“I would not want to live under them but it is a different world over there and it takes a strongman to keep a lid on things.”
True. As long as it’s only Iraqis—men, women, children & babies—Saddam is killing & torturing to death, good enough. Of course, it wouldn’t be right if ***American*** women were being systematically raped & their children tortured to death. But it’s a different world over there. Genocide is okay as long as a “strongman” is in charge of it. Besides, Iraqis & Kurds aren’t really ‘human’ in the same way as Americans. They don’t mind much, if at all, when their babies are tortured or gassed to death. We couldn’t let that happen to *American* babies, needless to say, but Iraqi/Kurd babies...meh. Let them suffer; let them die. It’s a different world over there, after all.
I guess I should add a sarc tag so I don’t get banned. To be clear, I didn’t mean one word of the above post. I’m just sick to death of the idea that as long as it’s only Iraqis & Kurds who had to live—& die—under Saddam’s sadistic reign of terror, it’s okay. If Americans are not being raped, tortured, gassed & mass-murdered, then let Saddam & the boys have their fun. Makes me ill.
Have none of these smug people ever seen a single photo of Saddam’s atrocities? Whole villages of dead Kurds, many who died with their babies in their arms, trying to shield them. How do people live such sheltered lives that such documented scenes of horror never penetrate? Being gassed to death is a horrible way to go. Of course, it wasn’t just Kurds that he killed. It’s estimated that, independent of the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam killed ~a million of his own people. He maimed & tortured many more. How on earth can people say, ‘as long as it wasn’t happening to me, it’s fine’?
Some things I will never understand.
Man, tbat’s a knee jerk, emotional reaction. The reality is we cannot save the world plus there is no anchor of Western values over there to build on, the only thing they know is force. We have been trying for years to teach them our way but it hasn’t worked, it is up to them to want to change and except for a few, they don’t.