Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "Beyond Baghdad (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

  1.  @burtan2000  The Korean War saved over 50 million people from the worst tyranny of the 21st century. Grenadans literally have a holiday celebrating the US invasion of their country. "Golf War Part 1" only lasted a matter of months, accomplished all its objectives, and stopped 5 million people and one of the most oil rich states on Earth from being sucked into an Orwellian tyranny. I don't know why you'd consider any of those a failure.
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  2.  @xuseenfadal  Saddam disappeared 10,000 people a year according to Human Rights Watch.
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  3. "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists." 13,807 vs 122,000. The people you were rooting for did the vast majority of society-crushing.
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  4. You never even spend one second about what the word "imperialist" means before you throw it around. We gave Iraq an independent democracy, no different than Germany, Japan, etc. Is Germany part of an American empire? Are they our colony? No.
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  5. Syria? Why are you blaming the US on Syria? The Syrian civil war was going on for years before the US intervened.
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  6. That's not what we were trying to do. Giving a country democracy is not "turning it into America". We were simply giving them control of their own future. Do you think Americans decided Iraq should have Sadrists serving in parliament and Islam written into its constitution?
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