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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Yes, that clarifies your position somewhat.
With regard to our invasion of Iraq, I still don't understand why people in the Middle East would be angry about it. If the Iraqi people did not want us to invade, then I would understand why people in the Middle East would be angry. But that's not the case. The vast majority of Iraqis wanted us to come in and "liberate" them and get rid of Saddam. All the polls does in Iraq within a year of the invasion showed that.
I can understand why Americans would be angry about us invading Iraq, but for people in the Middle East to have been angry makes no sense. If the Iraqi people were suffering under Saddam and they wanted us to "liberate" them, then nobody in the Middle East should have been upset at the time. The polls done in Iraq even a year after we invaded showed that the huge majority of Iraqis were happy that we came despite the fact that some people got killed and the country was still in bad shape.
Why would you view Iraqis as victims of US agression, if Iraqis don't see it that way at all?
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Who is doing the polls and who is being asked Rupert? Polls can be spun a million different ways. Such is the way of propaganda. Not to say that there werent many people that werent people that were elated to have US intervention but at the same time i think those polls are pretty worthless.
I think Iraqis ARE the victim of US aggression. It is clearly obvious to most that the war was a bad idea. Who were the victims? More than anything, it was the Iraqi citizen. Death by the thousands. Many homeless. Some starving. Lives completely uprooted. I think there victimization goes without saying.
Of course the other victims are the soldiers fighting over there and their families. They had no choice either.
As far as why the other Arab states are angry, many view this as another humiliation to the Arab world. It is yet another example of Western powers dictating the course of action in what they view as a regional struggle.