Mekstizzle wrote:
More or less, because it was totally different. The people there weren't crying for help, they weren't even protesting or trying to get rid of Saddam. He did some bad shit. But not to the majority on such a genocidal scale, infact give me an example of another person going as crazy as Gaddafi has against the majority of his entire population. Iraq invasion was being propped up by sketchy findings and the whole thing stank. Ultimately, I was about 13 when the whole invasion shit happened so I didn't understand it fully. But I grew up during the stupid occupation that was clearly against the will of most Iraqi's especially when you look at the fucking backlash our troops got, the shit they got themselves into and everything.
It's a completely different scenario compared to Iraq, which turned into a complete clusterfuck. It was all about stopping those bad WMD's and something something terrorism, like I said, the whole thing stank from a million miles away.
Iraq was a whole full invasion, dismantling plus occupation and forcing foreign soldiers on the corners and munitions down the throats of Iraqi's who didn't exactly want that shit.
Come on man, a so called cultured and logical man like yourself should be able to see the differences from a mile away. You can't just say they both involve crazy Muslims and Western forces therefore they're the same, so you have to have the same opinion about shit.
The Kurds and Shi-Ites had a different opinion of Saddam. Anfal campaign?
WIKI:
"In April 1991, after Saddam lost control of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, he cracked down ruthlessly against several uprisings in the Kurdish north and the Shia south. His forces committed wholesale massacres and other gross human rights violations against both groups similar to the violations mentioned before. Estimates of deaths during that time range from 20,000 to 100,000 for Kurds, and 60,000 to 130,000 for Shi'ites.[5]"
"According to The New York Times, "he [Saddam] murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead. His seizure of Kuwait threw the Middle East into crisis. More insidious, arguably, was the psychological damage he inflicted on his own land. Hussein created a nation of informants. friends on friends, circles within circles, making an entire population complicit in his rule".[8] Others have estimated 800,000 deaths caused by Saddam not counting the Iran-Iraq war.[9] Estimates as to the number of Iraqis executed by Saddam's regime vary from 300-500,000[10] to over 600,000,[11] estimates as to the number of Kurds he massacred vary from 70,000 to 300,000,[12] and estimates as to the number killed in the put-down of the 1991 rebellion vary from 60,000[13] to 200,000.[11] Estimates for the number of dead in the Iran-Iraq war range upwards from 300,000.[14] "
How many of his own people has Gaddafi killed in this rebellion?
