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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who wrote (63525)4/19/2006 12:28:35 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
There are many reasons to question the timeliness of going to war on the Regime of Saddam Hussein, but I can find no fault with a president for harboring the idea of going to war with Saddam under the circumstances.

Saddam and his regime were brutal and tyrannical. They established power and spread their influence by stepping over dead bodies and by torturing the population into submission to their brutal control. They tortured children in the presence of their parents … is it any wonder that he received a 100% approval rating, just before we invaded? Saddam had listed us at the top of his list of enemies to his regime on more than one occasion. There was every likelihood that the sanctions would be nullified and that he would use the wealth of the region to establish him self as a super power enemy of the US… he had indicated his intent to do just that many times.

Not only were the sanctions becoming corrupted and ineffective, they were being used by the Saddam Regime to further brutalize and annihilate his enemies within the region of Iraq. Saddam used the sanctions to strengthen his Regime forces while allowing the majority of the population to sicken and die under the provisions. He was essentially using them as an excuse to commit a massive genocide on the non-regime population of Iraq. I protested them for that reason.

It would have been irresponsible for any sitting president not to consider war with Saddam’s regime as a very real possibility, and to have developed contingencies in that regard. It is not like we didn’t try to make the alternatives (UN involvement) work.
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