This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/20 David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/20 Ian L. Target <ian69 at comcast.net>:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
>>> /me wonders if some old guard Republicans somewhere are working on
>>> cloning Adolf Hitler and Herman Göbbels for his running-mate...
>>>
>> With this post, the thread as officially deteriorated to the point of
>> worthlessness.
>>
>> See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>>
>
> I'm not a believer in Godwin's "Law" (or as it should be rightly
> known: Godwin's completely unqualified theorem). Why is mentioning
> Hitler a self-destruction of an argument? Are we merely to accept that
> no modern leader can be held to comparison? I'm sure the > 5% of the
> Iraqi population systematically killed over the last 20 years would
> disagree.
>
> Godwin Schmodwin IMO.

I think there are far worse than the late Saddam Hussein still in
power. Robert Mugabe springs to mind, or the official government of
Saudi Arabia - another human rights abomination and international
disgrace. But they're rich and we all need their oil, so that's all
right; the world turns a blind eye.

Iraq was something like an oasis of stability and non-religious safety
in the middle east - but he offended Bush Sr. The Gulf War 1 didn't
kill him off, and so even though the USA's CIA set him up in the first
place, Saddam had to go. I find it tragic.

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