Those people live under a brutal dictatorship, but we didn't invade and restore democracy there as we did in Iraq? They also don't have weapons of mass destruction, like Iraq, but we sat back and let them be brutalized by their dictators? Why did Iraq happen to be the lucky one to get liberated, but not those two. Did our government just randomly select it? It's not like we went in there because it represented a threat to us as they had no weapons of mass destruction? Yet not invade other countries that have Jihadist-training camps, i.e., The Philippines, Indonesia, Lebanon, Syria, etc. Why just Iraq? Why didn't we go into the Muslim portion of the Philippines and put an end to it? Anti-Western scum, yeah, that's a brilliant rationale there. By the way, I've lived and travelled in non-Western societies, i.e., Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, and they were quite nice, and no they are Asian societies, not Occidental ones even if they do have a lot of Western technology.
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Answer is simple Zimbabwe or Burma aka Myanmar don't serve any purpose to U.S
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Because Burma and Zimbabwe do not have any oil...I mean WMDs.
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Because Zimbabwe and Burma weren't planning (and don't even have the capacity) to attack us.
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Oh I am 1000% for going to Zimbabwe and hanging Mugabe and everybody who approves of him. But that would make too much sense and besides American blacks and white liberals would cry racism.
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There's no oil in Zimbabwe or Burma. We have no strategic interests in those countries.
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Blood for Oil. The dead Iraqi's are not feeling liberated. The country is now more corrupt than it was with Saddam.
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The 'untamed fire of freedom' that Bush bullshitted about during his second inaugural address only extended to those places in which America had a vested interest. The Bush admin didn't care a toss for the problems of the people under Mugabe or Than Shwe...and frankly, nor does any other admin.
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Zimbabwe and Burma are not next to Iran.Which is why i believe we are really in Iraq .Getting rid of Saddam was just extra frosting.
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because blacks dont stay liberated for long whats point better off helping some 1 that could actually cope without training wheels and handouts for life
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well its your call liberals, i vote Cuba next but that's just me :D
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Oil
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If Zimbabwe and Burma start training terrorists there that want to attack the USA, then let's go. You guys always conveniently forget that Congress agreed to invade Iraq. And the UN stalled and stalled about handling Hussein and his complete disregard for the so-called "international law" you guys are constantly spouting. Please read more.
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Why is obama trying to turn America into Zimbabwe?
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They don't run terrorist camps and fund attacks on American interests and attack Western countries, you stupid f*cking anti-Western scum. Why don't you go live in a nonWestern country since you hate the West so much, you vile enemy within lowlifes?
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Because they don't want us dead.
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no oil..plane and simple.....
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I lived in Zimbabwe and worked with their government. They are sort of outside our sphere of interests. The British, South Africans, and Chinese are closer to them than we are, so we defer to their judgment. They are not a threat to any of our allies, and they don't have anything we need. We observe sanctions, and send them a bit of food aid, but not much else.
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You are correct. Clearly when the U.S. spreads democracy, it's only to those nations that "deserve" it. If Iraq were located in central Africa with Saddam Hussein as its dictator. And if Iraq's most abundant natural resource were not oil, and it was something like kumquats, we would have not give them a second look. What's really disturbing was how Bush Jr. played to America's fears. Bush said, "Iraq is a member of the Axis of Evil", and "He used poison gas on his own people". But Jr .intentionally left out the important stuff. The U.S. was the main contributor of arms and technology to Iraq (and our sworn enemy Iran) in the 1980s. But we didn't spread democracy to suck up all their oil there. We did that to muscle OPEC, and control the flow of Texas Tea. That's where the global power is at.
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We wanted their oil. There was no WMDs and the nation was lied into a war. I guess liberation is convenient only if the nation has something valuable to offer. We should have stopped Saddam in the 80s when he was killing off his own people!
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Well Ted, it’s like this; Iraq had become one of the world’s most dominant Jelly Bean producing nations and was poised to dominate the Jelly Bean market by offering their high quality Jelly Beans at less than half the price of their top competitors. After years of artificially propping up the cost of Jelly Beans by the U.S. distributors, Iraq became a threat to the profit margins of U.S. Jelly Bean companies. It was all about the Jelly Bean Industry in the U.S.A. I hope this clears things up for ya.
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