Posted on 11/27/2006 1:22:07 AM PST by Zakeet
We did not "install" Saddam.
Really, Johnny?
Yes, I know. Hussein is a psychotic mass murderer. Under his rule, Iraqis were shot, tortured and lived in constant fear. Bringing the dictator back would sound cruel if it weren't for the fact that all those things are also happening now, probably on a wider scale.
Probably? This means that the author doesn't really know and is talking extra-rectally. In short, the average liberal idiot with his keyboard in gear and his mind in park.
Given the chance, the left would've reinstalled Hitler.
I just want Chait to stand in front of a crowd of Kurds and explain why it would be good for Hussein to be back in power.
Why do all those retro-prognosticators think bringing the deposed Saddam BACK, would AT ANY POINT have made things "better" than what "filled the void" during his absence? He would probably just gas everyone except Sunnis- there are plenty of forces fighting for control now that are doing so precisely because he has been deposed, and they would have about as much use for him as he would for them/--No, he was scheduled by History to be deposed. History, like the Moon, is a harsh mistress.
Someone posted a link to it here a while back.
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The war would have been over in '03 if I were calling the shots. Straight to Bahgdad, east to Damascus, continue to the Mediteranean at Beruit. Cut a "Swath to the sea", ripping the center out of the "Muslim" world and truely impressing them with who the "Strong horse" is.
I read a BBC piece recently in which the writer asserted that Americans think they are bad at democracy but good at war when the opposite is the truth. I was taken aback by this but then it struck me. We really are good at democracy and lousy at war. Don't get me wrong, we're great at battles. We win every battle we're in and we've been in lots of battles in the last 60 years, but we haven't won a war since 1945. We have not had the political will to do so. Patton scared a good portion of the US public even in the midst of WWII. Nowadays Sherman would be locked up as criminally insane. I keep seeing pictures showing how bighearted our guys are and it moves me deeply. But wars are won by ruthlessness. Magnamity should be reserved for after victory. God bless. I admire you.
What a moron....
Look, these thoughts are not new!
It was already in August 2003 when some media prophet had the same ideas and wrote:
>> I propose a simple and elegant solution: Bring back Saddam Hussein. <<
It looks like J. Chait just copied them. :-)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-stockler081403.asp
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