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To: onedoug
I don't see where the victims of Hussein's dictatorship are lacking in morality, certainly not of the imported variety.
13 posted on 04/23/2003 4:20:14 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: gcruse
Everyone - including you and me - are victims of Hussein's dicatatorship. And those most directly affected could definitely use some of the "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" treatment.
15 posted on 04/23/2003 4:28:20 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: gcruse; onedoug
I don't see where the victims of Hussein's dictatorship are lacking in morality, certainly not of the imported variety.

The victims of a monster like Saddam are often complicit in their own destruction. He didn't himself pull many triggers (although he did pull a few). His orders were carried out by other people, who were recruited from among the populace at large.

Soldiers obey because they are afraid not to. Low level policemen, the same. Doctors cutting off ears, the same. A few doctors refused to obey and died. The rest obeyed and became Saddam's accomplices.

Everyone joined the Baath party; those few hardy souls who refused went into exile or died; the rest are complicit. A monster such as Saddam must overcome the morality that is built into the culture; if the level of morality is sufficiently well developed, guys like Saddam (and Hitler, and Stalin, and Mao) get smothered in their cribs, or wind up as inmates at a mental hospital, or victims of a coup d'etat at the hands of some general with a slightly better developed sense of good and evil.

22 posted on 04/23/2003 5:02:10 PM PDT by marron
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To: gcruse
I don't see where the victims of Hussein's dictatorship are lacking in morality, certainly not of the imported variety.

OK. Fair enough.

They can keep all Christian missionaries out of Iraq if we can keep all Muslims out of the USA, including the hundreds of Wahabbi mosques Saudi Arabia has built here!

24 posted on 04/23/2003 5:09:32 PM PDT by Gritty
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