The War Was a Mistake I
Wonder what the Democrats would say to these people? If they had their way, all this would still be going on -- and we would still be wondering if Saddam were giving WMDs to Al Qaeda.
Update: Here is the correct link.
Update: Here is the correct link.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:52 AM
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It's an incorrect link, for "Travel Zoo."
But I would tell them, "no thanks," as I am staying put until the current administration (or a future one) realizes that in any war, especially the "War on Terror," one of the basic elements of a coherent strategy is defense protecting the homefront. Bush has not done that, distracted as he is by "taking the fight to them, over there."
I assume that this was supposed to be a link to testimony from Saddam's trial relating torture, rape, and other abuses. You seem to have grabbed the URL for a news site's sponsor. This is probably closer to what you had in mind.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10318347/
Earlier in court, a woman identified only as "Witness A" testified from behind a screen that she was assaulted and tortured with beatings and electric shocks by Iraqi guards as Saddam sat stone-faced, silently taking notes.
I agree that Saddam Hussein was cruel to his people. Every Americans agrees with that. Like everyone else, I hope he gets a fair trial followed by the appropriate punishment which for a louse like him can only be execution.
But whether or not Hussein is a horrible person has never been the issue. That's a tactic of deflection and guilt by association, of changing the subject and making those who oppose(d) the war Saddam-lovers. It won't work.
By the way, folks in Darfur are being butchered by the Janjaweed militia right now. Are our troops on the way? How about North Korea, where orphans are locked in death prisons to save food and medicine and where famine, it is rumored, has caused some Koreans to resort to cannibalism? Bringing an end to these and countless other enormous injustices around the world would be wonderful results of a hypothetical invasion. But are they worth the lives of our troops? If most Americans thought so, we'd already have ended them.
So, from witness testimony we know that Saddam was doing barbaric things back in 1982. Just to refresh everyone's memory, 1982 was year before Donald Rumsfeld went over to Iraq as a Presidential enbvoy and told Saddam Hussein that the United States wanted to restore full diplomatic relations.
So I guess I would say, "I am sorry that as President of the United States Ronald Reagan didn't care about human rights abuses in Iraq."
Dodger wrote, "I don't know what Mr Twister wants either."
Truth, justice, and the American way, my boy-o. Truth, justice, and the American way.
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