I don't think Saddam or even Hitler were evil. They were men with strong idealologies who attempted to enforce them as a sovereign right in their own countries. I think there are elements of the Taliban who were in clear violation of human rights but for the most part, they were just an extremist religious government who wanted to enforce an interpretation of their religious law according to their holy book.
Point is, did a million+ Iraqis need to die in the Iraq war to stop the deaths of 1000 or so despots per year by Saddam?
And did 50 million people (25 million civillians) need to die to stop the expulsion of a few million jews from Germany?
Did over 3 million need to die in Vietnam, and many generations more from poison and leftover bombs, because the US wanted to "fight communism" (the same thing that Hitler wanted to do in 1930s).
Remember that Saddam was given weapons by the US in order to kill Iranians, the Taliban was given weapons by the US to kill Russians, and today the the Israelies are given weapons to kill the Palestinians in their own continually shrinking territories. The US condones and enables the slaughter of thousand upon thousands of INNOCENT PEOPLE every year, some of the poorest people of the land with nothing to live for but their families (no internet, no Xbox, no movies, no fast food) and you pieces of *beep* still harp on about the killing of 3,000 odd rich, pampered New Yorkers. Sure, they had families too, but the fact they were wealthy in a wealthy country was the only reason their deaths are seen with more signfificance than the "unworthy victims" of the US and their allies.
Whatever sympathy the world had after September 11 should have well and truly dried up in the following 10 years of atrocities committed by the US since.
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overninethousand
13 years ago
Huh? The Germans started the war by invading Poland, and than systematically most of the rest of Europe. Later they even declared war on the USA.
"the same thing that Hitler wanted to do in 1930s" - yeah, by allying with Stalin to invade Poland. And "the Taliban was given weapons by the US to kill Russians" is simply untrue. Same for "Saddam was given weapons by the US in order to kill Iranians" (try and spot any American tanks, planes, even rifles - the idiot Michael Moore showed a clip the Soviet-made BMPs to illustrate the "America arming Saddam" idiocy, also do you know where the US weapons actually went during Iran-Contra affair?).
And "deaths of 1000 or so despots", what? "Despots"? Really?
WTC was named "World Trade Center" for a reason. People from all around the globe died there - 372 were foreign nationals. Among the victims were janitors, security guards, maintance workers and such, and hundreds of rescuers, including more than 400 cops and firefighters - "rich, pampered New Yorkers"? Who are YOU to call a firefighter "pampered"?
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