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[Rhiannon]

And yes, Hussein may have commited atrocities, but it is a dictatorship, it's business as usual for them, as someone mentioned here.

"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.

Business as usual means these are common place things in Iraq, most of the Middle East isnt much better. Slavery and prostitution is business as usual in Eastern Europe, starvation in Africa, Southeastern Asia and South America, child kidnapping and smuggling throughout South America to sell as prostitutes in Mexico, and rampant abortion and female baby deaths in China. None of the things i mentioned above are justified by the type of govt they have. But I dont see the US running off to help these people. The US govt needs to cut the BS and stop saying the war in Iraq is to free the Iraqis, it's to get oil, and that is pretty obvious seeing their efforts to save burning oil fields and plants. Ousting Saddam was just a nice side show to distract the US people so they dont question why it has taken almost a year to "free the Iraqis".

But his atrocities are no worse than GWB trampling on the Constitution to install the Patriot Act, and inciting people's hate and intolerance towards Arabs and Muslims after 9/11 occured.

I agree that the Patriot Act, along with a lot GWB's other actions, are a bunch of crap, but on the same level as Bloody Friday...? I value my rights, but not so much that I consider them more valuable than the lives of thousands of innocents.

Bloody Friday? If you are referring to the Kurd massacre in 1988, (there is more than one Bloody Friday), just consider where Hussien got the weapons from. Sure wasnt from the sky. :roll:

Also, why not research the investigation the DOJ is carrying around in US prisons where Arabs and Muslims were held illegally and tortured by guards? Their only crime was being Muslim or Arab, so how is this any different than what Saddam did? And what about the massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What crime did those people commit? Oh, that's right, they were Japanese. And dont believe the propaganda BS of "the bomb was dropped to end the war". HA! The Japanese already knew they were losing, and wanted to surrender losing as little face as possible, but the US just needed an excuse to really test out their "little boy". Even if we pretended this was the reason, why use two bombs? Wouldnt one bomb have clearly sent the message to the Japanese? But the message wasnt for the Japanese, it was for the Russians, read your history.

People in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as in surrounding areas, are still afraid of dying from some radiation-related disease. The bomb was dropped in 1945, killing tens of thousands of innocent lives. In 1950, the fallout had continued to kill, claiming the lives of more than 350,000 people. People who had absolutely nothing to do with the war whatsoever.

So the US condemned Hitler for his actions, yet the US goes half way around the world and drops two bombs on innocent people. Did I miss something?

So, lesson of the day, as I have stated before, remove the fucking log from your own eye, US, before you attempt to go plucking the specks out of the rest of the world's eyes. You might pluck someone's eye out, and they will get awful pissy.