit says or 'thinks'?

I'd say that your comment says more about you than it does about him.

 

[underguy1]

Oh shut up, idiot! The US are not even there! It's a Sunni / Shiite-thing.... Iran is there, the Hezbollah is there, the Saudis are there, the only ones who are not there, are the US...

I'm a 100% critic of the US-politics in the Middle East (particularly in Iraq & Syria), but what you are saying is just stupid...

kimber, the Austrian.

Really? I don't think you should be calling people idiots.

Idiot.

 

[underguy1]

there'll be a lot of kiwis who haven't got a clue about the wider world, too. what are you doing? just winding up the americans?

I'm not a Kiwi. And even if I was it wouldn't mean that I know nothing about the wider world.

We westerners are generally profoundly ignorant about how the world really works.

We have a whole multi billion dollar industry called the media that is dedicated to keeping us ignorant.

The fun fact is that they pretend to be informative and people actually believe it.

 

[kimber22]

I'm not a Kiwi. And even if I was it wouldn't mean that I know nothing about the wider world.
We westerners are generally profoundly ignorant about how the world really works.
We have a whole multi billion dollar industry called the media that is dedicated to keeping us ignorant.
The fun fact is that they pretend to be informative and people actually believe it.

oh yeah, well, then let's give it a try:
What was the biggest problem the US created in Iraq?
(I give you a hint: It was not the Taliban! (because they are in Afghanistan... ^^)

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I'm not a Kiwi. And even if I was it wouldn't mean that I know nothing about the wider world.

We westerners are generally profoundly ignorant about how the world really works.

We have a whole multi billion dollar industry called the media that is dedicated to keeping us ignorant.

The fun fact is that they pretend to be informative and people actually believe it.

so you're not a kiwi? *shrug* you're in new zealand, yes? some of those kiwis will be aware of what's going on, some won't.

and now you've gone from 'americans' to 'we westerners'.

why are you broad-brushing every american as being less intelligent than yourself?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

oh yeah, well, then let's give it a try:
What was the biggest problem the US created in Iraq?
(I give you a hint: It was not the Taliban! (because they are in Afghanistan... ^^)

it mobilised the foreign jihadists for one.

 

[underguy1]

so you're not a kiwi? *shrug* you're in new zealand, yes? some of those kiwis will be aware of what's going on, some won't.

and now you've gone from 'americans' to 'we westerners'.

why are you broad-brushing every american as being less intelligent than yourself?

I'm not. Any more red herrings?

The issue is that the US and UK have committed genocide in Iraq.

 

[underguy1]

oh yeah, well, then let's give it a try:
What was the biggest problem the US created in Iraq?
(I give you a hint: It was not the Taliban! (because they are in Afghanistan... ^^)

Are you drunk?

 

[underguy1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

 

[kimber22]

it mobilised the foreign jihadists for one.

sorry, geronimo, my post was not meant towards you...

but you are right, of course: the US invasion in Iraq triggered an unprecedented hatred against the US, based on historic "Crusades-stories" ...

 

[kimber22]

Are you drunk?

No, underguy. But what you are saying is nonsense. And I say that from the perspective of an European.

 

[underguy1]

sorry, geronimo, my post was not meant towards you...

but you are right, of course: the US invasion in Iraq triggered an unprecedented hatred against the US, based on historic "Crusades-stories" ...

It amazes me that an adult human being that has access to the internet and can type could be stupid enough to say it.

Can you tie your own shoelaces?

 

[underguy1]

No, underguy. But what you are saying is nonsense. And I say that from the perspective of an European.

Inane.

 

[kimber22]

Inane.

I agree. I think, we're done.

 

[underguy1]

I agree. I think, we're done.

I hope so. You're a moron as far as I can tell.

 

[kimber22]

I hope so. You're a moron as far as I can tell.

thank you! i take it as a compliment!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I'm not. Any more red herrings?

The issue is that the US and UK have committed genocide in Iraq.

so? bleating on here isn't gonna solve any issues, eh?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

sorry, geronimo, my post was not meant towards you...

but you are right, of course: the US invasion in Iraq triggered an unprecedented hatred against the US, based on historic "Crusades-stories" ...

i know; i was just making a comment. no harm, no foul.

 

[someoneyouknow]

More goodies from letters Tony Blair wrote to George Bush both before and after the invasion show 1) the lie of Iraq having an active wmd program, 2) the complete lack of anything resembling a coherent strategy for what to do after the invasion and 3) the desperation to spin the invasion as something worthwhile to deal with a non-existent threat.

I think my favorite part is this:

October 5, 2003: 'A coherent strategy to get us back on the high ground'

Blair says things are tough on the ground and laments the failure to find more evidence of weapons of mass destruction. "But this was always about more than that," he writes. "It was about a global threat. The starting place was Iraq because of the history."

Yes Tony, and that threat, which didn't then exist, now exists in spades thanks you and Bush getting rid of someone who wouldn't have allowed Daesh to get a toehold in his country.

Because of the lies of Bush and Blair, Iraq has turned into the largest terrorist training ground on the planet, one which didn't exist before the invasion.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/politics/chilcot-report-blair-bush-letters/index.html

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oh please.

What do you read?

Well, I have definitely not read anything believable from you. If there were millions of Iraqis killed during the 1990's, it must have happened when I wasn't looking.