Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "Al Jazeera English" channel.

  1. Yes. A poll conducted between March 22 and April 9 found Iraqis thought removing Saddam was "worth it" by a margin of more than 2 to 1. It wasn't until sectarian violence kicked into high gear, in mid-2006, that they changed their tune. They mass murdered each other and blamed Americans.
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  2. I don't get the Castro one. Just because it was so long?
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  3. Better than American leftists crying they are making "starvation wages" while they make more in an hour than these people make in two days.
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  4. To train soldiers against ISIS.
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  5. Thank you.
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  6. If you cared so much about the people killed by the sanctions, why were you railing so hard against the invasion that would stop the sanctions? Iraqis killed under the sanctions (which BTW Cheney called "the most intrusive form of arms control in human history) were silent death. Because ultimately people don't care about human life, they just hate seeing America win.
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  7. And it was silent death. It wasn't only when the invasion that stopped the sanctions came around that so many people started to pretend to care about the Iraqis.
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  8.  @condorX2  Those numbers piggyback off the Lancet study which was thoroughly debunked.
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  9.  @condorX2  The death toll in Iraq has been staggering and tragic, but that doesn't give anyone the right to inflate the numbers to sate the world's bottomless appetite for hate.
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  10. So then don't cry when we support dictatorships.
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  11.  Justin Credible  Venezuela's inflation rate was actually higher in 2018, before the US imposed sanctions, than it has been in 2019.
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  12. Did Iraq have democracy before Saddam?
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  13.  @LuisMedina-pj4be  Point me to any leftwing outlet talking about racism in the Arab world.
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  14.  @LuisMedina-pj4be  Still waiting...
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  15. Including Panama, where 92% of the population approved of said invasion? Or Grenada, which has a holiday celebrating US interventionism in their country?
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  16. 87% of civilians in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces according to Iraq Body Count. They were killed by people who knew you'd blame their atrocities on their American enemies and turn any death and chaos they sewed into a propaganda victory. Look at bizarre events like The July Soccer Bombings. How else do you explain those? Their blood is on the hands of people like you.
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  17. How's that $12.00 minimum wage working out for you, California?
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  18. A survey conducted between March 22 and April 9, 2004 showed Iraqis believed the invasion was "worth it" for ousting Saddam by a margin of more than 2 to 1. It wasn't until mid-2006 when sectarian violence kicked into high gear that they changed their tune. They mass murdered each other, blamed Americans, and then claimed they never wanted to be liberated.
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  19.  @Gengchen82  Or to work in their factories.
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  20. Please, you people rig the game from the start. First you say the US is serving the interests of oil companies, then when we point out it doesn't benefit oil companies to have terrorists blowing up pipelines and the highways used by a oil tankers, you say it's all a plan by the Military Industrial Complex to sell more weapons. So literally anything can be spun as serving US interests to sate your diseased hearts. Also, your number relies on the Lancet study, which was already thoroughly discredited.
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  21. A puppet? Give me a break. Less than one percent of his weapons came from the US according to the International Peace Research Institute. Besides, if he was so awful why are you so butthurt about the US removing him from power?
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  22. Israel's genocide is the only genocide in history where the population getting genocided has exploded in numbers.
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  23. I thought America was a terrible place where everyone was struggling to make ends meet. Why are millions of people risking their lives to come here?
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  24. Liberals want us to import millions of people from countries like this, but will start frothing at the mouth when we import White South Africans because they're racist.
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  25. Bernie Sanders should explain to these people how Walmart pays "starvation wages" (in his own words).
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  26. Our enemies killed far more. 80% of civilians in the Afghan War were killed by the Taliban according to the UN. Yet you were rooting for them.
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  27. Ummm no, actually it was the US who imposed the oil embargo in the first place.
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  28. We should made a deal with Maduro: offer him one American progressives in return for one Venezuelan expatriate. Maduro spent trillions on the poor and increased minimum wage 500X so he's a great leader by their logic.
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  29. The reason he was trading oil for Euros is because the US imposed an embargo on him. Why would the US do that if we only cared about oil?
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  30. That's on Trump, who opposed the Iraq War. Bush respected Iraq's request for withdrawal in the 2008 SOFA.
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  31. Because America is the only country in the world and probably will be blamed for the crimes of its mortal enemies. 85%+ of civilians in Iraq died at the hands of terrorists/militants/insurgents, in large part because they knew any chaos they wrought would become a propaganda victory because people like you would blame America for their deaths.
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  32. Then why do you have such a problem with them isolating themselves?
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  33. 87% of civilians in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces according to Iraq Body Count, rather the people coalition forces were there to kill and capture. No doubt this was in large part because they knew people like you would blame any death and chaos they sewed on their American enemies and turn their atrocities into propaganda victories. The US is the only country in the world that ever has and ever will be blamed for the atrocities of its mortal enemies.
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  34. They are "fomenting" the problems? Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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  35. How is bombing a militia comparable to erasing an entire ethnic group's identity?
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  36.  @LewisWanjia  Please, you don't even think what the word "imperialist" means when you throw it around. The US created an independent country with an elected government: even if it meant Sadrists serving in Iraqi parliament, a SOFA agreement that forbid the US from keeping any permanent bases in the country, Islam written into the Iraqi constitution, Russia being able to use their airspace against our wishes, and the Iraqi government condemning Ms. Iraq from taking a photo with Ms. Israel.
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  37. The vast majority of innocent people in Iraq were killed by the people Americans were not killed by coalition forces. They were killed by people who knew every death that happened in Iraq would be blamed on their Western enemies. People like you created a perverse incentive for insurgents to wreak as much senseless havoc as possible. How else do you explain bizarre events like the July Soccer Bombings, that seemed to target no one in particular.
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  38. They were acting on behalf of the Libyan people. If you claim to believe otherwise, you're telling me that if the West had sided with a dictator shooting down protestors from jets and pulling the plug on hospitalized dissidents, you'd say they were siding with the Libyan people. But we know you'd never do that.
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  39.  @OzmanPrice10934  So you think the West should have known what was best for Libya than the Libyans themselves? People like you call us "imperialists" and "colonialists" yet are the first to throw hate our way when we don't assume we know better than your own people what's best for themselves.
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  40. Because Libyans aren't white.
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  41. Yet the same people who call Bush a war criminal cry when the US gives pocket change to far less brutal dictators to help them fight the likes of Al Qaeda.
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  42. More importantly, it was the people who the US was there to kill and capture who killed the vast majority of civilians. Iraq Body Count estimates more than 85% of Iraqi civilians were killed by terrorists/militias/insurgents, etc.
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  43. Oh please, even you know that doesn't make any sense. How does chaos help anyone extract oil from Iraq. Look at Iraq's oil exports and you'll see they went down during the most violent year. Insurgents/terrorists in Iraq regularly blew up oil pipeline. How does that help us?
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  44. Obama didn't intervene in Syria. Look what happened.
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  45. We're never rewarded for any of the good we do, like leading the fight against Communism even though we'd be the last domino to fall if domino theory were correct, or saving millions of lives from AIDS through PEPFAR, so why should be be punished for the bad?
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  46. "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher. Hugo died right before that happened.
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  47.  @zues9614  Please, you don't even think about what the words "fascist" or "imperialist" mean when you throw them out. Would a "fascist imperialist" US allow Iraqis to elect Sadrists into their army, write Islam into their constitution, allow them to deny us any right to keep permanent military bases in their country in the 2008 SOFA? Etc. Industrialists didn't benefit from the chaos. It was the "freedom fighters" you were rooting for who did, because every death in Iraq was blamed on their American enemies. People like you created a perverse incentive for senseless carnage. How else do you explain bizarre events like the July Soccer Bombings that seemed to target no one in particular and were just to "get attention"?
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  48. More than 85% of civilians killed in Iraq and 80% of civilians in Afghanistan were killed by the people Americans were there to kill and capture. (sources: Iraq Body Count and the United Nations). Part of the reason insurgents in Iraq committed so much senseless carnage is because they knew people like you would blame their American enemies.
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  49. And yet everyone cries about how much it cost us. Funny how that works.
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  50. Only 1% of Saddam's weapons came from the US according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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