“The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the worst foreign policy decision in U.S. history,” — George F. Will national column, Nov. 12, 2014.
Given the chaos that our invasion triggered, it’s hard for an objective observer to quibble with Will. The killing of Christians in Iraq started right after we toppled Saddam, and the shiite crazies were free from under his boot.
I’d prefer to retain my opinion on why we choose to go after Saddam....and all that entailed why that decision was made.
BTW Islam never has stopped killing Christians.
The killing of Christians began BEFORE we toppled Saddam. Zarqawi’s Baghdad cell- in 2002 gruesomely decapitated a nun in Baghdad under the watchful eye of Saddam Hussein after Zarqawi was treated in a hospital that served regime elites. I doubt she was the only one that was murdered in that convent but it was hard to get news in those days since CNN was refusing to report on the regime for fear Saddam would cut them off from access.
There were supposed to be three nuns there the night Sister Cecilia was killed in August 2002. One report said the others were elsewhere when the three assassins showed up, so they converged on her. It was thought the murder was intended to be a message to the west by the regime as the regime showed no interest in condemning the attack or in solving the murder.
Iraq’s regime was wiping out Christian villages in northern Iraq in the late 1970s; jews as well... to alter the area’s demographics to the advantage of the regime. Apparently the regime’s token Christians like bribemaster Tariq Aziz didn’t object.
In the 80s the regime, being socialist, had no trouble turning ire towards Zoroastrians in an effort to turn Iraqi shia against Iran, claiming Iran was really a Zoroastrian state and the conflict was between the whole of Islam verses the Zoroastrian Persians. The regime at that time pumped some money and resources into shia communities to try to divide the shia loyalties.
And the Anfal campaign didn’t just kill muslim Kurds... Christians were killed in that, too.
Not to mention the regime forcibly relocated the religious oddities the Yazidis, kicking them from their rural homes into the town of Sinjar. [The regime had built “cities” - really prison camps, some enclosed by wire- in which to contain Kurds.]
Not to mention what the regime did to the Marsh Arabs.
Unlike ISIS the regime didn’t advertise. Unlike ISIS the regime owned the press, even foreign press- buying off the media with shiny Mercedes cars.