Thursday, March 31, 2011

Deciding public opinion on the Iraq war of the Bush 43 Era

http://matzav.com/obama-in-2002-toppling-brutal-dictator-a-%e2%80%98dumb-war%e2%80%99

It took me many years and it was not until just recently that I felt that this particular view of Mr. Obama was in fact the right thinking on Iraq.  I was swayed by Mr. Powell's speech and the purported conversations played of Iraqi military personell supposedly aiming to clean up their fingerprint of WMDs.  That said, the actual bombing of Iraq I think I am still on board with its decision. However the long lasting ground war in my current thinking is quite likely not the aim of True American Interest.  Gladfully, Mr. Hussein was disposed. But that said, there was not a humanitarian crisis in the year that we invaded Iraq.  Had this been done during the time that the Kurds were slaughtered a different perspective may be clear.  That said, I think that we today owe it to the previously Sovereign nation of Iraq and clearly not a pending brink of war nation either to reestablish their prosperity and reestablish their capacity to care for their own people.  
It would be a benevolent act for America to ensure that the hospitals that care for the Iraqis are fit for future needs and that the health care of the nation that we surreptitiously chose to modify by military force is fit to serve the future needs of their people. That does not mean fund their health care, but it does mean that our people would likely need to change any infrastructure that is not functional into functional infrastructure to better provide for the needs of this population.  That is my personal thought on this matter and in no way does the USA have to admit that we were "arrogant or foolish" to make such an invasion.  We did a course of action that likely can be debated for the years ahead but hopefully does ensure stability in the middle east.  Let's hope that the future is healthier than the past.  Thanks.

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