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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (55089)	7/20/2004 12:34:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793739

We should send in troops? Here is The Arizona Republic's Doug MacEachern's retort to those who complain that the US had no right to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq: "If you truly believe that sending U.S. troops into Iraq was the gravest, foulest mistake of the current generation, if you are convinced no justice was served by attacking Baghdad and that the Iraqis should have been left to deal with Saddam as best they may, then you forfeit the right to complain, ever again, about human-rights abuses anywhere in the world. This includes the currently fomenting international outrage over Sudan. United Nations word-quibbling aside, Sudan is about as close as you get these days to a level of genocide comparable to what Saddam brought to Iraq. But you no longer have any moral right to suggest your nation is failing its duty to help the tens of thousands of helpless victims in Sudan. You have no honest right to hector the U.S. for failing to level economic sanctions against China for the Chinese barbarism in Tibet. You forfeit any right to complain about what the U.S. failed to do to save a million Tutsis from murderous Hutus in Rwanda. You can never again curse the timorous West, including the U.S., for failing to rein in Pol Pot in Cambodia." azcentral.com