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Originally posted by crowkid
Thank God the President of The United States can only be elected by Americans, not misinformed, misguided, Canadians and Europeans "who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls." (Props to you for that help Mr. John McCain ;-) )
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I am American.
I don't care if Saddam killed or tortured islamic fundamentalists. If he hadn't been brutal, they would have taken power. As we are learning, it's hard to keep these psychos under control. He also gassed the kurds (a group of religious radicals trying to start a civil war and claim land they have no historic right to) while busy battling Iran.
When thinking strategically, you cannot afford to cry over individuals. I'm sure innocents suffered. However that has nothing to do with what is in the best interests of America.
Thanks to GW Bush, in the absence of someone as tough on the clerics as Saddam, soon we will be facing a United Islamic States who will be governed by the most fundamental anti-western extremist religious leaders - who will control almost all of the worlds oil and share a nuclear arsenal.