I do not support bribing mass murderers

[Scriptor Ignotus]

and I can't believe so many DUers seem fine with it. First off, it's unrealistic - no US President would EVER get caught doing this. Bill or Hillary Clinton wouldn't, Edwards wouldn't, Obama wouldn't, and you better believe GWB would never do it. Second, Saddam was an evil, barbaric man with blood on his hands. It would be totally immoral and completely unacceptable to pay him off.

Now, every DUers will try and compare the costs of bribing Saddam to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but that is a false choice. There were other ways to get Saddam out of power, such as assassination.

Third, even if he left, the Baath party infrastructure remained. It's not like Saddam was the only bad guy in Iraq in a position of power.

Saddam's crimes against his own people and Iran's are not fictional Bush Administration propaganda. These things are well documented. I post this not in defense of the war, but to slap down this ridiculous notion that Saddam could have or should have been paid off. There were other morally acceptable options.


reposted regarding:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601024.html

Bush thought Saddam was prepared to flee: report

By Jason Webb
Reuters
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; 12:07 PM

MADRID (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was prepared to take $1 billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, according to a transcript of talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and an ally, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday.

During a meeting at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on February 22, 2003, Bush told former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar that Saddam could also be assassinated, according to the transcript published in El Pais in Spanish.