How can everyone be so sure war is wrong?

Saturday March 22, 2003 14:32

by Anonymous

Its not about what we want - Its about what the people of Iraq want.

This war is not about what the Americans and the British want. But what I think people are inclined to forget, EQUALLY, it is not about what anti-war protestors want. It is about what the Iraqi people want. If this war ends quickly with "limited" casualties and the brutal Saddam regime is toppled will this inadvertently have been the right thing to do?

I have been a vehement anti-war protestor myself and abhor the policies of the US and the UK, especially the former, and particuarily over the last 50 years. I ask the following as a question and in a devil's advocat way:-

Though Bush & his administration are dangerous, manipulative, not to be trusted people - and the motive for the war in Iraq is at least partially economically driven - how can everyone be so sure that this war is wrong?

I pose the "possibility" that inadvertantenly, the US/UK may be doing the right thing. Inadvertantently in the sense that their real reasons for the war, i.e.:-

Self defense & oil & other economic reasons

may inadvertantently do the right thing for the Iraqi people, i.e.:-

rid them of the tyranny of Saddam Hussain & his regime which they have endured for decades now.

I have yet to see a proper answer to the question (I have already posed this question on this site with limited responses):-

What do the people of Iraq want?

It is not about what the Americans & the British want. But EQUALLY it is not about what anti-war protestors want.

Can everyone acurately answer this question right now without having to scury off trying to find info.? Indeed if you go off and scury for info can you even come back then and answer the question?

All I have seen on this site, other sites, and indeed from all media sources is a selection of interviews with various Iraqi people.

Under Saddams regime, no doubt it is hard to conduct a poll. So can I take that no one has ever done a poll? But has any one conducted a survey of some sorts as to what the Iraqi people want??

From studying Iraqi interviewees, they seem to be fairly divided.

Similarily if you look at the views of Iraqi ex-patriots / communities, they too seem to be fairly divided.

The only valid reason for the invasion of Iraq is the toppling of the Saddam regime. The people there have suffered enormously under him - between being slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands, to being tortured and having their eyes gouged out, to just living a miserable, poor existance under his tyranny.

I believe, one must pause for thought. Not get totally carried away with one side of the argument and completely ignore all other arguments. Must not necessarily get carried away in a frenzy of hate for America etc. If anti-war protestors expect pro-war people to consider the anti-war argument, how can they expect this, unless they too are willing to consider the pro-war argument.

Though America & Britain's motives are wrong, are they inadvertently doing the right thing?

The way the war is going at present it could be over very quickly and civilian, Iraqi army and "Allied" casualties, may not be enormous.

"If" this is how it turns out, and the brutal regime of Saddam is toppled, are people still "100%" sure that the war would have been the wrong thing to do??