He starts off by saying..."Except that liberty has not been 'imposed'
on anyone." and then immediately disproves himself by saying,
"Saddam's regime was removed at the point of a gun."
Then he ignores the fact that the people of Iraq weren't allowed to
vote for Saddam during their election, that their free press was shut
down, that innocent people were imprisoned and tortured for more than
a year without doing anything as much as jay walking, that the doors
of homes were kicked in, searched, that people holding cell phones
while bombs went off were shot, that America's actions have caused
Iraq to be infested with terrorists (including the USA), etc.
Each and every single thing done in Iraq was at the point of a gun,
none of it was in America's defense, and none of it was what the Iraqi
people wanted. I'm sure they'd be happier to have the people America
murdered alive.
--- In [email protected], "Geof Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "kiddleddee" <kiddleddee@> wrote:
> Liberty
> > is "reserved" for everyone who embraces it, but not to anyone who has
> > it imposed at the point of a gun.
> >
>
> Except that liberty has not been 'imposed' on anyone.
> Saddam's regime was removed at the point of a gun. Since that time,
> the only attempt to 'impose' anything has been by the Islamo-fascist
> elements in country and imported from Iran, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi
> Arabia.
>
> This should not be interpreted as a defense of the principle to send
> the military to Iraq, but we should be truthful and avoid the
> anti-American propaganda which tries to claim moral equivalence
> between the US and real tyrannies which actually impose oppression on
> their citizens.
>
> And please, before y'all start posting about how 'tyranny has taken
> over in the US,' just stop and tell me, are you living in the US or
> China? Cuba, perhaps? How about North Korea? Get a little
> perspective before you trot out the old moral equivalence cannards of
> the '60s.
>
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