Question:
Is Liberating iraq considered an act of Socialism?
anonymous
2010-06-29 11:49:35 UTC
Trillions of dollars are being used to " Liberate " Iraq, These are tax dollars. Is that socialism? I read a poll today that 88% of the residents there said the country was better off before the US invaded them. But all this is acceptable socialism right? Republicans want to moan and cry that obama is bankrupting america with his healtcare bill, which will help americans who are dying on a daily basis because they cant afford coverage, will safeguard people with preexisting conditions , and keep people covered who are ill from getting dropped. But you want to spend it on IRAQ? Since the Invasion of Iraq/ Afrgan, we have got 25000 bad men from the middle east. that means it cost the Tax Payer 250-500 Million dollars For every terrorist we get. How can you justify blowing that kind of money when ours is going down. If the Government put 15 billion dollars a month into the Infrastructure of the Country, That would drop unemployment drastically, secure our borders, and we could probably afford to put a bullet proof bubble over the USA. Why do you republicans not feel bad for sick people, or poor people, but you feel good about wasting tax money on " Liberating" A country who says things were better before we got there? You feel sorrier for a foreigner than a sick or poor american?????
Seven answers:
anonymous
2010-06-29 11:51:20 UTC
It's a modern day version of Imperialism.
Gadfly
2010-06-29 19:07:32 UTC
No

When posters like you scoff at the fact that we liberated Iraq by putting it in quotations it only displays your lack of understanding of what it was like in Iraq before we intervened. The left claims to care about humanity but is unwilling to do anything about the worst cases of genocide and atrocity.

The fact that Saddam claimed to have WMD and all major intelligence services around the world believed it and the fact that he had used them on his own people is always conveniently overlooked. Had we done nothing and Hussein had supplied WMD to terrorist or continued his crimes against his own people, you would be criticizing our inaction.



WMD aside, we put a stop to the things depicted in the videos on the page linked below. From your sheltered life you can not conceive of the conditions there before we intervened.



Warning if you have a weak stomach do not watch these videos of the atrocities Saddam committed. They make anything we did at Abu Ghraib look like a child's birthday party. (note, these videos are too large to stream. You must right click and download them to view them)



“Television news, understandably, will not broadcast such videos. But they are, nevertheless, an important record of Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity that should be available to the public"
BS
2010-06-29 19:01:11 UTC
No , liberating a country is not Socialism. Ask France and Germany if they wished we would've let them fall during WWII. Look up the definition of Socialism.

The health care bill you refer to will not only bankrupt the health insurance companies , but our own govt. when they have to pick up the bill for everyone. We will be taxed to death to pay for you, so no one will be able to afford insurance so we will all have to get on govt. health care.

Try to be more self reliant instead of a moocher and you would see our side of it.
robzuc97
2010-06-29 18:56:47 UTC
Typical "Repubs want you to die" BS; people die from diseases and injury, not from "lack of coverage"! Meanwhile, let's ignore that Obamacare doesn't REALLY solve any of these "problems" but simply redistributes the [health care] wealth among the Obama oligarchy. In this fantasy of yours, I can't guess when it is that Tinkerbell will finally make you a man instead of the sock puppet you are. I read this "in a poll today"...
anonymous
2010-06-29 18:51:18 UTC
No.



It is more an act of "imperialism."



Iraq was a problem, but Afghanistan and fighting the Taliban and capturing Osama is where all of our attention should have been.
See The Numbers, Feel The Pain
2010-06-29 19:08:16 UTC
I like how you provide no source for this poll.



You really believe they were happy with Saddam?
jdman13
2010-06-29 19:03:24 UTC
Amazing, I can't seem to find your 88% poll, can you put a link, bet you won't.


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