‘Why Rumsfeld Is Wrong’

[seemslikeadream]

I was never in any doubt about the brutality of the Saddam Hussein’s regime, but neither government ever based its case for invasion on brutality—because that’s simply no basis in international law for going to war just to change a regime. If we do decide that we are going to go to war to remove brutal regimes then we have a very busy time in front of us. We are not proposing to intervene to relieve the people of Zimbabwe of the repressive rule of President Mugabe. We are not proposing to intervene in Burma where the military junta has run the country for longer than Saddam Hussein. We have allowed more people to be killed in the Congo civil war than were ever killed inside Iraq. If you are going to decide that brutality is a reason for military intervention, it must be a decision that is multilaterally by an international forum. You cannot have individual nations such as the U.K. or the U.S. deciding for themselves which ones they are going to pick on next. One important reason is that if you accept that principle that countries can invade countries where you disapprove of the regime, the next time it may not be the U.S. or the U.K. that acts on that principle




We have allowed more people to be killed in the Congo civil war than were ever killed inside Iraq.
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3.5 million lives lost in Congo since 1998

[wtmusic]

1. Don't forget Sudan

2 million dead since 1994.

[dudeness]

2. Rwanda

one million in 100 days..

the problem for the US is..once you pronounce yourself as the worlds policeman you place on yourself obligations to enforce the law? fairly and equally..its just bad luck if you do not fit into the empires strategic or economic considerations..

[Wapsie B]

3. East Timor

n/t

[Disturbed]

4. Regime change

The US only goes about changing regimes that do not play ball with US interests.

[anarchy1999]

5. Premise does not exactly hold up, does it?

There were many more brutal regimes, many more atrocities being committed, we, the US felt that Iraq was the most threatening and the "most brutal".

Has it ever come home. No more torture chambers, rape rooms or mass graves courtesy of Saddam, no we bring it to you straight from the US of A, no more middleman.