This place sure goes in "spurts"

[David Sanders]

2009/7/20 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
I was actually referring to the constant bombings and economic
sanctions imposed by the UK and US between the two Gulf wars. This
lead to a 5% reduction in population numbers, and I would imagine the
number is far higher now.

Saddam was, as with most tinpot dictators, an evil abhorrent man, but
his faults lie with the fact the US prised him into power anyway.

If anyone's foreign policy can be compared with Hitler's, it's GWBs.