Re: Thread for Opponents of Iraq War: \"Why\"?
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The principle, as I see it, is that all people should be free, and not subject to a dictator, and the Iraqis needed help to achieve this. What's that qoute, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ? - MLK? Something like that.
This war is important because it attempts to establish a stable democracy in a Muslim country.
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But is it really ok to spread our ideology on other countries with an armed force? I thought we got involved in a couple wars during the Cold War to stop other countries from doing that very same thing and those wars didn't go over so well either. I'm not sure it should be our role to go into other countries and tell them how they should live.
President Bush said in 1999 that our troops should not be used for nation building projects and they should be used to fight and win wars and overthrow dictators when it's in our best interests. That mission was accomplished 4 years ago so why are we still over there?
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