Why Dems Supported War In Bosnia But Not Iraq
JohnC
http://www.sayetright.blogspot.com/
Recall that when the left was trying to undermine America's will to
liberate the Iraqi people and remove Saddam Hussein -- the genocidal,
terrorist linchpin in the world of Arab/Islamic atrocities -- the
obstructionists offered an ever-changing line of "reasoning."
First, they argued, it was "morally wrong" to remove the leader of a
sovereign nation. When that argument failed to gain traction the line
became that the President could not act without Congressional approval.
When the President gained the overwhelming approval of the Congress the
tack changed to a demand for United Nations' authority. When the
Security Council came back with a unanimous decision in favor of the
coalition the tack changed again, with the left screaming that America
cannot go to war unless it faced an "imminent threat of attack."
All of these efforts were, of course, disingenuous. Clearly if the
Democrats truly believed it was "wrong" to remove the leader of a
sovereign nation they would have been marching in the streets screaming
"No Blood For Sex" when the previous president launched wars against
Bosnia and Kosovo removing from power the sovereign leader Slobodan
Milosevic.
If their protestations were based on their true "values" the left would
have been chanting "Clinton is Hitler" when he went to war without
Congressional approval or UN sanction in order to defeat nations that
were not only not an "imminent" threat to America but no threat to
America at all.
Milosevic had never had -- much less ever used -- weapons of mass
destruction, he was not aiding or abetting global terrorist
organizations nor did he have rape and torture chambers throughout his
nation as did Saddam Hussein. In fact even the "ethnic cleansing" he'd
supposedly committed -- ginned up and exaggerated in the way that
Newsweek, CNN and the New York Times, will do -- was minor in
comparison to the then on-going genocide of the Marsh Arabs and the
massacre of Kurds, the murder of Shiites and even the horrific
execution of his fellow Sunnis by the Iraqi dictator.
So given, then, that none of the protestations of the leftists was
based on any true conviction, why did the Democrats' support multiple
wars in the Balkans where so little was at stake and nothing to be
gained but employed -- and continue to employ -- every conceivable lie
they could fathom to obstruct the liberation of the Iraqi people and
the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East?
The answer can be found in that the Democratic party, dominated as it
has been for the last several decades by "multiculturalists," does not
believe democracy to be in any way superior to any other form of
government -- including fascists dictatorships. Multiculturalists
believe that all people, cultures, religions and forms of government to
be equally good and equally right.
This is why the Democrat so adores the United Nations where genocidal
dictatorships and free and open democracies are offered equal prestige
and equal power and why we are admonished to "celebrate diversity" as
if all differences -- genocide and tolerance for example -- are equally
worthy of celebration.
Whereas most Americans saw the end of the Cold War and the spread of
democracy throughout much of the world as a great advancement for
civilization the Liberal saw it as nothing short of evil.
First, since no culture or form of government is superior to any other,
there could be no explanation for the global embrace of democracy
except some form of chicanery on the part of the West and, second,
because, in replacing "equally good" forms of government -- such as
communism and fascism -- the democrats (lower case "d") were "wiping
out" other "equally good" forms of government. To the Democrat (upper
case "D") the spread of Western values such as freedom and democracy is
nothing short of "cultural genocide."
Arguments such as "one cannot impose freedom" and the laughable leftist
chant of "one-two-three-four we don't want your racist war" reflects
the notion that the Democrat has that freedom is an "imposition" and
that the quest for liberty is a cultural value unique to the Western
world and those who work for its spread are undermining the cherished
values -- fascism, terrorism, etc. -- of another peoples.
This is why the childish chant of "Bush is Hitler" is so easily
embraced not just by the mindless minions using daddy's computer to
send hate mail to the pundits cheering the advance of freedom, but by
the very leadership of the Democratic party. To the "multiculturalists"
Bush's efforts to spread Western-style freedom and democracy is an act
of jingoism and xenophobia on par with Hitler's attempts to spread the
Nazi doctrine.
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If one wants to understand why the Democrats supported the wars on
Bosnia and Kosovo but not the one that liberated millions in Iraq
simply consider what victory in each of these wars would bring. In Iraq
it brought freedom, democracy and a defeat for the Islamic fascists. In
Bosnia and Kosovo victory meant the protection and strengthening of the
Islamic movement.