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**-=Rousseau=-** · 02-26-2008, 08:23 PM

Were we attacked? Not until Pearl Harbor, and we were already heavily involved in the war by then. We just hadn't officially declared. (US subs engaged German U-boats, we sent everything but troops over to Europe.)

Even when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, this did not necessitate our entry into the European theater of the war. We fought WWII on 2 fronts: Europe and the Pacific. We could have fought purely in the Pacific, we just used the Pacific front as a reason to enter the war full force. (In fact, FDR wanted to enter the war much earlier, but didn't have public support. Look up isolationism and anti-war sentiments prior to WWII.)

2. What lies, praytell? Bad intel doesn't always equal lies. Plus, it's not like we didn't know that Iraq had WMD at some point in time - they f'n used them on the Kurds prior to the Gulf War.

3. WWII wasn't free either

4. We thought we would be freeing them. Who knew that being united by a dictator was the only thing keeping them from killing each other?

5. I already mentioned how many died because of Saddam. Those who died because of the US invasion by other forces, IE the mahdi, sadr, and the Afghani commandos aren't exactly caused by the US - they are unfortunate results that wouldn't have been predicted - unless you just assume that dictatorships are the only thing holding the ME together at all, and if you take out a dictator, everyone will kill each other.

Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of US bombing, I can assure you, are a heck of a lot lower than the 300,000+ that I already mentioned occurred during WWII and our bombing of Japan/Dresden. WWII was not without its displaced citizens, either.

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This is NOT a thread where I'm trying to support the Iraq War. What you have failed to realize, in going with the group-think, is that I'm asking why WWII is regarded so positively... You can only argue so much that WWII was in defense of our nation - it was really about defending our ideals of democracy, etc.

02-26-2008, 08:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
-=Rousseau=- Where Was I? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 713 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium My System	Re: Iraq War vs. WWII Were we attacked? Not until Pearl Harbor, and we were already heavily involved in the war by then. We just hadn't officially declared. (US subs engaged German U-boats, we sent everything but troops over to Europe.) Even when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, this did not necessitate our entry into the European theater of the war. We fought WWII on 2 fronts: Europe and the Pacific. We could have fought purely in the Pacific, we just used the Pacific front as a reason to enter the war full force. (In fact, FDR wanted to enter the war much earlier, but didn't have public support. Look up isolationism and anti-war sentiments prior to WWII.) 2. What lies, praytell? Bad intel doesn't always equal lies. Plus, it's not like we didn't know that Iraq had WMD at some point in time - they f'n used them on the Kurds prior to the Gulf War. 3. WWII wasn't free either 4. We thought we would be freeing them. Who knew that being united by a dictator was the only thing keeping them from killing each other? 5. I already mentioned how many died because of Saddam. Those who died because of the US invasion by other forces, IE the mahdi, sadr, and the Afghani commandos aren't exactly caused by the US - they are unfortunate results that wouldn't have been predicted - unless you just assume that dictatorships are the only thing holding the ME together at all, and if you take out a dictator, everyone will kill each other. Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of US bombing, I can assure you, are a heck of a lot lower than the 300,000+ that I already mentioned occurred during WWII and our bombing of Japan/Dresden. WWII was not without its displaced citizens, either. -------------------- This is NOT a thread where I'm trying to support the Iraq War. What you have failed to realize, in going with the group-think, is that I'm asking why WWII is regarded so positively... You can only argue so much that WWII was in defense of our nation - it was really about defending our ideals of democracy, etc.