Neo-cons first line of defense - "Saddam was a tyrant" they all do it

[quinnox]

It never fails, anytime one of these vile idiots are asked if the Iraq war was worth it or if they had 20/20 hindsight, would they still have invaded. THey always say something like "I'm glad Saddam is gone, he was an evil tyrant"

That isn't the fucking point!! The point is not that he was evil or a tyrant, yes he was, but whether the United States invaded on FALSE PRETENSES and based on LIES to get the American public riled up and back the war because they were scared of mushrooms clouds on the horizon.

I'm so sick of the neo-cons using this slimy deflection to this question. It's as if they were all schooled to do this like a parrot. It isn't the damn point that Saddam was a bad guy, its that the Iraq war was WRONG in the first place.

[tabatha]

1. Mugabe is a tyrant.

[Angry Dragon]

2. It is like they all belong to the same cult

they get their talking points
they get their orders
and away they go
they all sound the same
so it really matters not
who gets the vote or praise
for when they look into the mirror
either they see nothing there
or it is just a pile of shit and pus

[EFerrari]

3. They said the same thing about Lincoln.

[donco]

4. I usually start off by say that Saddam was a tyrant and then add was it worth it.

Then I set back and enjoy...

[booley]

5. Or to paraphrase the Onion

Dead Iraqis killed by American bombs would have loved democracy.

It's an age old propaganda technique and one that i have seen even here.

If the other guy is "bad" then the guy who opposes him must be "good"

[Tikki]

6. Tell 'em.....Our military found and disposed of a hidden person....

With the correct leadership the Iraqi tyrant could have been dealt with, accordingly.


Tikki

[The Genealogist]

7. The world is full of tyrants...

Why not go after all of them? Oh, right, not all of them are sitting on nice large supplies of oil. And some of the tyrants sitting on oil are our "allies." So, yeah, so much for that justification of Iraq with the "Saddam was a tyrant" rhetoric. It should be "Saddam was a tyrant with vast quantities of oil, off which American capitalists wanted to profit."

[newspeak]

9. yeah, well pinochet was a tyrant

and some in this country loved pinochet--paging the soulless one, kissenger.

[RC]

8. My response to that BS is

So is the United States among nations. So what is your point? I have plenty to back me up.