Reply #7: Are our government institutions completely destroyed every election cycle [View All]

[leftistagitator]

We blew up many of their government buildings, arrested the old political leadership, destroyed much of thier records, eliminated their old currency system, and are desperatly trying to prevent the old ruling party from returning to power in the future. The last time we tried anything that drastic in our own country was the Civil War, and yes, we did use Marshall law to impose that. About 10 years of it, and when we got tired of terrorists attacking us, we pulled out too early then, too. Which is why we have the Republican Party of today, the philisophical descendents of the Confederates, because we didn't finish off their ideals when we had the chance.

If the 91' revolt had worked then it would have been, by definition, a Civil War. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands would have died. And yes, we would have swooped in with the UN, provided a lot of aid and possibly peace keeping forces to help setup a new government, whatever was needed at the time.

You seem to think I like this. I may end up dying in this war. I'm 22, and have training in engineering, that makes me very likely to get drafted. I put up signs opposing this war, wrote letters, and told all the people who would listen, and some who wouldn't, about why this was a bad bad idea. But I don't see any better option. We made the committment when we launched this stupid ass war, to inflict chaos on the Iraqis would just worsen our crime.