Eyesore wrote:
Jaden wrote:
Sure, you can say that Saddam murdered x many people, but by similar logic, you could say the same about most executive politicians, especially Bush.
Are you that naive? You're comparing Genocide with war? There are always opponents of war, no matter how just or unjust the cause. When one joins the military they know full well what they're getting themselves into, even if they choose to believe they'll never go to war.
Hussein and Bush are not comparable. To do so is fucking idiotic.
okay.. so if it's a war about oil f.ex, it's not that bad if 100.000 innocents are getting killed... they are just "opponents"?
It's not okay to kill your neightbour and his bodyguard either just to get his television. But appearantly that's okay if you're an executive politician.
of course, genocide and war are not the same. Genocide is intirely directed at innocent ppl based on their etnicity, however, war is almost as devasting towards the innocent, at least in Iraq. In reality it's not really Sadam that has caused most death in his country. Sanctions in the 90's did a very good job there, causing hunger to such and an extend that 500.000 children alone died from famine. How many died during the first golf war i don't know, we have always been told that the american weapons was very precise but it's clearly not the case nowadays. Sure, you could justify all ppl who have lost their life by hands of the west, but a dead person is still a dead person.