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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (14567)	3/2/2003 1:42:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

When Hitler came to power Germany was in a shambles, but sadly for your argument, Saddam did not just come to power on a platform of restoring Iraq. Saddam has led Iraq for some very long time now, and managed to lead Iraq through two quite substantial military defeats. Unlike Hitler, Saddam is not a force of new change, he is more like an albatross. When there was no military constraint on Iraq they didn't manage to conquer anyone, even though they tried. Now if you want to go on with your Germany comparisons, I certainly can't stop you, but I do wonder about your sanity. If you get rid of Saddam you might accidentally put in place a force of new change- but it probably won't be one you'd like. Saddma weak and crippled is about the best thing Iraq could have to serve OUR interests. It may not serve the interests of the Iraqi people, but as far as stability in the region (assuming the US can sit on its hands), Saddam may be the best bet we've got. You've heard the saying "Better the devil you know..." Saddam is a very ineffectual devil. I should say he's exactly what we'd like in place, if we were clever enough to know what our own interests were. IMO those interests are 1. Not to piss off the word 2. Not to destabilize the ME, and some of the more precariously situatated monarchs, and 3. Not to give succor to a new wave of fundamentalist Muslim terrorism