Saddam: The Man

Jul 31, 2008 08:48

Read an EXCELLENT piece on Saddam Hussein recently entitled Tales of the Tyrant. I highly recommend it ( Read more... )

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bajatierra July 31 2008, 14:12:07 UTC
Good, sure. I'll buy that. I always thought that Blair's argument about liberating the Iraqi people was way more compelling than the suspect WMD argument. But smart? Trading an oppressive yet stable and contained Iraq for the destabilized terrorist magnet/major distraction we've had for the last five years? Not so much.

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poltergasm July 31 2008, 14:17:27 UTC
Even by liberal estimations, the number of Iraqis killed as a result of the war pales in comparison to the number Saddam had murdered. Often, on a megalomaniacal whim. So if we're to assume that "every life is equally valuable, nationality notwithstanding," then perhaps history will not judge this war so harshly. Illegal? Yes. Morally wrong? I'm not so sure.

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ministersin July 31 2008, 16:25:47 UTC
I agree with this to some degree, except that maybe it was not our role to police this. I think George W. Bush has been responsible for thousands of needless deaths of our citizens, has raped our country for billions of dollars in illicit military contract deals, etc.

I believe we'd bee better of without him. BUt I'm not sure that having foreign troops rummage through my house, beat up my dad and threaten my mom at gunpoint is the best way to accomplish this goal. I don't think I'd feel any safer.

And I don't think they feel any safer.

But yeah...Saddam was a bastard. Scene the House of Saddam thing oin HBO/BBC? Fictional retelling of how he came into power etc. Very interesting.

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