Saddam was a menace. He needed to be disarmed, basically frisked thoroughly and kept in a tight box until we could replace him somehow.
What is that, a quote from Douglas Feith? Richard Pearle?
That is such BS. This country has sided with so many brutal dictators in the past for political expediency that your rationale for repacing Saddam is no more than an attempt to whitewash Kerry's record or salve your own conscience.
We supported or tolerated Samosa, Pinochet, Papa Doc, Noriega, Battista, Stroesner in Paraguay and plenty of other creeps in L.A. We played ball with Nasser, Assad, the democratic and benevolent royal House of Saud, China, Indonesia.
The only thing that drives us to war is whether it's good for business. And when it's bad for business, we don't even care if leaders were democratically elected. We want them out. Witness Venezuela and Haiti right now, today!
The bottom line is Bush would not take "No weapons" for an answer.
And you seem to think the only thing wrong here is a lack of an exit strategy. |
