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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChrisJP who wrote (7309)	4/3/2003 9:59:56 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21614

Were Saddam to use chemicals, even though it's my opinion he'd probably like to use them as he has in the past when his defensive positions were compromised, he'd lose in the game of history, both in the American version of history and in the Arabian view of history. It's my bet he's playing to the latter, and could care less about the former. It was reported that he'd torch the oil wells; he said he wouldn't torch the oil wells. Except for a few near the Kuwait-Iraq entry point, this didn't happen. It was reported he'd blow the dams and flood our troops; he said he wouldn't. This didn't happen. It was reported he'd destroy his infrastructure by blowing bridges, etc.; he said he wouldn't. This hasn't happened. Of course, it's easy to fall for the American propaganda that Saddam's now a bigger bogeyman than OBL, and that he's done done absolutely nothing good but everything bad, indeed he's the worst man on earth. This claim gets ironic, however, when it's aimed at a guy whose got his picture plastered everywhere high and low and his statues rest all throughout Iraq. Did he post his photos and these statues in order to say, "here I am, the worst guy on earth!" I doubt it. He obviously has a different impression of himself. Anyway, this post is more an attempt at balance, rather than a defense of Saddam Hussein. It's my view that he's a tyrant dictator whose done what all dictators, including American-friendly ones who made nice deals with American corporations, have done: murder and torture political enemies and strongarm control over all of his people. Indeed, he should be removed. But it remains my preference that the UN route was and still is a better one; that bringing Saddam up for crimes against humanity before an international court would have better helped to set the table for his own people to eventually overthrow him in an environment where weapons inspectors, UN peacekeepers and a statewide no-fly zoned would have existed. But, unfortunately, Bush's bent for war was too strong. So strong he became diplomatically inept and remains so.