Originally posted by 96RedSE5Sp:
I just don't get it. How can anyone possibly conclude that Saddam Hussein was a GROWING threat to world peace in 2003?...



He said it FAR better than I did:

Originally posted by Jeb Hodge:
I disagree. On a conventional level, perhaps it holds water, but Hussein had a demonstrated and long-standing desire to obtain nuclear weapons (never mind chem/bio), and whether his scientists built the things or he obtained them through another source, as long as he had a nation-state in which to hide activities, it was a tremendous risk.



Originally posted by 96RedSE5Sp:
The Iraqi army was helpless and hapless in 2003, as was its leadership. By comparing him to Hilter you minimize the terror and death and destruction that Hitler and His Nazis wrought on the world in less than 10 years



Again, Hussein's strength would never be (nor did he plan it to be) in conventional armaments after the '91 action...

Over 2 million dead as a result of Saddam and his policies it's still not clicking? It's simply sick to place a timeframe on genocide, cruelty and suffering just so one can politically "dismiss" the notion that Iraq under his control turned into the absolute quagmire of the Middle-East and suffered a population drain that can only be compared in 20th century annuals to those of Cambodia and Nazi Germany. This "who's stack of bodies is higher" qualification under "x" amount of time on the stopwatch is patently disgusting. Ranking Hussein and his evils with the mass insanity that Hitler's Nazi party propogated throughout Europe does NOTHING to minimalize anything; this is akin to arguing which pile of rotting carcasses stinks worse...

I'll never deny that Hitler is the measuring stick that all madmen and dictators are judged by, given the insanity he orchestrated in Europe, but Jesus, when one is talking about 7 figures worth of bodies that were sacrificed to prop up a regime like Hussein's, he DEMANDS to sit at the same table in Hell as Hitler.

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