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"Business as usual"? I fail to see how things like Halabja constitute "Business as usual". You seem to be implying that Saddam's massacres are somehow justified by the fact that he was a dictator, and therefor can be ignored by the rest of the world. Please clarify what you meant here.

The rest of the world could mostly care less. The eyes of the world are NOT on Iraq, they have their own problems to deal with and they deal with them. No one said anything about justifying Saddam's actions, don't put words in people's mouths or draw incorrect conclusions. The eyes of the world are on, as USUAL, the US and its boneheaded governmental idiocies. Many people in Iraq did not like the way the government ran. Many people in the US do not like the way the government works. However, these same people in Iraq were terrified when an invasion intended to remove their government took place. I am willing to put a lot of money on the fact that the people in the US would also be terrified if an invasion took place to remove our government. The US government, and through media manipulation the US people as well, seem to have this delusion that the US has the perfect system and that everyone else's system is wrong and MUST BE CONVERTED. I'd call it the Modern Day Crusades...convert or kill all who don't believe. At the same time, other countries believe THEIR system to be the perfect system, and everyone else's system is wrong and MUST BE CONVERTED. The only difference is that the US is the only country with the military strength to actually attempt to convert other countries to our own corrupt system. Trading one corruption for another. Like someone said...it was hell before, but now it's a different hell. The only truly sad part about it all is that simply...this is life. This is all human nature. And there isn't much anyone can really do about it.