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Thank you. Succinct, graphic and to the point. I've used this in response to all the sign for peace email I'm getting. Well done.
So... I gather that your argument is "Saddam killed a whole bunch of Iraqis, so let's use our modern weapons and go kill a bunch more"? Sounds suspiciously like an argument of two-wrongs-making-a-right. Or right-wing, at least...
No Brian, the argument is: Prevent Saddam Hussein from killing anyone else period. To do that we have to remove him from power. To do that we have to invade the land he controls and kill or capture any of his henchmen who resist. Just like cops may have to break down the door of the bad guys hideout and kill some of the bad guys and arrest the others. In both cases there is a chance that innocent people will get hurt. In both cases the good guys will try very hard to avoid hurting the innocent. But, in both cases the bad guys will definately kill more innocent people if left free to do so. In the case of Saddam Hussein, he has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. He is very likely to kill hundreds of thousands more or even millions of innocent people if he gives a nuclear bomb to Al Queda. Is that really that hard to understand?
Well, last time I heard there was no genocide going on in Iraq, only that the people were suffering from the economic sanctions. They had the cheapest gas in the world but couldn't afford to buy it. Then Sept. 11 happened, Bush tried to catch Osama, but he escaped. So Bush pointed at Saddam, linking him to Osama. Hey wait a minute! It just seems there's no proof. At all. So what if he has NBC weapons? North Korea has. China has. The US has the most. Unless there's evidence that he is arming terrorists, the US must respect international law and hold its fire. If the US still wants to assert that might is right(true, no one can stop them), it should have at least the common sense to stop carping about its morals. Continuing to do so is hypocrisy of the basest level.
Innocents have always paid the price for the perpetuation of religious beliefs inculcated by a fanatical priest-craft.