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Originally Posted by Tuatara
Are the thousands of iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq war dissidents?
Are the thousands killed in the Gulf War dissidents?
Are the thousands of Kurdish guerrillas that took up arms and fought Saddam and his army, were they dissidents?
Were the thousands of Iraqis that were told to take up arms and fight Hussein by Bush Sr, were they dissidents?
Are the thousands who died because of the UN Economic Sanctions, are they dissidents?
Everytime I see a table or chart about how many people Saddam killed they always include the above.
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Well said Tuatara, Saddam was a mass murderer and he had to be stopped... he was, but too late for the people you listed above
And to f0ca1 asking about American being the World Police, yes we have to... who else will? someone has to... and thats the US
A little history:
Hitler came into power, he was a gangster and was weak in his early days. France and Britain saw he was a threat, but no one wanted to stop him... A decade later we had to do so forcefully, but it was too late, 50 million people died! We could have prevented that but we didn't... the world was still run by the French and Brits... they failed to be world police and we had to clean up after a mess they should have handle all on their own. Instead they chose for appeasement of Hitler instead of taking him out when he was weak. After that American had to take the leadership position to be the World's policeman... Bosnia, Korea, Kuwait v. Iraq, Iraq, ... list goes on and on...
The world needs a police man, and sadly we have to do it... and unlike the French and British, we are trying to instill freedom where we go, not rape the countries we occupy for treasure, we go there as liberators and we'll leave as victors.
As long as there is evil in this world someone has to stop it, and the powerful have the responsibility to every man woman and child on this earth to make sure they are not victims of cruel dictators that we have the means to kill first.