Originally Posted by SSwrath
Yes bush are the head of evil people in the world.
iam from Iraq but thanks to Bush i had to leave my country because he destroyed Iraq totally and they are still doing that.
did you know guys that after the Americans occupied Iraq they left the borders open for 6 MONTHS!!!!! do you know what that means? that means that millions of Al-Qaida went in Iraq and no one could stop them.
i didn't have even the slightest idea what Al-Qaida was untill after the Americans occupied my coutry and they brought it with them.
and guys fell free to ask me more info on Iraq war because in april 2003 i was in Baghdad as i used to live their.
and believe me all of you even those who thinks american army is good and they are helping Iraq. THEY ARE NOT HELPING they are destroying Iraq even while we are speaking they are doing that.
Typically I don't get involved in politics in NF but I couldn't help but respond to this post. First of all, I would like to remind everyone that Saddam Hussien and "Chemical" Ali used poison gas to kill thousands of Iraqi citizens in Kurdistan. If that isn't enough, he also sowed land mines in their fields, deforested their forests, and destroyed a crap ton of their towns and villages. I was in Iraq too and I saw the after effects of what Saddam did. There is well documented evidence that this occurred by 3rd party independent news sources. The second thing I would point out is that after the invasion of Kuwait in 1991 we recovered munitions and stores of chemical weapons from the Republican Guard. So to say that were were never any weapons of mass destruction is inaccurate.
If killing a few thousand Kurds with nerve agent and ruining the countryside wasn't enough, in his spare time Saddam raised two evil sons. Uday, in particular was amazingly brutal. I too was in Baghdad and I observed several small huts. I didn't know what they were until the IA there told me that when Uday was cruising the streets if he saw a woman he wanted to screw, his guards would take her to the palace. If she didn't sleep with Uday, he'd put her in one of these huts in 120 degree heat with no food or water until either she died or complied. Many of them were young teens or married. He simply didn't care. Here is a nice link to some of Uday's other hobbies as the head of the sports commision:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,444889,00.html
I also was at Abu Graib. Yea, what the idiot soldiers did there was bad, but that was nothing compared to what we found from the Saddam's "intelligence officer". In my army an intelligence officer is someone that collects pictures, eyewitness statements, reports from units and compiles them into briefings for his commander. In Saddam's army an intelligence officer in someone that tortures people into confessions. We got this guy with pictures of his victims, tools he used to do his job and even field manuals on the "how to" torture. The wall inside the prison were all painted green but when we started cleaning we realized they were actually covered in blood and the paint was used to hide it. Saddam also had a round robbin set up where they would shoot prisoners in the head, have other prisoners carry the bodies to a massive incenerator and throw them in. Then those guys would get shot in the head and it would cycle again.
Saddam was no kind person in any sense of the word. What I saw was he was the second coming of Adolf Hitler. Iraqis I talked to were relieved he was gone. I was there in 2005 when Iraq had its first election and although Iraqi Army were protecting the polls we were close by if they needed help. I saw all those people putting their purple covered finger in the air and those people were VERY grateful for George Bush. For the first time ever they had a say in their government.
I had to laugh at the comment on we left the borders open and millions of Al Quida came through in the first 6 months. LOL what kind of drugs are you on? They were already there! The citizens of the local villages directed us to enclaves where Al Quida operatives had been there since Saddam invited them in 1997. They were brutal and evil. My unit got in a big firefight with some from Saudia Arabia and Syria as well as Iran and we killed them. I have no remorse about that what so ever. AND the Iraqi Army that fought with us in the fight were pretty glad to see them go. Also the people of the city who had been dealing with 7 years of outsiders brutalizing them were happy they were dead. Maybe one citizen in Baghdad didn't know Al Quida was in their country but there were quite a few others that all seemed to know.
In fact, when I was stationed with an Armored Cavalry Regiment on the Iranian border, the biggest problem was that the Iraqi border guards were corrupt and were taking bribes. The Iraqi police even arrested a corrupt border guard colonel and he ended up in our custody. I also laughed at "millions" of Al Quida. Even at its height and when heavily reinforced by the mahdi militia, the insurgency never had more than ten thousand.
If that isn't enough, I saw civil affairs units bringing supplies to schools, I saw engineers building police stations. I saw an american army base providing good paying jobs to Iraqis every day: interpeturs, truck drivers, bazaar vendors, janitors to name a few. None of those people would have a dam thing for work if it wasn't for USA help. I SAW Saddam's palaces in Tikrit and Baghdad. In fact, he had one in every city with giant marble collums. I saw a chandelier made out of diamonds that was bigger than my living room. Yea, America has its rich and poor but we don't have the majority of the people living in mud huts while ONE dictator has 18 houses valued at 10 million each.
No, not everything that George Bush did was perfect. Also with half a million American soldiers I expect that some of them did some bad things too. I know they did. But nothing was ANYTHING like what Saddam and his croninies did. I was there too just like you and I know that we have done the right thing. Don't try to snowball the people on here because I'm not the only one that's been to Iraq. There are quite a few of us in these forums.
