Reply #8: So it's our job to police the world? [View All]

[livinginphotographs]

What about Saudi Arabia? What about numerous African countries? Iran? Syria?

Not to downplay how utterly horrible a person Saddam was, but this human rights argument from the right just doesn't wash with me. At first it was non-existent WMDs, then it was human rights. Pick a reason for the war and stick with, for christ's sake.

And when 100,000 Iraqi civilians lay dead at the hands of the US, is Bush just trying to one-up Saddam to see who can be the biggest butcher?