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Originally Posted by BrightNail
The reason we were attacked and the reason we are hated is because of our international nation building philosophy. As noted, our sanctions in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east, have resulted in the deaths of 100's of thousands of civilians... yes, think on that.
There's not much to "think on" since your assertions are completely and utterly without merit
1. The sanctions regime was instituted after the conclusion of the First Persian Gulf War, which-need I remind you-was initiated by the Hussein regime. They were enforced with the consent of the United Nations Security Council, of which the United States is but one member.
2. The amount of people who starved to death because of international sanctions is a subject of some dispute-although I'm glad that you boned up on this issue enough to invoke the sparkingly precise "hundreds of thousands" figure, good job there-but what is not subject to dispute is the fact that Saddam Hussein, with the connivance of an inherently corrupt U.N. bureaucracy and with the assistance of a multitude of avaricious foreign allies, diverted most of the funds that should have devoted to feeding his people to opulent palaces and sex orgies for his masochistic, demented heirs.
3. What "nation-building" philosophy would be that? Your contention is that containing Iraq somehow provoked the 9/11 massacre initiated by a Saudi terror kingpin living in Afghanistan so I can only assume that you believe this ill will existed prior to our second invasion of and subsequent occupation of Iraq. What "nation-building" were we doing in Iraq, which was not occupied at the time, which engendered such enmity, just out of curiosity?