[Austin Willard Wright]

So....are you suggesting that we send the marines to overthrow every dicatator who tortues his own people? Where do you intend to get the troops and money to pay for this grand Wilsonian crusade?

[freestyle]

>>>So....are you suggesting that we send the marines to overthrow every dictator who tortures his own people? Where do you intend to get the troops and money to pay for this grand Wilsonian crusade?


Why do people insist on making these comparisons? I've heard them go so far as to say "The United States has WMD. Should we invade ourselves?".

There are obviously many, many, many, many, many reasons and factors that go into a President's final decision on whether or not to use force. It is just plain disingenuous to argue that the ONLY reason to go to war was "the existence of ready to go stockpiles" or "the capability to create wmd" or "his torture of his own people" or "the threat that he might give or sell weapons to terrorists," or "his funding of outside terrorists" or "his connections to al-qaeda" or "his assassination attempt on an American president", or his "harboring of terrorists," etc, etc, etc.

See what I did there? Which one would you like to "pick off" and say, "See! We didn't need to go to war!"...

..."China has been known to torture thier own people, should we invade them?"

blah, blah, blah, I'm sick of that argument.

Sorry.