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To: Elroy who wrote (213974)	12/30/2004 6:35:37 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578704

re: The man made tsunami is not the invasion, it was Saddam's regime. The coalition didn't attack Iceland, it attacked an authoritarian inhumane regime which deserved what it got - destruction. Did the 100K civilians deserve what they got?

To: Elroy who wrote (213974)	12/30/2004 8:32:49 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578704

Well if one considers the man made tsunami to be Saddam's 20 year rule over and destruction of Iraq, what would you have mainstream media do? Should the media broadcast daily about how there is an Iraqi dictator ruling an oppressed people with an iron fist, chopping off ears, using the country's resources to build himself palaces while the average Joe hasn't enough money to get married, his son's raping and fondling whichever peasant girls they choose, and 60% of the population being forbidden from practicing their religious rituals by his police force? Well how about the fact that he controlled the media so they weren't free to report these things? If before hand those were the reasons that you told me we had to spend at least $200 billion dollars, we would lose more than 1000 of our soldiers, and have many times more than that be seriously wounded - I would have had a very difficult time responding to that. I might have said something along the lines about people suffering far worse in Africa and Asia. But, my memory was that we had to go there before the smoking gun became a mushroom cloud. In other words this was preemptive. We had to stop them before they did us harm. If you now tell me that turned out to be a mistake - I could understand. I could be wrong (and I hope I am wrong) but I think the reasons and reasoning behind the invasion that you gave above is disingenuous.