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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (51331)	6/30/2005 3:03:55 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

In order to make sense and gain a balanced perspective on our operations in Iraq, we have to expand our view points beyond the tunnel visions offered by either partisan extreme. When the current administration weighed in on this, sanctions and containment were deteriorating. In the 90s I was protesting the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children under five who were innocent victims of this policy. Of course highlighting that they were non-regime victims and under five was a little sensational, given that death of many other populations of innocents were also directly attributable. The regime was obviously biding its time while sitting on the wealth of the world that would eventually catapult it into a superpower status... surely you don't believe we would have maintained political support to contain Saddam until the end of time, right? Saddam was very coy about his situation, playing all sides of his adversaries against each other. He continued a cat and mouse equivocation strategy that had us (and still has us) all at each other's throats. At the same time he never hesitated to declare the USA to be enemies of his regime that would eventually be taken to task. IMO better for us that it was sooner rather than later. There are of course other bad guys in the world worthy of attention as well. There are many speeders, thieves, rapists, and such in the USA that the police don't have time to pursue, should we dis-ban that system as well? Do you see the flaw in that logic? Saddam's regime is not the focus of all evil nor has he been. He was the entity that happened to be within our scope where we could leverage some influence. There is plenty of evil in our own neighborhoods and around the globe, anyone who doesn't recognise that is not lucid. Iraq is simply part of the Earth. It's people deserve our shoulder of support. The brutal tyranny that separated us is no more and I for one think that is a good thing.