Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: frankw1900 who wrote (119069)	11/10/2003 9:14:34 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Ok I am willing to discuss these reasons, but these do not make the operation one of humanitarian rescue from a brutal dictator, which was the assertion I was talking about. Now if we may come back to the issue for a minute, am I reading you correctly that we invaded Iraq to free its people from Saddam and that we chose Iraq from all the other brutal dictatorships because if its strategic importance? If this is the case, then I'd like to point out for such reasoning to be acceptable, we should have an anti-dictatorship policy and choose our battles selectively amongst them. In other words we should not be supporting any friendly dictators. Sure enough, we may not bomb all of them to hell, but neither should we be training their secret police and giving them financial aid. Since I don't see that happening, I can't accept Saddam's brutality as the main reason we invaded Iraq.