>>>SNIP
>>>>It seems most of the countries that haven't tried to kill their own, have been western civilizations.
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>>>Uh oh, not gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole... :O)
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>>Hmmm, I must have missed the reports about Bush ordering the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people here in the US? I don't even remember Bill "The Evil One" Clinton doing anything comparable to Saddam's exterminations, or Pol Pot, or Hitler, or . . . .
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>Have simple question;
>Did more Iraqees died while Saddam was on top, or after he was toppled ?
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>Does it really matter at the end who gets killed as direct result of someone's crazy politics ?
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>Nobody died in US yet, but when human life (and rule of law) get disregarded and devaluated on such massive scales as it is happening lately, then don't get surprised tmrw, if/when some crazy general of yours wipes out entire Time Square or Central Park full of protesters.
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Dude, you've been watching too many movies. And, as to the Saddam question, I believe I've seen reports of over 100,000 Iraqis being killed by Saddam. I doubt that many have died in the war, but even if they have, it's a war. Saddam killed his own people.