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To: epicure who wrote (176986)	12/4/2005 7:57:01 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Interesting, so you would rather see millions killed instead of going to war to prevent it. Would you also allow terrorists to detonate bombs in America cities instead of killing or capturing them in Afghanistan or other places? After all, we're "invading" the country they live in order to stop them? Here's another question, was Saddam the legitimate ruler of Iraq? And by what measure do we use to judge that? For example, the Kurds elected their leaders prior to our action and had been requesting military assistance for a long time; couldn't we view our actions of taking Saddam's army out as supporting the elected Kurdish leaders? There are many ways to skin the "invasion" angle. It looks like you've chosen the black and white route. It's a complex issue, and black and white answers rarely serve well in these kind of foreign policy situations. Interestingly, China invaded Tibet years ago and still rule with an iron fist, yet I see almost no call from people to expel Chinese soldiers, and almost no media attention given to their "invasion" of that country.

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