Posted by Smalls at adsl-67-122-161-208.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net on December 08, 2003 at 04:50:09:
In Reply to: Re: Bush didnt lie about shit. posted by Deltron on December 08, 2003 at 03:15:50:
Simple as that, international law, this is how world wars are supposed to not get started.
Sadaam. Monstrous? Sure.
Dangerous to us? Nope. Dangerous to anyone other than his own people? Nope.
We've already killed more Iraqis than he ever could have in the last couple of months... and the ones who've survived are in infinitely worse shape than they were before.
Now instead of subsisting with a tyrant from within, they're starving with a tyrant from without. Good fucking trade.
And, beyond that, we've set a dangerous international precedent: America's gonna kill whoever it damn well wants.
Not to mention a whole new generation of Al-Queda crawling from beneath their parents bodies on the streets of Baghdad... and waiting for someone to hand them a gun.
In short: Sadaam in power in Iraq was better for the world and the Iraqi people in general, monstrous though he be, than America going in and taking him out for the wrong reasons.
And history will bear that out. It is already.
Honestly, all we can do as Americans is slowly wake up, throw the bums out who did this and apologize profusely to the world for how badly we've fucked up.
"Sorry. Seriously, we're gonna stop electing power-mad fundamentalist oil barons as our leaders. Back to over-educated horndog Southern liberals who clawed their way up from the trailer parks. They seem to have their shit together more."
Mike