[A. Pole]

It is difficult to see how anyone interested in actually improving the Iraqi lot in life could proceed from the essential thesis that the tyrant wasn't really so bad after all.

Tell me, where Christians had more freedoms - in Saudi Arabia or in Baath ruled Iraq? Do you care at all?

[general_re]

Tell me why you insist on the fallacy of the false dichotomy, that Iraq must either labor under the tyrant Saddam or the mullahs of the house of Saud, and no other alternative is available, so therefore the tyrant is comparatively better and must be restored posthaste.

[normy]

Tell me, where Christians had more freedoms - in Saudi Arabia or in Baath ruled Iraq?

I know in Iraq if a Christian was deemed a threat to Saddam or his sons they could be put in a plastic shredder or their daughters raped in front of them or their sons tortured. I know if Uday thought a Christians daughter was pretty he could haul her away to be raped and killed just because he got off on it.

[MEG33]

Piffle...You are not professing love of Christianity when you are blind to the suffering under Saddam. My Christianity does not allow me to have such a view. You would think you wanted Saddam's cruelty to still be in place.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Our intentions were good, so it doesn't matter how it turns out-- sounds like something a liberal would say, but that's our policy, apparently.