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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (4068)	12/16/2003 11:57:59 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

Saddam is in the same league as a mafia thug. If he hadn't killed a massive amount of people lately, you know he would have no qualms of doing so again if the need were to arise. Tell me, if there had been no invasion and Saddam remained in power, what then? We wait for his sons to take the reins of power? The torture apparatus Saddam had installed in practically every city, town and village would still issue screaming cries of pain and suffering every day and night and neigboring unmarked graveyards would grow at a slow unrelenting pace until what? Every new emerging society has its ups and downs with revenge-taking and the always inevitable purging (I got that from Freud's Civilization and its Discontents), but at the end of the day, I doubt any Iraqi would want to go back to have Saddam and his cronies running the show, excepting of course Baathists. Bush pulled the trigger, maybe it was the wrong time, but he did it, and we have no choice now but to move forward and help as much as possible the Iraqi people to become a society that respects the rights of all its people, not just a privileged few.