Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Well I don't know what to tell you, they didn't ethnically cleanse any specific group of people, they actively tried to avoid civilian casualties, and they put the leader they were trying to get rid of in power to begin with so if they have the power to put him in office they should have the poiwer to take him out of office. And they are trying to rebuild infrastructure in Iraq too.

And I fail to see how we have benefitted from this war
Well, bombing the center of Bagdad with intelligent bombs isn't what I call trying that much to avoid civilian casualties but anyway... millions of peoples dead for a wrong war, for something they knew didn't exist (WMD), trying to remove Hussain, their ex puppet, to put a new one instead (Paul Bremmer among others) isn't that enough? Sure they want to repair the infras, no infras, no money from petrol plus it is just normal to rebuild what you've wrongfully destroyed, no? Especially when you make money with the companies re-building it (Halliburton, KBR, Carlyle Group) when YOU have shares into these companies and your friends too...
THE US didn't benefit from the war for sure, it went all wrong despite the poor Rumseld and Cheeney's claims. HOwever, these peoples, Cheeney, Rumsefeld, Bush, Rice, made hundred of millions of profit from the shares into their companies and stuff. They do not exactly worry about the economic crisis, losing a loved one to war or even how they will pay their life insurance, these are details for them.
You know Lyle, you don't have to make a ethnical cleansing to be sentenced to war crime trials, killing a few thousand peoples is plainly enough. And they killed more than 2 millions. Just because they wanted their oil.