North Korean aggression

[FoxyPV]

depends what you consider to be provocation.

The middle east contains a fair bit of oil giving certain countries a large source of income from the US, UK, Japan and similar countries. They can use this as leverage and up the price of oil to what ever they want given our dependence on said oil.

With a dictator such as saddam in charge the profits were no doubt going straight into his and the major regime benefactors pockets meaning the rich get richer while the general public spiral towards poverty. If the americans bring down this regime and establish a democracy in the countries in question ensuring the money filters down to the general public.

Therefore you could argue the iraq war was for the good of iraq and provoked by the mistreatment of its citizens by the saddam regime.

I'll reconsider my statement and say it was provoked and the provocation was the amount of oil that Iraq had that persuaded US led coalition forces to invade under the guise of democracy.

The majority of the money gained from the oil is going outside of Iraq.Here

This was a regime that the US had help set up as was the Taliban (lest we not forget).

[shen]

depends what you consider to be provocation.

The middle east contains a fair bit of oil giving certain countries a large source of income from the US, UK, Japan and similar countries. They can use this as leverage and up the price of oil to what ever they want given our dependence on said oil.

With a dictator such as saddam in charge the profits were no doubt going straight into his and the major regime benefactors pockets meaning the rich get richer while the general public spiral towards poverty. If the americans bring down this regime and establish a democracy in the countries in question ensuring the money filters down to the general public.

Therefore you could argue the iraq war was for the good of iraq and provoked by the mistreatment of its citizens by the saddam regime.

That's not a foreign thing in democratic countries or otherwise. I don't know where you get the idea from that democracy necessarily evens out the wealth among a countries' citizens. Just read the latest wealth inequality figures from the US for example...

[Flynny]

Bush Snr supposedly regretted only liberating Kuwait and not removing Saddam, and plans to invade were mooted in the Clinton administration too. I'm torn on Iraq, I certainly think that the people of Britain in particular were somewhat misled but WMDs weren't really the reason for going in, only a readily understandable pretext to present to the masses.