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Laserth, that is a something that most whirled peas supporters conveniently forget.

I don't particularly want to see dead iraqis stacked like cordwood. It's bad enough seeing pictures of mass gravesite excavations or gassed corpses. Hussein and his pals murdered thousands upon thousands of Iraqis and Kurds. His evil is well-documented, but just as some people refuse to believe in Nazi death camps, some people will always refuse to believe that Hussein should have been removed.


lukethebandgeek - Darfur, Darfur, Darfur? Happy? BBC World Service and BBC News talks about Darfur all the time. I've heard it on CNN. And what would you have the US do about it? Invade? Start a war with Sudan? Wait for the UN to do something about it? The last time we went to Africa under UN auspices, the Army lost people because we weren't allowed adequate armor and air support.

What actions would you consider adequate? Deposing murderous criminal governments is not a popular activity in some quarters.

JWoody, outright piracy as a national policy is something unique to the arab world. Other countries have, from time to time, provided Letters of Marque to empower civilian ships to destroy or capture shipping under an opponents flag during war.

As for the lot of black Africans improving if caucasians and arabs were to kill each other: Dreamer. Exactly which group of caucasians and arabs was responsible for the genocide in Rawanda or the famine in Somalia?

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