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To: tejek who wrote (161510)	2/18/2003 3:58:48 PM
From: jjayxxxx	Respond to of 1574811

Let me see.....if the human rts argument is so powerful why did no one get on board ten years ago and remove Saddam when we/they had the chance? Exactly. It should have been done 10 years ago, but it wasn't because the UN wouldn't allow it. So it is happening now, with or without the UN. And your objection is, what again? If human rights issues are a compelling reason to depose someone and frankly, I don't believe that is why we are proposing war with Iraq, why Saddam first? Why not some of the others who are committing genocide as I type this post. Saddam's bloodlust pretty much ended ten years ago. So you are saying we should depose all worse regimes first? By "worse" I mean the ones that have a human rights record of having killed more than 100,000 innocents, maybe many many more. Interesting. I don't have any specific disagreement with that logic. I just don't follow this stuff closely enough to know what existing regime is actually worse than Saddam's in terms of number of innocents killed. Do you know, or does anybody have any links handy? Of course, the fact that Saddam has violated the ceasefire and several UN resolutions is another factor. That he has harbored al Qaida, or at least has not actively turned them over (to anyone) is another factor. Or even just imprisoned them, or 'whacked' them, or anything. That he has proven his willingness to mass murder, and harbors a mass murdering group, which has mass murdered Americans, is another factor. But you are right, even as convincing or unconvincing as those other factors are, the human rights case stands on its own IMO. JJ