Bloomberg 04/08/13: "Was the Iraq Invasion Worthwhile? Ask an Iraqi"
On Apr 10, 8:53*pm, mg wrote:
On Apr 10, 6:14*am, ПеаБраин wrote:
Bloomberg 04/08/13: *"Was the Iraq Invasion Worthwhile? Ask an Iraqi"
“...From the perspective of the Kurdish people -- and I dare say the
majority of the Iraqi people -- it was worth it,” he said. “War is
never a good option, but given our history and the brutality of
Saddam’s regime, it may have been the only other option to end the
genocidal campaign waged by Saddam...
...“All Iraqis lived under a regime that had complete disdain for
human life,” he said. “Executions and killings continued at will.
Thousands of Iraqis were being sent to the mass graves..
Saddam was a menace to the Kurds, to the other Iraqi communities, and
an inherent danger to the region. He was, from our perspective in this
part of the world, a grave and mortal danger that we could never be
safe from while he was still around....”
google any part of the above if you are really interested *to hear
anything about this from the Iraqi perspective
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It was good for the winners and bad for the losers. The Shiites and
Kurds won and the Sunnis lost. It was also bad for America because
Iraq is now, or soon will be, a close ally of Iran.
Questionable.
Translation, News & Analysis of Contemporary Islamic Thought
The Future of Iran-Iraq Relations
"...a number of factors also indicate the unlikelihood of Iraq
becoming future a satellite of Iranian interests. While Iraq’s
Shi’ites may share a common religious denominator with Iranians, their
Arab Iraqi traditions remain a guiding force in their identity. This
is true in part as a result of their relatively recent conversion to
the sect from Sunnism, which occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries,
leaving them with strong ties to their Arab tribal roots that often
trump identification with their Persian counterparts. During the Iran-
Iraq war, for that matter, most Iraqi Shi’ites identified with their
Arab identity rather than that of their Iranian co-religionists....'
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