8th June 2003, 12:40 PM
Oh, Sadaam is/was evil. He led a reign of terror and killed lots of his own people. Many were arrested and tortured for no good reason. He actively supported the Palestinians. All of those are true.
However, ALL of the Middle East supports the Palestinians -- including many US "allies". So that's not why we attacked. As for the brutality and murders, he hadn't had a mass killing of his own people since we stopped the Kurdish one after the Gulf War. He has imprisoned people and tortured them, but nothing worse than a whole lot of other nations that we are not invading so that's not why we went in there. Not unless you plan to also invade dozens of other nations too... which we aren't doing. So while it is good for the Iraqi people that we freed them, it doesn't explain or condone the invasion. And neither does supporting Palestinian terrorists because if we invaded for THAT we'd be running almost the whole Arab world.
As for where Sadaam is, he could be dead or alive, I have no clue... though without a nation to control, unlike Bin Laden I'd say that either way he's not much of a threat. And he isn't more credible than Bush... he just told the truth on that issue. And Bush didn't. And it is by far the most important policy issue for both of them...
AND THE FACT THAT SADAAM DESTROYED/DISMANTLED AND DESTROYED HIS BANNED WEAPONS IS EXACTLY MY POINT! He destroyed them in hopes that the weapons inspectors and US officials would see that and decide not to invade because he was complying with what he had been supposed to do 10 years earlier... of course we invaded anyway, but that's just because Bush doesn't care at all about international law.
However, ALL of the Middle East supports the Palestinians -- including many US "allies". So that's not why we attacked. As for the brutality and murders, he hadn't had a mass killing of his own people since we stopped the Kurdish one after the Gulf War. He has imprisoned people and tortured them, but nothing worse than a whole lot of other nations that we are not invading so that's not why we went in there. Not unless you plan to also invade dozens of other nations too... which we aren't doing. So while it is good for the Iraqi people that we freed them, it doesn't explain or condone the invasion. And neither does supporting Palestinian terrorists because if we invaded for THAT we'd be running almost the whole Arab world.
As for where Sadaam is, he could be dead or alive, I have no clue... though without a nation to control, unlike Bin Laden I'd say that either way he's not much of a threat. And he isn't more credible than Bush... he just told the truth on that issue. And Bush didn't. And it is by far the most important policy issue for both of them...
AND THE FACT THAT SADAAM DESTROYED/DISMANTLED AND DESTROYED HIS BANNED WEAPONS IS EXACTLY MY POINT! He destroyed them in hopes that the weapons inspectors and US officials would see that and decide not to invade because he was complying with what he had been supposed to do 10 years earlier... of course we invaded anyway, but that's just because Bush doesn't care at all about international law.
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