Posted by Dinah on March 23, 2006, at 14:41:48
In reply to Re: Iraqi Deaths » Dinah, posted by special_k on March 23, 2006, at 14:28:06
I'm not sure I'm up to explaining why a minority viewpoint should be taken into account when the wishes of the majority are to... Oh lordy. Definitely not up to it. Why don't you google ethnic warfare in Iraq.
Are we siding with the Kurds? Of course not, where did you get that idea. Would we be doing them a disservice by allowing ethnic tensions to play themselves out as they have in the past? In my humble opinion, allowing that would be unconscionable. Just as standing by in the Sudan is unconscionable. But that, of course, is just my conscience and reasonable people apparently do believe otherwise.
In hindsight, I don't believe we should have gone in, hindsight being twenty-twenty and all. But I also believe that reasonable people could have concluded that the reluctance of the government to allow UN inspectors to look for WMD could have meant that there were WMD. That's why I said I regret that the UN inspectors weren't allowed to inspect.
I just think that that is irrelevant in regards to what we should do *now*. What we should do *now* should be based on an analysis of the likely outcome of a pullout.
Does the UN need to be asked to volunteer to replace US forces with UN ones?
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