[copycat]

You haven't changed my opinion.

[Burkeman1]

Why? Your reasons were "human rights" and other such nonsense (rights don't just grow on trees). The regimes we back are despicable in comparison to Iraq. Make no mistake. Sadaam is a brutal ruler and a Tyrant of the first order. But there are freedoms his people enjoy and that we take for granted that our "allies" suppress with the same torture and murder.