DukeLeto your arguments are ridiculous.
Government sponsored rape and starvation that occured in Iraq is not the same as private occurences. It was Saddam's regime that took the money that was SUPPOSED to feed his people it wasn't the sanctions that starved them.
Executing someone after exhaustive trials is not the same as grabbing them off the street, torturing them, and burying them in a mass grave.
Conscription? Where have you been for the last 30 years? There is no draft in the US and even if there was, elected politicians in the US determine who we go to war with. The people you choose to represent you in Congress are the ones that you give the power to decide your fate in times of a draft.
To say that Judge Moore tried to oppress other religions in the same way that they are repressed in Iraq is a joke.
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Originally posted by DukeLeto
onetime2, I can't point to an equivalent situation for each of your supposed "freedoms," but I can state with absolute certainty that Saddam Hussein was engaging in all of those activities when the U.S., under Reagan and Bush Sr., was his ally and chemical weapons supplier. If you weren't outraged then, you haven't a leg to stand on now when you produce a list of atrocities that the U.S. has "ended" by invading another sovereign nation without provocation.
I wonder...would you (FEL, onetime2, seretogis, Phaenx) support the crucifixion of dissidents if it meant that fewer American soldiers would die?
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For the first part, I am outraged by these actions no matter the time frame and the alliances struck at the time. Unfortunately that is the nature of the world, sometimes you have to deal with sadistic bastards. I'll leave the "without provocation" BS alone since there has been ten years of provocation on the part of Hussein's government.
As far as the second part, nice strategy, rather than have an intelligent discussion just throw in a bunch of crap.