Reply #60: Um, we went to Iraq initially based on lies. But we also went

[sabrina 1]

'to save the Iraqis from a Brutal Dictator'. Bush neglected to tell his loyal, though ignorant of history, supporters, that like Gadaffi, the 'brutal dictator' of Iraq was also originally our 'friend'.

Libya was no more about 'saving civilians' than Iraq ever was. Civilians are being brutalized in Libya right now, especially Black Africans, why is NATO supporting the brutalizers?

The truth will reach the supporters of this war, just as it eventually reached the supporters of the Iraq war, hopefully sooner rather than later. But anyone who believes that the Western Imperial Powers ever go anywhere to protect civilians, must not know what is going on in this world. Why did they pick Libya rather than Bahrain, or Syria, or Yemen, or The Congo, or any number of places where there is far more threat to civilians than there ever was in Libya?

The answer is pretty simple actually. The same answer to the question 'why did we go to Iraq when there are so many other places where civilians are threatened'? There IS a common denominator to all our wars. We do NOT do things for altruistic reasons.