In the rathouse 'o interpretation (WAS Re: politics andreligion...)

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on 2/22/03 4:59 AM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

> I think there's been 500,000 lost to the sanctions too. If we take out
> Saddam we might ultimately be saving lives.  A million dead vs. how many
> killed in the course of the war? Some bombed and shot, some starved, some
> sick from the dirty water, cancer from the  DU, plus all the foreign troops
> cancer and gulf war syndrome--I don't know. It could add up to a million in
> the end. So maybe it's six of one and half dozen of the other. The only
> meaningful difference I can see is the level to which I partake. It's one
> thing for Saddam to kill his people. There's not much I can do about that.
> But I'm damned if I sit back while my government kills his people.

It reminds me of the bumper stickers that say "No Castro, no problem" as if
Fidel Castro were the only communist in Cuba, holding an entire nation at
bay with a six shot revolver.

If you take out Saddam Hussein, you also have to take out his entire family.
Then, you have the Ba'ath party that he subverted. Then, the so called Iraqi
opposition. Intellectuals in exile at Columbia University who bailed and ran
on their own people rather than stay and work within the system or fight.
Great choice : thugs or cowards. The Iraqi people would not respect either
of them. Why should they? They're screwed either way. Dubya Chicken Hawk, on
the other hand, can identify with both groups.