There Never Should Have Been An Iraq War

1) Non violent protestsThe problem with all the people the Pro quotes is that they spearheaded peaceful movements for people WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRY, not for situations abroad. "maybe some compassion will give them a change of heart"We're not talking about the ugly duckling who only needs love, this is Saddam we are talking about. This guy dropped chemical bombs on his own people and on the Iranians just because he wanted to expand his kingdom. This was a guy who for a while wanted to help exterminate Israel off of the face of the Earth, who harbored terrorists, and who seized power after helping kill the last dictator...... This was NOT a man who could be dealt with simply by showing compassion towards him. I invite the Pro to look back in time to the last time we tried to show compassion towards a cynical leader. His name was Hitler.Appeasement was a term in the 1930's that applied to the foreign policy of letting Hitler annex a few surrounding countries in the hopes that he would be satisfied and not start any world wars or start killing millions of people by both his own hands and through all out war.......... That didnt work so well, and it didnt work for Saddam either when we peacefully asked him to withdraw from occupying Kuwait and he basically told the UN to go f*** themselves...http://www.historyguide.org...http://www.omnibusol.com...http://www.history.co.uk...http://history.howstuffworks.com...2) Relations to the Middle East" the Islamic world and the West have existed since the Crusades"The United States of America wasnt around during the Middle Ages...." and this recent "crusade" has only made relations worse, isn't time it this stopped and we made an effort for peace?"A crusade is defined basically as holy war, this war was not an act of war for religious reasons it was a military operation to remove a tyrant dictator from power and bring peace and stability to a nation that has not lived in freedom since the time of Babylon.... Also we made peace with Iraq, and the resolution here is that the war should not have happened not that it should have ended already, because it already did. "He also massacred his own people" Well bulls@*&%, There were genocides in Rwanda and Guatemala and the U.S.A. did not lift a finger! It is not fair that we invaded Iraq for reasons he was massacring his own people when we did not even pay any mind to the two above-mentioned genocides."I invite the Pro to not refer to genocide as bullsh*t during a debate, it might send the wrong message to voters. I also invite the Pro to use basic brain functions to try to realize that Iraq and Rwanda & Guatemala are two completely different cases. Allow me to summarize - Rwanda and Guatemala - Genocides, - Iraq - Genocides, same dictator for decades, numerous wars started with other nations, use of chemical weapons in warfare, invasion of countries that upset international trade, refusal to withdraw from said conflicts, known for harboring terrorists, frequently denounced the civilized world, elaborate weapons programs, refusal to allow weapons inspectors into the country, etc. See how the odds stack against Iraq yet?"besides, do you really believe in your heart that the U.S. goes to war for honest reasons?" Yep..."You don't believe crooked politics play a part in it?""Nope...."As for other countries that thought he was a tyrant, the U.S. and other western nations gave him a huge stockpile of weapons (which he later used on his own people) to keep Iran's power from expanding into the middle east, So we obviously din't think he was a tyrant when we were loaning him weapons."Im not here to debate that the US has always been right, but if the US gives a country (Iraq) weapons to fight a far more hated enemy (Iran), and then that country that has the weapons (Iraq) starts blowing up its OWN people with those weapons (Iraq again) than not only does that make Iraq look completely psychotic, but it also gives the entire world a very good reason to hate Saddam (using chemical weapons on his own people to create atrocious acts of human rights violations)As for those events, the Iran-Iraq war happened 20 years before the US and its allies invaded Iraq. In those 20 years Iraq went far from being an unstable ally to a dire threat to world peace, threat to the security of nations, threat to the safety and basic human rights of people, threat to world economies, etc. " when Osama Bin Laden died nobody cheered for his death (info courtesy of FOX news) "Pro.................... Osama Bin Laden and 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq.................... Stop watching Fox News.........