The War in Iraq

[Kilroy_x]

Originally Posted by KilikOdagawa

The government we have set up there, no matter how terrible it's doing, is having some success. Tell me.. Have you seen the pictures with the Iraqi people holding up signs saying "Thank you America"? Have you? The news will probably never show them.

I've heard anecdotal evidence of such things. What are you arguing? I laid out a number of factors, all of which need to be considered in order to determine what action would minimize negative outcome at this point. It's perfectly possible that every one of those individuals you speak of would be kidnapped, raped, and disemboweled if we left but that fewer people would be killed overall or less disutility would be caused on the whole. It's an ugly consideration and an ugly war, but unless you have a way to accept 1 million deaths as equally or more acceptable than 1,000, it has to be made.

Oh, and good job on apparently reading Zinn jewpin.