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Please guys, stay on topic.

This thread is about the situation in Iraq and Syria.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14048 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 03:31:26
April 05 2017 03:30 GMT
#7841
Ironicaly it took ISIS invading Iraq to make the government reveal that they indeed had found WMD's and were disposing of them. They were the WMD's that we had known them to have as everyone knew they had. The ones we went into Iraq for were of a more fissionable nature.

P6 do you have a suggestion for what would be a good idea or are you just wanting to complain about the situation?
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
April 05 2017 03:37 GMT
#7842
So invading Iraq since 2003 till 2011 nothing was found but when ISIS merged in 2014 there was fear that those WMD would fall in their hands suddenly those WMDs were found? Sounds fishy to be honest.

A good start would be stop supporting the Kurds to create a country that will fuck up Turkey, Syria, Iraq and maybe Iran.
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United States13779 Posts
April 05 2017 03:38 GMT
#7843
On April 05 2017 12:26 Wrath wrote:
If both ends seem equally shitty why did you say that having Assad government is better?

They aren't equally shitty.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43271 Posts
April 05 2017 03:38 GMT
#7844
On April 05 2017 09:47 AssyrianKing wrote:
I thought people already realised what happens when you remove a legitimate government... Iraq? Libya? anyone? Or do you all want to see the world burn and let jihadists have their day...

Are you saying Saddam was a legitimate government?
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 03:47:07
April 05 2017 03:40 GMT
#7845
No, I wanted to bitch. I have strong emotional responses to seeing kids get gassed. The Iraq army is the only silver lining to all this, but they still stop as the border and only contain ISIS.

Short of full nation building, there is no solution. And that one is flawed because we are kinda bad at it. Even if the war stops tomorrow, the country is ruined and is unlikely to rebuild for a decades. Its economy will take a decade to recover. The rebels and anyone unlucky enough to be associated with them will be rounded up and killed. And then we might get some peace for a little while. Until the people Assad is repressing try again.

Wars just lead to more wars. The end of a the Syrian civil war will just lead to another war involving Syria.
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Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
April 05 2017 03:41 GMT
#7846
On April 05 2017 12:38 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2017 09:47 AssyrianKing wrote:
I thought people already realised what happens when you remove a legitimate government... Iraq? Libya? anyone? Or do you all want to see the world burn and let jihadists have their day...

Are you saying Saddam was a legitimate government?


Differently more legitimate than the current sectarian Iran's puppet government at the moment.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14048 Posts
April 05 2017 03:41 GMT
#7847
On April 05 2017 12:37 Wrath wrote:
So invading Iraq since 2003 till 2011 nothing was found but when ISIS merged in 2014 there was fear that those WMD would fall in their hands suddenly those WMDs were found? Sounds fishy to be honest.

A good start would be stop supporting the Kurds to create a country that will fuck up Turkey, Syria, Iraq and maybe Iran.

No those WMD's were there the whole time from when Saddam used them to gas the kurds after we sold them to him. You just don't know the real reason why we went into Iraq and it was because of Nuclear weapons. The Syrians have chemical weapons that they use so your argument is moot about it being the same thing.

A good start would be supporting the kurds to create a country because they're a large ethnic group in the area that doesn't have their own country while everyone around them does. Russia is clearly a more pressing concern to a Kurdish nation if you'd look at a map then all the nations that would lose a region that gives them trouble (other then Iran but Iran hasn't screwed with them).
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United States13779 Posts
April 05 2017 03:49 GMT
#7848
A Kurdistan doesn't really look like a political possibility at this point. Too many important nations in the area opposed.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
April 05 2017 03:51 GMT
#7849
The only nuclear thing they had was destroyed in 1981:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

Good start that includes fucking up 3 countries but hey, suddenly out of nowhere Kurds in Syria, Turkey became oppressed and now we should merge it up with Iraq-Kurdistan and later some land from Iran. Because reasons...
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43271 Posts
April 05 2017 03:52 GMT
#7850
On April 05 2017 12:41 Wrath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2017 12:38 KwarK wrote:
On April 05 2017 09:47 AssyrianKing wrote:
I thought people already realised what happens when you remove a legitimate government... Iraq? Libya? anyone? Or do you all want to see the world burn and let jihadists have their day...

Are you saying Saddam was a legitimate government?


Differently more legitimate than the current sectarian Iran's puppet government at the moment.

Have we all forgotten that Saddam was a dictator who seized power, purged his own party and ran a repressive police state that used poison gas, torture and death squads on its own citizens. For Saddam's Iraq to be more legitimate than anywhere it would have to have some legitimacy.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 04:05:56
April 05 2017 04:05 GMT
#7851
Implying that the current Iraq is not a repressive police state that has secret prisons and death squads that are working on sectarian cleanse around Baghdad. The country is turning into a sink hole due to extreme loyalty to Iran,

At least during Saddam, Iraq was independent and "secular". The loyalty is for Iraq and his party. Not foreign and sectarian party. If you have to choose between the two, which one would you choose?

Edit: Fuck I'm a ghost now, Tank was better icon...
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43271 Posts
April 05 2017 04:21 GMT
#7852
Modern Iraq in a heartbeat. Because at least now we have the pleasure of having seen Saddam hang. Maybe some more people deserve a sudden drop but we definitely got one guy who needed it.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
April 05 2017 04:33 GMT
#7853
Fuck the fact that the country is a sectarian based one.
Fuck the fact that the country is not independent but merely a Governorate follows Iran.
Fuck the fact that secret prisons, death squads are the same but with different loyalties and affiliations
Fuck the fact that the country is on the brake of breaking into two states.

But hey, we got Saddam hang. That what matters.

Sometimes, I just wonder why we are even arguing.
lastpuritan
Profile Joined December 2014
United States540 Posts
April 05 2017 05:16 GMT
#7854
On April 05 2017 12:41 Sermokala wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2017 12:37 Wrath wrote:
So invading Iraq since 2003 till 2011 nothing was found but when ISIS merged in 2014 there was fear that those WMD would fall in their hands suddenly those WMDs were found? Sounds fishy to be honest.

A good start would be stop supporting the Kurds to create a country that will fuck up Turkey, Syria, Iraq and maybe Iran.

No those WMD's were there the whole time from when Saddam used them to gas the kurds after we sold them to him. You just don't know the real reason why we went into Iraq and it was because of Nuclear weapons. The Syrians have chemical weapons that they use so your argument is moot about it being the same thing.

A good start would be supporting the kurds to create a country because they're a large ethnic group in the area that doesn't have their own country while everyone around them does. Russia is clearly a more pressing concern to a Kurdish nation if you'd look at a map then all the nations that would lose a region that gives them trouble (other then Iran but Iran hasn't screwed with them).


Is there an unwritten law somewhere on this earth that grants every ethnicity a nation? Or is this your imperial mind sickens you with a corrupt logic that makes you think supporting an uprising would be a good policy. This attitude needs to end, from individual levels, to international grounds. It's nothing but next level map designing that people cursed GB for almost a century, what makes you think yours would work?
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5296 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 06:54:46
April 05 2017 06:48 GMT
#7855
the other side take on it:
"Yesterday, from 11:30 am to 12:30pm local time, Syrian aviation made a strike on a large terrorist ammunition depot and a concentration of military hardware in the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun town," Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konoshenkov said in a statement posted on YouTube.

"On the territory of the depot there were workshops which produced chemical warfare munitions.

He said the chemical munitions had been used by rebels in Aleppo last year. "The poisoning symptoms of the victims in Khan Sheikhoun shown on videos in social networks are the same as they were in autumn of the previous year in Aleppo," Konoshenkov said."
so, they shot a depo/its vicinity and it leaked chemical gases.
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
April 05 2017 07:12 GMT
#7856
Yeah... Because they would actually say "oops, we did it yeah sorry...". Why the fuck would you strike chemical warfare munitions if it will be released on civilians. What is the difference at this point if you dropped the chemicals directly or bombed the "chemical munitions".

The one who used chemicals was Assad. He started using to force the rebels back after advancing in northern Hamah.

Also, Israel confirmed that it has clear evidence that it was Assad's planes which dropped the bombs and it would send it to US.
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4359 Posts
April 05 2017 07:13 GMT
#7857
So Assad apparently uses chemical weapons against his own people just as ISIS is almost defeated, leading to the very real chance of a western ground invasion to remove him.

Stinks to high heaven.Amazing how fast Assad was blamed though.Almost like the west is trying to justify yet another war escalation.John McCains got a stiffy right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 07:39:38
April 05 2017 07:21 GMT
#7858
Why do you think the West want to remove Assad?
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 07:39:49
April 05 2017 07:39 GMT
#7859
fucked up edit and quote...
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5296 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-05 09:41:00
April 05 2017 09:38 GMT
#7860
On April 05 2017 16:12 Wrath wrote:
Yeah... Because they would actually say "oops, we did it yeah sorry...". Why the fuck would you strike chemical warfare munitions if it will be released on civilians. What is the difference at this point if you dropped the chemicals directly or bombed the "chemical munitions".

The one who used chemicals was Assad. He started using to force the rebels back after advancing in northern Hamah.

Also, Israel confirmed that it has clear evidence that it was Assad's planes which dropped the bombs and it would send it to US.
- Assad dropped the bombs, that's obvious; no need for proof.
- they might have not known about those workshops producing chemical weapons(kind of a long shot or implies some kind of set up), if that was the case.
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
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