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To: kumar who wrote (66631)1/17/2003 8:43:13 PM
From: Rollcast...  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
Way I look at it, if the Iraqi people wanted to get rid of Saddam, they've had a few decades to act on it. They did not.

How many decades is dictatorship allowed in your view?

As I pointed out earlier - when a government chooses to sponsor anti-US terrorism... the option to accelerate the time table is the US's.

under what mandate?

Consider it a post 9/11 categorical imperative... file it under self defense or Kandt or something.



To: kumar who wrote (66631)1/17/2003 9:13:24 PM
From: Still Rolling  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"Way I look at it, if the Iraqi people wanted to get rid of Saddam, they've had a few decades to act on it. They did not."

Ridiculous! Stalin died peacefully in his sleep. How are "the Iraqi people" supposed to "act on it"?



To: kumar who wrote (66631)1/18/2003 1:54:02 AM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 281500
 

Q3 : no I'm not. referendum implies democracy. not true in this case. Way I look at it, if the Iraqi people wanted to get rid of Saddam, they've had a few decades to act on it. They did not.


There have been several attempted coups and numerous uprisings against Saddam's regime, kumar. All of them were ruthlessly put down. To say that lack of a successful revolution in a brutal police state is evidence of consent, is a bit odd.

Derek