[Billthedrill]

Oh, I comprehend what you wrote very well. You are attempting to claim that a government populated by thugs that routinely gassed, shot, tortured, raped, and oppressed its people is preferable to the one that isn't even formed yet, because you don't like some of the things you're hearing about the new one's legal foundations. That's about it, isn't it?

[churchillbuff]

You are attempting to claim that a government populated by thugs that routinely gassed, shot, tortured, raped, and oppressed its people is preferable to the one that isn't even formed yet"""

Nope, I'm saying that it wasn't our business to displace that government, NOT because I endorse their brutality, but because it wasn't a threat to us - - and it's also the case that it's going to be replaced by Islamic fundamentalism.

[churchillbuff]

You are attempting to claim that a government populated by thugs that routinely gassed, shot, tortured, raped, and oppressed its people is preferable"""

You mean the Chinese government? I haven't heard you call for invading China - - does that mean you support its brutality? No it doesnt. I'm not juvenile enough to accuse you of supporting Chinese brutality, the way you accuse me of supporting Saddam brutality. You may not support invading ?China or Cuba or North Korea or Zimbabwe, but only a nitwit would say that means you support their brutality. So stop being a nitwit and saying I support Saddam's brutality. I didn't see the invasion as necessary to our interests - - that's a very different thing.