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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (107652)	8/26/2005 2:55:33 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It is impossible to imagine the U.S. watching Europe be taken over by Hitler without stepping in. Are you attempting to equate Hitler and Saddam Hussein in terms of how big a threat they were to worldwide security issues and the international balance of power? You keep referring to economic interests only in your post. So what about security interests? My point in bringing up the subject of life in Iraq and how lot of Iraqis now prefer life under Saddam is to remind everyone that we have pretty much totally destroyed and/or failed to repair their electricity, sewers and other infrastructures (many have been without electricity for over three years), killed over twenty-five thousand civilians, created starvation conditions, pushed the unemployment rate way up, women and children are now fearful of being kidnapped and/or raped, and what there is to look forward to seems to be a conservative Islamic republic and maybe civil war. People don't feel safer than when Saddam was president. Women and children will lose the civil rights they had in Saddam era, secular Iraq. I think it is important to continually consider that we were the aggressor in a war we began under false pretenses, that we did not have the right to overthrow Saddam, and that we have made a much worse situation for ourselves and for Iraqis.