Faced with the inevitable loss of public support for their dishonestly
marketed war of aggression, GOP apologists have begun to sneer the
rather obscene question "would you rather have Saddam back?"
I would suggest that a fair answer to this question might include the
following:
I would rather have the support and sympathy of the entire free world
in our fight against the terrorists who killed three thousand of our
citizens on September 11 back.
I would rather have the credibility of the US government with the
entire international community back.
I would rather have the admiration and respect of freedom loving
people across the globe back.
I would rather have the UN security counsel who unanimously backing
the US in our every effort that wasn't an affront to established
international law back.
I would rather have the hundreds of billions of dollars the US has
sunk into Iraq back, along with the obligation to spend billions more,
since Iraqi people across the entire spectrum of their society are
protesting our very presence there.
I would rather have the UN weapons inspectors, who were actively
crawling through Saddam's underwear drawers before we attacked, back.
I would rather have the no-fly zones, which shut Saddam out of power
in both the north and the south of his own country, back.
And if I could get back the lives of over 240 hundred US servicemen,
including over 1,000 wounded or injured, and still have Saddam Hussein
completely boxed in militarily and economically, just as he was prior
to the start of the war, would I?
You are damn right I would.
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