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in Ron Paul's world the Iraqi people would still be fed into industrial shredding machines

You're not calling for a US invasion of China. Does that make you responsible for continued Chinese persecution of christians and political dissenters? No. By the same token, Paul wasn't for the invasion of Iraq - and that doesn't make him responsible for Saddam's persecutions. We can't invade every country that has a bad ruler, or 1) you'll have to hand over 100 percent of your paycheck to the government, to pay the bill; 2) we'll have to draft everybody over age 21, because there are dozens of countries around the globe that we'll have to invade.

A simpleton's excuse is what you're offering, and that doesn't surprise me a bit. Nobody is calling for a U.S. invasion of Communist China because quite frankly, Beijing has a few billion more people than did Saddam, and I never said that Ron Paul was responsible for Saddam's behavior, as usual you're twisting things around: what I SAID was that in Ron Paul's world, the Iraqi people would still be fed into industrial shredding machines and that is an absolute truism because he DID oppose the liberation of Iraq, just as he opposes any U.S. action against Iran.

And nobody I know is calling for "invading every country that has a bad ruler", that's a straw man argument and you bloody well know it.

The fact is, Saddam was in violation of the terms of his surrender to coalition forces after Gulf War I, he was in violation of countless U.N. resolutions requiring him to give up and account for ALL weapons of mass destruction and their accompanying programs, and he all but dared the international community to take him out, and it was up to the United States to do just that, and the Iraqi people will be better for it.

It is an impossibility for a nation of approximately 300 million people to invade "every country that has a bad ruler", but you knew that.

But Saddam needed to be taken out like the garbage he was, and the civilized world is silently breathing a sigh of relief.

Except for Ron Paul, who indeed isn't responsible for Saddam's crimes, and nobody suggested he was.

The fact is, unless the liberation of Iraq had been absolutely totally scripted according to Ron Paul's definition of what is a "Constitutional War", he (in my opinion) wouldn't have given a good g*d@mn about the Iraqi people as long as America could hide between our two oceans like we used to do way back in his 'good old days' that he aspires to.

Back to you Sparky.