Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
You call that aid? I think I justified taking Saddam out already. Like I said before; Genocide on the Iraqi Kurds, Shi'ites, raping of school girls, paying families of martyrs. Oh yah, it wasn't sanctioned by the U.N. like Kosevo so we should have backed off and let France, Germany, Russia, and China reap rewards of dirty politics. Sorry about that!
Right, we can agree that Saddam is a bad leader, a despicable person even. (Just like our own leader, by the way. We need to stop pretending we have the answer to every oppressive regime. Half the time when we get out of a country a more oppressive leader is put in than before. Look at Chile or Nicaragua.) BUT, where do we get off terrorizing the Iraqi populace by bombing their water and power supplies for tolerating a bad leader? And why do any of the other countries with oppressive, malevolent regimes (Myanmar? Libya? Saudi Arabia? Cuba? Vietnam? Nepal? Where was the US army during apartheid?), not deserve the same fate?

If we want to instill democracy in the world, let's start by getting rid of our terrorist leaders here at home. Bush and the PNAC started this "War On Terrorism" knowing it could justify military intervention indefinitely, and that it doesn't even matter to the unthinking masses that WE OURSELVES are engaging in terrorism in the process. They're never going to declare the war over. Just like the War On Drugs, they know since what they're supposedly fighting is an abstract concept they will never have to stop the war by achieving victory, and they can use it as an excuse to accumulate more and more power and money as long as they want. They don't care about stopping the killing of innocent civilians. Otherwise, they wouldn't be dehumanizing and insulting the dead victims of American terrorism with the term "collateral damage". It's no coincidence Haliburton is making a fortune off this war, you know.