IRAQ WAR AND DEMOCRACY

Has the war in Iraq helped to spread democracy?

Has The War In Iraq Helped To Spread Democracy?

Pros

1. The genocide convention requires all its signatories to do what they can to stop it and punish those responsible.

2. Humanitarian reasons.

3. If US had not invaded civil war would still have happened.

4. Iraq was violating non proliferation treaty, fools around with weapons of mass destruction.

5. Iraq was a constant threat to Israel, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

Cons

1. The overthrow of Saddam has not resulted in any progress against international terrorism.

2. The war did not produce victory for the war on weapons of mass destruction.

3. The U.S. administration contradicted that the time of the occupation will not last long.

4. Bush promised that the situation of Iraqi citizens would improve after the war, which only worsened.

5. Another goal for the invasion of Iraq was to put a new security system in the Gulf region, which only worsened.

Discussion

The genocide convention requires all its signatories to do what they can to stop it and punish those responsible. That's why the US didn't originally recognize the Rwandan genocide as genocide because if they did they would have had to go in. So the genocide convention says that the US should have gone in to Iraq. (Hitchens, 2003)

Iraq was an almost perfectly Orwellian state. Millions starving while elite lived in palaces. Iraqi secret police were murdering and torturing thousands. Having a satellite was punishable by death. Public torture and public executions with families forced to applaud.

Saddam was not going to live forever and sectarian division was only getting more intense while he was in power. Other countries even less concerned with the quality of life of ordinary Iraqis were already trying to invade Iraq. Saudi Arabia Iran and Turkey have all made attempts and there would have been nothing to stop them if coalition forces hadn't been present. If the US had not been there far more people would have died. (Hitchens, 2003)

In Iraq there was no place for the organization (al Qaeda) and the followers of Osama bin Laden feel more secure in Germany or the United States rather than their presence in the State of Saddam Hussein. America is, which came the followers of (al Qaeda) in Iraq and also noted the newspaper «New York Times» The Iraq war was a gift from the U.S. to Osama bin Laden because they helped to provide a new arena for the conflict with him and returned him to the global platform after that defeated his followers in Afghanistan. The military budget for Iraq amounted to 2.0 percent the size of U.S. military spending. For the first time after the attack of 11 September 2001 on the United States has shown the operations opinion poll in twenty Islamic states for the existence of sympathy with Osama bin Laden. (Samir, 2004)

Bush was right when he said that weapons of mass destruction and terrorism highlighted the challenges of political security in the present century, but he ...