Reply #35: We do not invade countries that cooperate or in which we have [View All]

[sabrina 1]

helped establish puppet governments. The reason we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan is because their leaders refused to cooperate. As long as Saddam Hussein was compliant, we rewarded him no matter how brutal he was to his own people and others. Only when he decided to deal with the Russians and Chinese did the U.S. decide to invade and remove him. Now we have an agreement with the puppet government there, over the objections of the Iraqi people, to allow the control of over 80% of Iraq's oil to multi-national corps.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait torture their citizens also, but they are allies of the U.S., don't we care about that? The answer is 'no' we don't.

As for China, yes, I do care and wonder why the U.S. has given them Favored Nation status. So clearly our government is not concerned about human rights anywhere, only when they can use it against a non-compliant government.