Why when Saddam cracked down it was called genocide but when the US does it its called liberating?

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http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2575&Itemid=2

BAGHDAD, Apr 12 (IPS) - Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.

"Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member from Sadr City in Baghdad told IPS. "He is a worse dictator than Saddam; he has killed in less than two years more than Saddam killed in 10 years."

Following the failed attempt by the U.S.-backed al-Maliki to crack down on the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the situation in Iraq has become much worse. Iraq appears to be splintering more widely under this rule than under Saddam's.

Fierce fighting has broken out between Sadr's Mehdi Army and Maliki's army and police forces in Baghdad, which comprise mostly the Badr Organisation militia, the armed wing of the political group, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC).

According to statistics compiled by the U.S. military in Baghdad, there has been a sharp increase in attacks against U.S. and Iraqi security forces, from 239 in February to 631 in March. Most of these attacks are believed to have been carried out by the Mehdi Army.

[Juche]

1. Because people believe it

Why is fair trade (which benefits people and the environment) written of as a bad goal while free trade (which places corporations first) treated as a laudable goal?

Why do poor people hate social programs and socialism?

Why did we invade Iraq in 1991 to turn away an aggressive invader who wanted to conquer the oil supplies, then turn around and aggresively invade Iraq in 2003 to conquer the oil supplies?

[seemslikeadream]

2. when Saddam cracked down it was called genocide

I can understand why some folks can't come to terms with what we are doing there now, it took awhile for the German people also.

[uppityperson]

3. Story is about dictators, a different thing than genocide or liberating.

Genocide and liberating are also not opposites, and throwing "dictator" into the works, still not comparable.

Saddam was a dictator. USA is trying to be a dictator.

[malaise]

4. Just a little inversion of reality

that fools believe.

[indepat]

5. The good guys in the white hats liberate when they kill with impunity: the bad guys in the black

hats commit genocide when they kill with impunity. :shrug:

[malaise]

6. Correct n/t