21st July 2003, 9:08 PM
Second version?
What I did was post the first paragraph as the first "version". Then I decided I did in fact want to go into more depth... and added the rest a few minuites later. That's all. And of course it doesn't even begin to cover the issue, but I don't want to spend a long time writing a post if I don't have to...
Oh, and its absolutely ridiculous to equate Sadaam with the civil war in Liberia.
Sure... Sadaam's secret police killed some people. Worse than many nations, not as bad as plenty of others. But they did kill and torture people. And in the past they practiced genocide... not recently, though. The last genocide in Iraq was when Sadaam killed the people who rose in revolt right after the first gulf war...
You know, when the first Pres. Bush encouraged people to revolt against Sadaam and then stood there and watched Sadaam go in and slaughter them? (that, by the way, is when it'd be a good idea to send in peacekeepers, or at least to intimidate Sadaam into stopping... not when he isn't doing anything wrong, like when we invaded this year...)
But more recently Sadaam's 'atrocities' have been much, much more toned down... to the point where it isn't a reason to make a special issue about it. Sure he's bad but there were and are many, many nations FAR, FAR worse out there that we won't touch.
After all we aren't invading North Korea, Iran, China, Sudan, Myanmar, and a dozen other nations...
As for Liberia... civil war is an ugly thing. Lots of people die. Dramatically worse than the situation in Iraq for the past few years. Its really no comparison...
AND THE LIBERIANS ASKED FOR OUR HELP!!!
What I did was post the first paragraph as the first "version". Then I decided I did in fact want to go into more depth... and added the rest a few minuites later. That's all. And of course it doesn't even begin to cover the issue, but I don't want to spend a long time writing a post if I don't have to...
Oh, and its absolutely ridiculous to equate Sadaam with the civil war in Liberia.
Sure... Sadaam's secret police killed some people. Worse than many nations, not as bad as plenty of others. But they did kill and torture people. And in the past they practiced genocide... not recently, though. The last genocide in Iraq was when Sadaam killed the people who rose in revolt right after the first gulf war...
You know, when the first Pres. Bush encouraged people to revolt against Sadaam and then stood there and watched Sadaam go in and slaughter them? (that, by the way, is when it'd be a good idea to send in peacekeepers, or at least to intimidate Sadaam into stopping... not when he isn't doing anything wrong, like when we invaded this year...)
But more recently Sadaam's 'atrocities' have been much, much more toned down... to the point where it isn't a reason to make a special issue about it. Sure he's bad but there were and are many, many nations FAR, FAR worse out there that we won't touch.
After all we aren't invading North Korea, Iran, China, Sudan, Myanmar, and a dozen other nations...
As for Liberia... civil war is an ugly thing. Lots of people die. Dramatically worse than the situation in Iraq for the past few years. Its really no comparison...
AND THE LIBERIANS ASKED FOR OUR HELP!!!
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