KLP, re: "You go ahead and continue thinking that Saddam was just a sweet old man."
Surely your not dense enough to interpret my post parodying your "if we hadn't invaded" fantasy post as a "Saddam was just a sweet old man" post? Or are you?
As far as the oft paraded local brutalities of Saddam, maybe you could answer a couple of questions?
First, were these some of the same radical peoples that we're currently killing, arresting without charges and (recently) torturing?
Second, why is it that the Iraqis are suicide bombing and killing us at the loss of their own lives while they did not do so against Saddam? Could it be because Saddam was a local problem and most of them led better lives than others in the region, while under our "rule" their lives are harsh and we are considered foul infidels?
Third, if the several thousand or more executions in Iraq are the test, we better invade Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and a host of our other "friends" throughout the world. Or is Iraq somehow "bad" for such executions while our friends are still "good?"
Fourth, what about the tens or hundred thousand bodies, many of them civilians, that are buried in Iraq as a result of our help? And what will we have accomplished when we finally recognize that Iraq will choose its own bloody path to a stable future and there are hundreds of thousands or millions of bodies in our wake? What will you say about the mass graves we leave behind?
Don't give me your crocidile teared laments about the past dead Iraqis when we're creating more of them at an ever increasing pace. Ed |
