Padraig Breathnach wrote:
> this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
> the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>
> >The Iraqis are killing themselves at the moment quite well. Bush and
> >Blair started it all off.
>
> Iraqis, for the most part, are killing one another; it is a very
> divided nation (or state, or place -- whatever).
>
> Bush and Blair did not start it. Saddam created a situation where one
> group, the Sunnis, dominated Shi'ites and Kurds. But even Saddam was
> not at the root of the problem: Iraq is an artifically-constructed
> state created by the west.
>
> What Bush and Blair did was to take a bad situation -- and it was very
> bad under Saddam -- and make it far worse.
It wasn't accelerating towards the point it is at now. You obviously
can't rewrite history and imagine what-if, but the deaths post 'regime
change' are of a far greater magnitute than they were in the period
between the early 90s war and the invasion. Most of the horrific numbers
of deaths caused by Hussein occured in the 80s, when he was tolerated by
the US and UK. So yes, I agree with the general point about Iraq being
an alreadybad situation, but Bush and Blair did a lot more than just
gently tip the balance- they took a tank and rammed the scales over.
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