US coverup of gassing of Kurds, to the present occupation, "immoral" [View All]

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Morality in Iraq, Then and Now

By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, August 27, 2006; Page B07

Change is news, and the important news from the second trial of Saddam Hussein is this: The U.S. government is helping expose the ex-dictator's genocidal assault on Kurdish tribesmen instead of helping hide it.

Welcome the change. But do not rush past the original malfeasance: U.S. officials were directly involved two decades ago in covering up and minimizing the horrifying details that were finally spread on the legal record in a Baghdad courtroom last week. In a long history of U.S. involvement in Iraq stained by official mistakes, betrayals and misunderstandings, the initial coverup of Hussein's Anfal campaign is among its darkest moments.

It is also important to recognize that without the U.S. invasion, these trials would never have occurred. But that in turn underscores a bitter reality that the Bush administration must now confront:

Military intervention can be justified when it changes things for the better. It does not have to be perfect. But conducting a military occupation that has lost the ability to change the situation for the better for those being occupied is unwise and ultimately untenable. It is also immoral. U.S. involvement in Iraq is again perilously close to being just that.


article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501238_pf.html


another winger criticizing the occupation he and his pals couldn't stop blowing their wad off about. He was for the war before he was against it. (or something like that)