Hello? We didn't have treaties with anyone in Europe. We have plenty of Kurds and Iraqis living here. The concentration camps never entered into it.
Your reasons for why the US entered WW2 are as bogus as your reason why we shouldn't have gone to war in Iraq.
Anyone excpt England, France and Italy.
Treaty of Versailles
Signed on June 28, 1919, by Germany on the one hand and by the Allies (save Russia) on the other, the Treaty of Versailles embodied the results of the long and often bitter negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
The outstanding figures in the negotiations leading to the treaty were Woodrow Wilson for the United States, Georges Clemenceau for France, David Lloyd George for England, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando for Italy—the so-called Big Four. Germany, as the defeated power, was not included in the consultation.
1930 – 1939 World History — Infoplease.com
-------This of course led to the formation of the "League of Nations". While Woodro Wilson did negociate, the Senate refused to sign, but the US held to the tenats of the treaty.
barely a hundred thousand Kurds live here.
I'm guessing less than a hundred thousand Iraqis live here permanently.
How many English, German and Italian live here. I suspect quite a few more.
As far as I know no one took any treaty obligation seriously. The impetus was simply Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. If they hadnt done that I doubt we would have entered the war. Roosevelt had tremendous opposition even to Lend-Lease.
And fwiw, the Germans living here largely supported Hitler, as did the Irish.
But since you mention treaties and such, recall that at least one reason adduced for Iraq was to enforce UN resolutions. Lots of them.
So we leveled a country because they refused to follow a UN resolution that you "seem" to remember?
You people should stop splitting hairs and really look at the reality that is Iraq.
First, 15 of the 16 bombers were from Arabia.
Iraq is over 10 thousand miles away and never attacked the US.
Iraq was not in cahoots with al Qaeda. Saddam had enough problems without inviting an extremist organization that would be a threat to his own power.
It was al Qaeda that attacked the US.
Iraq's people are not better off.
Women's groups in Iraq say their lives were better under Saddam. I have put many links to this. Women now have to be escorted by a male relative. They are not allowed to work. Most no longer receive health care.
The Christian population have said their lives were much better and safer under Saddam. Many held positions of power. The were free to practice their religion. Since the invasion, their numbers have gone from an estimated 1.2 to 1.4 million to an estimate of less than 400,000. The churches have been burned. Many of their woman have been forced into Muslim marriages and forced to convert to Islam. Bush did NOT allow them to immigrate here. They were NOT protected by the US.
Republicans say that Iraqis are now "free" to have the government they want.
The new Iraqi Constitution makes "Islam" the National Religion. Article 2 and 3 states that all legislation is to be based on Islam. Iraq has announced in the constitution, that it is in the family of the Arab League of Nations, which of course, leaves out any non Arabs or Muslims.
This has opened the door to Sharia law and murder of gays and women and men who have been accused of adultery.
Iraq was a counter balance to Iran in the Middle East. That no longer exists.
Republicans are fixated on Saddam's "rape rooms". While there is no "proof" that the US government gave out blanket infected with "smallpox" to decrease the American Indian population, there is plenty of evidence that the US used blacks as experimental lab rats for generations knowingly letting them spread syphilis to wives and children, "Even when they had the cure". Even when many of these men joined the military to fight for "freedom" during WWII, the government purposely kept them infected with a fatal disease that causes delusions, insanity and host of horrific symptoms "just to see what would happen". We are not nearly as "pure" as Republicans want to believe they are. (Funny how Republcians are always trying to push their "morals" on everyone else, but they are out screwing anything that moves)
And so what did this "success" in Iraq bring us. Trillions of dollars of debt. Thrown shoes. A country that pretty much ignored us and now hates our guts and wants to see us die a painful death. This is the Republican definition of "WE WON". That's the reality. That's "How it is". The unvarnished truth.
