jakefeatherstone
Banned
It was wrong. The Shia Arabs in Iraq were far far more pro-American in 1991 then 2003. They trusted us in 1991, they trusted our word that if they rose up we would help them. We lied and hundreds of thousands of Shia were butchered.
What we did was horrible and unexcusable and the fact is after the second Iraq war that the Shia could never trust us which was a massive gift to Iran. Iraq still didn't have to end up in Iran's sphere, but lets just say I would grade Obama on Iraq worse then Bush... hell worse then first term Bush.
But as to what we did in 1991.
It was at the moral level of say FDR telling the French to rise up against the Germans in May of 1944 and promising to help them and them doing so and then FDR signing a peace deal with Hitler a few days later and just standing by and watching as hundreds of thousands of French men, women and children end up getting butchered.
But, because they were Arabs the West has a huge huge double standard in regards to what we did in regard to the Shia.
Agreed. Abandoning those people was disgusting and is a stain on our national honor. We did the same thing to the Republic of Vietnam.