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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

---- Original Message -----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
>
> It is morally unsupportable to justify killing well over a hundred
thousand
> men, women and children and to maim thousands more to depose one tyrant,
no
> matter how heinous his actions.

***O.K., Gene, you were doing fine (above) but then ya nose dived!

The Iraqi people allowed Saddam to come to
> power and it was their responsibility to depose him just as it is now
their
> responsibility to create the nation they want.

***The Iraqi people didn't allow Saddam to do squat.  The U.S. gave Saddam
his power, the money, the Hueys, the dirty bombs.  As long as he could be
aimed to do the U.S.'s dirty work he was a good little pet to have around.
We kept him in power.  If we hadn't and if we hadn't put up the embargos,
etc. against Iraq, the people would have had the means to get rid of him.

We could have defanged
> Saddam by other means and the inspections were well on the way to doing
> more of that. In fact, he was largely defanged already. We now know that
he
> thought he had far more weapons that he did. His top advisors were lying
to
> him. His day was drawing to an end. As I vainly repeated before the
> invasion, the proof of his weakness was the lack of fear by surrounding
> nations. But of course, they spoke the same language. "Slam dunk Tenet"
> should have been fired for gross incompetence.
>
> I find it curious that otherwise intelligent people hold that getting rid
> of Saddam Hussein justified the most horrific inhumanity--the mass killing
> and maiming of tens of thousands of innocent human beings. Where is the
> outrage and the passion to rid the world of all the other despots who
> savage and ravage their countries?
>
***Ever heard of the Delphi Technique?  Seems to work pretty good on
sheeple.

Lynda
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