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Originally posted by Gorgo
Ok, call me a crazy left-winger, but, tell me again why we invaded a sovereign nation recognized by the United Nations and are currently hunting down its last reigning ruler?
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because Saddam is a murderous bastard that deserves to die, and because he refused to cooperate with the UN weapons inspections for over 12 years. Call me a crazy right-winger (you'd be wrong, by the way), but tell me why the US *shouldn't* invade a country to remove such a regime? How on earth can you justify not doing anything by pointing at international law, and then claim that the party that does decide to invade is evil?
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I realize this is a flamebait question, what I am asking is, what gives the American government and military the right to be hunting him down?
Do you people believe America has some special right to invade nations we don't trust with WMD and hunt down their leaders?
What if a foreign power decided that America could not be trusted with all the WMD we currently possess and invaded?
What if they were hunting down our Leaders and had even made a deck of cards with their faces?
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I believe everyone has a right to invade nations they don't trust with WMDs if their leaders are as evil as Saddam is. Yes, that includes the US. If anyone has the balls to invade the US over their WMDs (and succeeds), they are welcome to make a deck of cards with the US' leader's faces. In fact, if the US ever turns into an evil dictatorship, with the government killing millions of it's own people for thinking bad things, then I'll applaud anyone that goes in to liberate the US people, with or without UN approval.
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As for will we find Saddam, very likely. He will be lucky if he gets the same fate as Manuel Noriega, a framed-up trip to a Federal Prison, more likely he will be "recovered" dead.
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Noriega was a bastard that deserves his punishment. Saddam will be even worse - I hope the US gets him alive. I'd love to see an Iraqi mob tear the bastard to pieces. Okay, that's a bit excessive, but you get the picture - he deserves to be punished for what he did.