I can't say it would be better to have Saddam Hussein still in charge, because I never lived in a country he ran. I can't quantify it in that way because I have no basis for comparison. And in a way, you're right, some good has come of it; there's not a tyrannical despot running the country. The problem is that I'm not sure if anyone, there or here, is sure who's running the country, and there's nothing more terrifying than uncertainty. Unless it's armed soldiers running around the place and factions opposing the current governmental trend in the country running around alternately blowing things up and shooting people. I just love how people justify war on Iraq without even once thinking of the fact that we as nations didn't have to get involved, and frankly didn't get involved until it benefitted us in some way. Bush Sr launches the Gulf War because Iraq is invading Kuwait, and he didn't seem to think it was necessary to oust the tyrannical despot entirely once he'd driven the Iraqi forces back into their own borders. And at least he had a valid reason for engaging the armed forces against Iraq, rather than lies on top of lies on top of lies. You can paint it as pretty as you like, about how the US and UK armies are liberating the poor repressed people of Iraq and they got mean ol' Saddam Hussein, but that will not change the fact that the war was founded on lies, unsanctioned by the UN, derided by most of the world and a fair number of the people living in the countries actually fighting it, is draining resources that could best be used to help the hurricane victims (instead of siphoning off funds from things that can't afford it, like Medicaid) and has killed thousands of people over the past few years, mostly by accident.
The man in charge thinks God tells him what to do. He listens to the voices in his head and somehow loses no credibility. If he turns around and nominates someone who's never even served as a judge to the Supreme Court, and still loses no credibility because "He's the Prez, he can nominate who he wants", I despair for your country. And of course, I'm not even remotely in agreement on your views on abortion or the 2nd amendment, so I'm not even going to touch that one.
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Date: 2005-11-02 05:32 pm (UTC)The man in charge thinks God tells him what to do. He listens to the voices in his head and somehow loses no credibility. If he turns around and nominates someone who's never even served as a judge to the Supreme Court, and still loses no credibility because "He's the Prez, he can nominate who he wants", I despair for your country. And of course, I'm not even remotely in agreement on your views on abortion or the 2nd amendment, so I'm not even going to touch that one.