In 1939, if some of you had been around, I'd imagine you'd have been saying, "We really ought to keep our noses out of Europe. Those imperialistic Brits are at it again." .
Enough people did say that, including FDR, and we stayed out long enough for almost 12 million people to be slaughtered, not counting the fun and games that Stalin was having in Russia at that same time.
Sadamm Hussein is a butcher, to a lesser degree than Hitler simply because he doesn't have the same number of people at his disposal, but nevertheless, a freaking butcher.
Did you read the article that Peaches posted? How many thousands of celebrants were slaughtered when we decided not to invade Iraq the last time?
In the US, people aren't generally killed for cheering because we think the President isn't going to be re-elected. You think perhaps the Iraqi troops killed all those people on their own? I don't think so. "So-Damned-Insane" ordered all those murders. He's been involved in wholesale genocide for years.
We know he has internationally-outlawed chemical and biological weapons. The fact that he hasn't used them YET is no proof that they don't exist. And I'd bet that for every weapon we know about, he has 5 we don't know about.
Be realistic. This guy is even crazier than Hitler. Most of his own people hate him, with good reason. His oldest son is a murderer and rapist, his younger son isn't any better.
Yeah, let's pull out of Iraq and wait until he launches some deadly virus on Kuwait or Turkey. Great idea.
Now, I don't claim to know the entire story, none of us outside the inner circle does. But to say that we're there just for oil is simplistic. To say we're there to further Bush's career is, as well.
IMHO Hussein should have been taken out in 91. That wasn't in the plans back then, but thousands of innocent people would still be alive today if we had.
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