Re: [QUAD-L] Viewing the "Big Picture"

[Oconnelldb]

Not an evil dictator, really?  You missed all the reports huh?  Kuwaties got in his way, Kurds were gassed in very large numbers.  He shot, killed, raped, plundered hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen so he was certainly evil.   He might not have been the MOST evil dictator on the planet but it's hard to find a 'good' reason to go after the MOST evil.   This war was fueled by oil, revenge, and wmd talk.  Edie Amin simply killed his own citizens.  No oil, no thumbing his nose at the US, no real threat to anyone outside his own country.  He was evil but we didn't care. O'C       In a message dated 7/23/2006 2:51:18 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 08:34 PM 7/22/2006 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response:   >Innocent people are not purposely being targeted to be killed. At least not by U.S. military. The U.S. military uses every option available to avoid killing innocent people.   ???? You're kidding, right? How many times on the news have we heard that 'The US bombed a 'suspected' terrorist (house, car, etc.) killing everyone inside' innocent or not. The sad fact is we invaded Iraq for no reason. Over 2,500 US solders dead and 100,000 Iraqis dead. 'Bring em on'. If we were invaded by a foreign country how would you feel? And don't tell me Saddam was an evil dictator. There are many countries ruled by far worse than he. Dan V   Dave www.daveoconnell.com c3-inc-1967