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- KuzII0
I look at it this way.
If you intervene you must take responsibilty for the consequences of that action and what comes after.
Somalia/Iraq
Same goes if you don't. You must bear the consequences of that choice also.
Rwanda/Darfur
Cactus
(May 4 06, 14:12)So the invasion of Iraq was a humanitarian intervention?
First they said Saddam had WMDs, then they said he was linked to Al Qaeda and was an imminent threat to us all, and now its was a "humanitarian intervention".
Problem i find with that excuse is that probably his biggest crime - the poison gas attack in Halabja, happened in 1988 when the "West", were supplying and acquiecing to Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iran in his American sponsored expedition into Persia.
And that since the 1991 war the UN had maintained a no-fly zone that had rendered the Kurdish north practically independent and had given security to the southern Shia region. (except of course when the Shia's did rise up and Bush Sr permitted Hussein to ruthlessly crush the rebellion - fearing of course that a Shia dominated Iraq would give undue influence to Iran in that region).
I find it pretty fucking spurious to suggest that there was an imminent humanitarian catastrophe awaiting Iraq as there was/is in Kosovo/Rwanda/Darfur.
Oh but there is a humanitarian crisis now, so that's ok.