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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (18302)12/2/2003 2:20:49 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (3) of 793677
 
I don't "blame" anyone. Hundreds of mass graves found already, 25 million people free to grow and prosper in a democratic environment of free market capitalism, and the steady destruction of terrorists who are hell-bent on destroying the civilized nations of the world, especially the U.S. These benefits have made our decision of invasion well worth it.

The alternative to invasion was to watch as thousands more were tortured and killed, the alternative was to play cat- and-mouse games with a genocidal murderer while he *eventually* found a way of building nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The alternative was to put America's future safety and prosperity in the *hope* that a mass murderer, torturer and demented genocidal man would one day come to his senses and live in peace with the rest of the world and his own people.

The logic and belief that we and the rest of the world would have been better off leaving Hussein in power completely baffles me.

The only thing I can figure is it rest on the assumption that something worse will now grow and fester in Iraq and in the heart of the Middle East. Is it possible? Certainly, but the probability that it will happen is infinitely smaller than the probability that Saddam would have created that same horrific environment left on his own. In fact, much of what some fear may happen now in the Middle East, was already happening a few months ago. And it was a growing disease.
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