i haven't said anything about this specifically on this forum, but i had been speaking my piece on another board. there is more to say but... well oh well.
ya like ta hear it here it go...
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it does not matter what saddam has to say. he can agree to spork himself every hour on the hour, but as always, he will not follow through with any of it.
the tiring united nations and a liberal united states have managed to wield thier massive beaurocracy so tactfully as to make saddam feel that he has a license to do whatever he wants, as long as he placates us while he's at it. that is exactly what he has been doing since the last time we went over there and shook it up.
re: oil. our aggression toward this cruel and tyrannical despot has a lot to do with oil, but not in the way you think it does. what was the iraqi regime after in 1991? gold? crops? water? no, no no, no... oil my friends. their goal was to take control of the entirity of middle-eastern oil fields. thier plans were to raise the price of oil to the sky, and revel in our money as they plotted to destroy the civilized world.
re: weapons of mass destruction and murder. when saddam (cheerfully agreeing to every un security council edict) gave our inspectors the boot, it was because they had found too many such weapons and were likely nearing a large cache. that was four years ago. he was working his sandy little ass off to rain fire down on us infidels... and what? did he just stop? do you honestly believe that he would agree to our disarmament demands?
i can already hear you screaming: "but the united states and several other countries have such weapons! who are we to say who can and cant? blah, blah, blah..." we have never killed our own people. we have never used gas in a war. we respect the right of all people to live in freedom. they, frankly, are not to be trusted. in the iran-iraq war, both sides used gas weapons. 1.3 million casualties and 900,000 dead. that is only in war! the iraqi despotism has continued "testing" these bad boys on minorities under his own rule. we have no idea how many people have died!
consider this: a recently defected iraqi nuclear scientist told the united states government that saddam was within months of having nuclear weapons under his control, suggesting that possibly such a weapon could be concealed in a suitcase and... i don't know... sit there harmlessly? my white american ass! you know as well as i that these would be headed straight for u.s. or isreal or some civilized nation, to kill. the scientist pleaded with us to attack them, to save countless lives.
re: terrorism. the british government either has or is about to release thier findings on ties between terrorists (including al quida) and the maniac in question. without a doubt, saddam has funded, hosted, and suppoorted such groups --consider his hatred for the americans and israelis and you will see.
re: stability. many of these tyrants on the u.n. ~in~security council are afraid that democracy, freedom, and tolerance may break out like a white plague, leaving them powerless or even imprisoned by the poeple they oppressed.
re: american losses. i have heard the argument made that "unacceptable american or allied losses may occur in an invasion of iraq." i would say that such losses have already been incurred! even before september eleventh! we will be preventing more! furthermore, one starving, uneducated kurd watching his children tortured, his wife raped, and then being executed by having gasoline poured down his throat and being fed a match is already way too far for me to tolerate! this happens under saddam! do you support this? do you think we should INSPECT this? no! we have to stop this! soldiers in the united states army are volunteers. people in planes are not. if we could have realized this, somolia would not be a starving hell hole.
re: iraqui losses. first, reread the prior paragraph. then consider: in prisons in the u.s., signs on the wall say "sit down when shots are fired." that is our military policy. they will not fight back much, and for those who do, it will be like mowing a lawn straight to baghdad.
re: making it worse. some would argue that by attacking iraq, we are making more angry young militant islamists. this is absolutely right. here's the thing: its already terrible! they hate anyone that is not them! this can remind us of a special group of hateful and domineering shitheads from days of yon..........
such as hitler! bolsheviks! nazis! the klan! can you imagine if someone had pre-empted the fledgling nazi regime? so many dead from inaction. not this time pal. saddam, mugabi, and friends, the world can no longer tolerate you. we have to save humanity from itself, because we know how.
i could go on for hours and hours. talk gets us little.
in conclusion, defending saddam is as idiotic as it is wrong and dangerous. it is for the safety of americans and freedom living people the world over that we go in there and many other places as well, and set things right.
think, then post.
