[bill1952]

>he overthrow of one of the most tolerant Islamic governments in the Middle East (the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein); and

Oh please.

Saddam was a murderous thug that paid the families of suicide bombers when they killed a Jew.

His tyranny included Christians because it was the Ba’ath party, which did have some Christian roots in its founders (much like the NAZI party did) and is one of the most despotic, murderous parties in the history of the world, not because it was more tolerant,
The Ba’ath have also run the Syrian government since 1963. - Syria is a nice, tolerant country, right?

If you don’t know the complete history of the Ba’ath, then you are basically not informed enough on this.

[Alberta's Child]

Dude -- The 9/11 attacks were carried out primarily by Saudi nationals, and their financial support came from people that included Saudi royal family members. Why this "war on terror" was carried out without leaving that country a smoking ruins is surely a question worth asking, isn't it?

You'll never hear me stand up and pretend the Ba'athist government in Iraq was filled with Boy Scouts and altar boys . . . but there was nothing about them that was atypical of the ruling regimes in those Islamic countries in the Middle East.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm not suggesting the guy is an ardent Christian in any way. But do you think you'd ever find someone like Tariq Aziz in the Saudi government?

I didn't think so.