[Wilhelm Tell]

I'm sure some "peace" activists will say all this is made up by the Americans or maybe the Americans or British impersonated Baathist thugs and committed these crimes. There is a segment of the left that believes that the West is absolutely evil and anyone who opposes the West is thus automatically good. Their anti-Westernism causes them to whitewash Saddam (or Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot), just like some anti-Semites are driven to deny the Nazi's crimes. There is an amazing mental or moral defect in some people that causes them to embrace totalitarinism--ANY form of totalitarianism. I suspect that these pathetic people get a feeling of power from identifying with tyrants.

[oyez]

These people seem to have confusion with authority and they do not recognise absolutes so they have a latent vacuum with in their moral make up. A Stalin would probably fit right in to that vaccuum.

[Anamensis]

I'm sure some "peace" activists will say all this is made up by the Americans or maybe the Americans or British impersonated Baathist thugs and committed these crimes.

Our own lefties might not go quite that far, but they'll definitely insist that these murders are in response to our invasion and that if we hadn't invaded they wouldn't have "felt compelled" to do this. I call it the "Chomsky-on-Cambodia" response.