All the dead people and their relatives, I should expect. Not to mention the international community at large, perhaps? It's a fundamental question on the legality of the war. If that reason was fabricated then the entire justification for going to war was also a fabrication and therefore the war itself was illegal.
Here's an interesting article I read last night. It's pretty disturbing!!! http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=73753
As the article stated, these war is managed by civilians who do not know the difference between WAR and WAR CRIMES and instead of obeying the international laws, try to change and disregard it so they will not be responsible for their own actions.
Noam Chomsky? Why not raise Stalin from the dead and get his views personally? Heh, Noam Chomsky Thanks for the humor!
Gtech Any comment on what these Generals stated: "What we are living with now is the consequences of successive policy failures." He does not discriminate, he doesn't like thinking in general.
Didn't I already cover that gworld? Or are we going to play the game again? Any comment on why you want the US to pull out of Iraq so terrorists can take over?
Quote: "What we are living with now is the consequences of successive policy failures." So do you agree with it, or do you think that you know more than these generals?
I covered it quite well on page one. I can only surmize that you seriously have a reading comprehension problem. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=797777&postcount=13 I think we're up to about the 52nd time now. Want to go for 53?
Well, I had no idea who Noam Chomsky was so I had to look the fellow up on Wiki. Rather distinguished. Wow! That's a tremendous contribution. Now that you've had a few hours sleep, I hope you are feeling up to answering the question on 'weapons of mass destruction' - a fabrication as a pretence to go to war or not? C'mon, Gtech, you can admit to being wrong. You know you want to.
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered to be the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics in the 20th century. But that is OK, Corporal Gtech also believes that he knows more than generals, Bush administration, CIA and NSA. This kind of illusions is quite common among the Corporals.
I do believe it was Sgt Gtech. That's a powerful article, Rob. Thanks for posting the link. Y'see that's what disturbs me the most about this war in Iraq; the crimes and the steps away from what I always found to admire - a stance against hideous injustices, torture and civilian massacres such as those that were perpetrated in Yugoslavia when it disintegrated as a country. Where has all that gone? Why did the US even bother getting involved in that conflict if the plan was to turn everything on its head and do the very things it had Slobodan (who wasn't poisoned) Milosevic on trial for in the Haig? To where has that admirable country disappeared, replaced by one that rewrites the Geneva Convention to suit and ignores those laws that were supposed to help retain some degree and remnant of civilisation and humanity even in the darkest, most brutal war?
I don't know much about Chomsky. I did, however, read and enjoy one of his books- Propaganda and the Public Mind .
The problem with this thread is the question. It should be reversed for ease of typing. Why Iraq Wasn't a Mistake. Then we could all anwser that it was obviously a mistake and quit wasting out time talking about it.
Except, of course, that Iraq wasn't a mistake. The liberation of Iraq was a bold strategic decision to make the world a better place for all of us and for all of our children. In the short term, any great change will have associated costs. We all grieve for these costs, but a few let their grief affect their better judgement.
Iraq has not a perfect constitution, but they are a democracy and the people can decide who's going to rule their country and are therefore a democracy. It is still not a full democracy since Saddams Baath party isn't allowed, but in the whole, it's a lot more democratic than it was before the OIF(Operation Iraqi Freedom).