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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed on Friday that she's spoken to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley about preventing President Trump from ordering a nuclear strike. She referred to the president as "unstable" in the wake of Wednesday's violence on Capitol Hill following his rally. "This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike," Pelosi said in a letter to colleagues.

By even the most liberal standards, Saddam Hussein is responsible for the deaths of more people than anyone except for Hitler, Stalin and Mao, and maybe Pol Pot. Other than those slime balls, Hussein’s regime had brought more suffering and more to the point more likely suffering to others in the future than anyone on the planet. Sanctions by the UN didn’t stop him, defeat in first Gulf War didn’t stop him, in fact, he used the sanctions to kill more of his own people (he kept the oil for food money himself) to gain sympathy from the French. When...