Yeah, I think Saddam oughta still be in power.

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Reckon I'll just lean over the plate and take one, but it ain't gonna be for "the team." I'll take this hit--and all the flames and hand-wringing about what "the world will think of DU if they see posts like this"--in the name of Common Sense. To wit:

There would be 3,000 American service personnel and most probably 600,000 Iraqis still alive IF Saddam had remained in power. Please try to bear in mind that the population of Iraq was about 50 PER CENT UNDER 18 before "we" decided to liberate them--and THEN ask yourself what "we" do to Child Killers in this country.

There would be no civil war in Iraq if Saddam were still in power. There would also be electricity and fresh water. Iraqis could, in all probablity, go to the corner store for food and supplies (something "we" take for granted in Amerika) with a reasonable expectation of returning home alive.

I will readily concede that Saddam was an "evil tyrant who murdered his own people" IF you'll concede the very same about a supposed President of the United States of America who either COULD NOT or WOULD NOT lift a finger--except for the middle one--to stop the terrorist attacks that he and his Handlers DAMN WELL KNEW was coming on the 11th of September, 2001.

The United States knowingly, willfully, and GLEEFULLY violated just about the oldest principle of warfare that there IS: War is only undertaken as a last resort. The US decided--in the face of the active opposition of 2/3 of the world's population--to invade a country that posed absolutely no military or economic threat to us, for political expediency and profits. Iraq had 2/3 of its territory under aerial control and surveillance by foreign powers, not to mention crippling economic sanctions in place AND overflights by satellites that can read license plates from 22,000 miles straight up. Yet we were supposed to believe that Saddam somehow had been able to develop Nucular Weapons and was ready to drop them on the East Coast via drone aircraft within 45 minutes?!?!?! Fuck that. bu$hler lied to us all on TV (thank you, Merle Haggard!). He was lying, and he KNEW he was lying. Just the same as Saddam did to HIS people.

Now, we're fixin' to hang a man who has been such a convenient ally and such a convenient foe of Republican Presidents? In spite of the BEAM in the eye of this Christian Nation??? Something smells like Catfish Charlie in Amerika.

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