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People who get their news from the likes of Alex Jones and Michael Moore shoudln't be allowed to vote.

Brackish water bog
Catches the foppish dandy
In its web of lies.

[s] novium wrote on 19:57, 15th Nov 2004: I think everything would be better off if they had just used the number of troops the pentagon wanted to. Then, the whole thing might not have boiled over into this mess. [/i] Are you saying that the food-for-oil scandel is just US government propaganda? tak...

You're right, many people did want to end sanctions agaisnt Saddam. For example, the governments of France, Germany, and Russia to name a few. Removing sanctions would have put Iraqi oil on the open market, and $billions worth of oil contracts would be up for grabs (although there is reason to belie...

So, you're saying that the best way to have dealt with Saddam would have been to sit back and do nothing and let "justice" run its course? And this would naturally have lead to the "outbreak of democracy" in Iraq?

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

The CIA had already tried a coup in 1996, a miserable failure that was foiled by double agents working for Saddam, hundreds were executed in retaliation. An attempt to take out Saddam from within would have been too risky and unreliable, and even in the event that such a coup succeeded, the result w...

It amazes me that some people ('Fahrenheit 9/11' director Michael Moore for example) would have us believe that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was an oasis of peace. Even more outrageous are those who think that the absence of war is, by defenition = peace. Living in the democratized west it is easy to f...