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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729662)	7/29/2013 2:01:50 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By joseffy Tenchusatsu Respond to of 1572637

>> Only a fool would think that Saddam staying in power would have "saved half a million lives." Ten To hear Z tell it, Saddam was set to follow Obama as the next Nobel Peace Prize winner.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729662)	7/29/2013 2:31:48 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572637

Re: >>"Only a fool would think that Saddam staying in power would have "saved half a million lives." "<< We were overflying two/thirds of Iraq with pilots saying no WMD and keeping the Kurds safe, the Inspectors were back in also saying no WMD, troops in Kuwait as long as we wanted them there, Christians still safe and women with rights to education and to be secular plus Shia and Sunni living together with no car bombs. Saddam was NEUTRALIZED and a conscious brain knew it except one with only revenge on his mind and a bunch of crazy, nutty neocons that ignored region history and got fools such as you to believe that the American military could "Nation Build" with a quick in and out, ''low cost" invasion giving power to repatriated thugs.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729662)	7/29/2013 5:45:31 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 1572637

>... then Saddam Hussein would still be in power and would have continued his reign of terror and suffering And instead we get much more suffering. McDermott was being pragmatic. Between 50,000 and 200,000ish Iraqis were killed during Saddam's 30 year reign. That's terrible, but between 500,000 and 1,000,000 have been killed in the last ten years, and a quarter of the population was displaced. I hate to say it, but Saddam was preferable to what we created. Why is saving hundreds of thousands of people and keeping millions from losing their homes treason? -Z