11th April 2003, 1:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 11th April 2003, 1:47 PM by A Black Falcon.)
I've been signed up to the New York Times for quite a while now... its a very good news site...
Oh, and CNN is far from the perfect news channel but its still a thousand times better than MSNBC and Fox News combined...
Oh, and knowing this stuff goes on doesn't mean that he should support a war... by reading that it sure looks like he really couldn't say anything... do you think he should have or something? I;d think that would jeporadize all kinds of lives... even if he was more vague...
Obviously Sadaam's regime was evil. No one ever denied that. And I wouldn't say that no one reported that they were torturing people... or do you forget reports of people saying that sometimes people dissapeared and were never seen again...
But other countries do that and worse and have been for many years and we don't do anything about them... and in this case they've been doing that for a long time and we never did anything until now, after the problems had gotten less obvious (ie Sadaam hasn't had massacres of his people since just after the Gulf War when we let him slaughter those rebels after encouraging them to revolt)... so while its clearly good for the Iraqis that the regime is gone, I'm hardly going to delude myself into thinking that doing that had much of anything to do with why we went in... because it didn't...
Oh, and again: Why should knowing that make him support war? There are other measures that would have helped against the regime that were'nt war... Bush just refused to seriously consider them...
Oh, and CNN is far from the perfect news channel but its still a thousand times better than MSNBC and Fox News combined...
Oh, and knowing this stuff goes on doesn't mean that he should support a war... by reading that it sure looks like he really couldn't say anything... do you think he should have or something? I;d think that would jeporadize all kinds of lives... even if he was more vague...
Obviously Sadaam's regime was evil. No one ever denied that. And I wouldn't say that no one reported that they were torturing people... or do you forget reports of people saying that sometimes people dissapeared and were never seen again...
But other countries do that and worse and have been for many years and we don't do anything about them... and in this case they've been doing that for a long time and we never did anything until now, after the problems had gotten less obvious (ie Sadaam hasn't had massacres of his people since just after the Gulf War when we let him slaughter those rebels after encouraging them to revolt)... so while its clearly good for the Iraqis that the regime is gone, I'm hardly going to delude myself into thinking that doing that had much of anything to do with why we went in... because it didn't...
Oh, and again: Why should knowing that make him support war? There are other measures that would have helped against the regime that were'nt war... Bush just refused to seriously consider them...