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Originally posted by FrayAdjacent911
If it were up to me, I'd invade and overthrow every tyrant on this earth, and bring freedom and democracy to the people. I figured you guys would want the same, since you supposedly support democracy. Or don't you?
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You might, but not everyone agrees. Many even wonder if the money spent on the invasion and "peace" might have been able to accomplish the same thing with less death and destruction.
There are two key things here:
1) Is it
morally right to invade and overthrow dictatorships/governments purely because they aren't free or have human rights abuses? Or does it simply replace the concept of sovereignty with the moral standpoint of the largest/richest/most powerful country.
2) The war in Iraq was sold on WMD/terror links/Saddam=bad man. That memo
specifically refers to Washington's intention to fit the facts to the (pre-determined) justification. You (American people) were mislead - apparently deliberately - as to the strength of the case against Iraq. The case has since fallen down - precisely because the outcome was decided in absence of the facts.
War and invasion is not the only way of solving the world's problems, and this memo tends to suggest that your government (and that in the UK) has a remarkably cavalier attitude to other nations' sovereignty, their civilians, and the UN. Interestingly, this doesn't appear to extend to North Korea ---> the hypocrisy is spread pretty thick on that.