Re: History

Date: March 23, 2004 at 15:59:03
From: Anonymous, [192.231.160.252]
Subject: Re: History

Now that I'm awake I can post a better follow up.

Bush's reason's for getting into the war certainly were faulty. Was he acting out of revenge or religious zeal it does not matter, it doesn't change the fact that we're there now.

It is true that 10,000 Iraqis have been killed as a result of the war. However, this number certainly pales in comparison to the numbers that Saddam accumulated. Over 40 mass graves have been found in Iraq. The US etimates over 300,000 Iraqis were buried there. Human Rights Officials estimate over 500,000. Iraqi political groups say that it is over a million. In Northern Iraq in Saddam's Scorched Earth campaign over 180,000 Kurds died from deadly nerve gas. Over 60,000 Shihites and Kurds were killed when Saddam suppressed their rebellions. It might sound inhuman to say that 10,000 people is a small price to pay, but in comparison to how many had already died and how many more would probably have died had Saddam not been removed, its not quite the same.

North Korea, yes we know they have weapons, yes they are more of a threat. However, has Korea violated UN sanctions more than 14 times in a decade? We never knew for certain that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, nor did we know for certain that they did not. Saddam violated UN sanctions and prevented weapons inspectors from entering the areas they were supposed to be allowed to go. Even when Clinton was president the policy for when Saddam didn't cooperate was to drop some bombs. Remember Operation Desert Fox? Saddam gave more reasons, whereas Korea at least agrees to participate in talks.

We've made our allies think that we're a jerk. So the world goes on. We as the US don't agree with Russia's campaign in Chechnya. It certainly doesn't make us happy that France sold materials and technology to Iraq to produce WMD prior to the first Gulf War. No matter what we will tick people off and vice versa, thats the beauty of having a world of different and conflicting cultural and political views and values.

From the places I've lived and observed it seems that too high of a stress is put on having enough funds for education. People often assume that money is an absolute fix when a greater portion of the time it is a lack of quality teachers that are able to find creative ways to use their available resources to engage their students. There is no drive either for students to be educated. American youth are guaranteed so much that in high school there becomes little drive to put forth real effort.

Many foreign countries have even less to spend on education, however the desire to learn and become educated drives students in other countries to excell even at young ages. What desire is there in America?

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