WAR IS GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: Not only have all the children that Saddam locked up been released, but the terrible environmental damage he caused is beginning to be repaired, as can be seen from these satellite photos. From the UN, no less!
Hopefully someone will credit this environmental clean-up to Bush's account during the 2004 election. I have no doubt that it will win over a great many Green party members.
(Thanks for the photos, OpinionJournal.)
War is good for ignoramuses who have been brainwashed through crude propaganda into believing it to be so.
I was going to rip your pathetic argument to shreds but its seems your first link is broken. No doubt the article would have been in the spirit of the story about Suddam's troops throwing babies out of incubators in the Gulf War, a story that was later discredited as a sick fabrication.
Your second link, an article by a law professor, seems to be less about concern for the environment and more about backing Bush's agenda.
Only a fool would believe one of Bush's priorities is improving the Iraq's environment, he doesn't even care about the USA's environment.
You should watch a Captain America cartoon and cheer on the Captain while he beats the bad guys. Real life is much more complicated.
Sorry my link from eight months ago is broken. I'll try to maintain the internet a little better in the future. If I remember correctly, the article was about a prison for children that later turned out to be an orphanage. That's good, I guess, although it's sad if orphanages look like prisons.
As for war, what's your point? That war is always bad? Is it always worse than the consequences of not going to war? Is it possible that sometimes the best thing "for the children" is that a war be fought?
Plus, intentions aren't all that matters, despite what many leftists think. Results tend to count for a lot more. I doubt that environmental concerns were high on the list of reasons when President Bush decided to wage war against Iraq, but it's still nice to see some peripheral positive consequences, isn't it? Or is every good result irreparably tainted because we didn't get France's approval before we went in?
Bah. And you think my view of life is simplistic?
Good thing war doesnt ever kill children.