??? I guess I just do not understand your logic here. I guess we should have continued to ignore the horrific acts of Saddam Husseim and allowed him to continue on killing innocents? What about them? Who was going to stand up for them and do something? I guess it should have been anyone but us? Those are not scare tactics, they are reality. I really don't know the number of innocents killed by us during the Iraqi conflict. I do know that Saddam killed around a million. Which is the lessor evil? Is either less? Can they be compared? Do you do nothing because additional damage may be done if you act?

I could understand your comments if you believed we should not act at all regardless and you believed in staying out of other countries affairs regardless, but you state instead horrific acts do little to motivate us to do anything and yet we are wrong for acting also? I guess I just do not understand.

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>While I wish we(americans) valued all life equally, we do not. Horrific acts do little to motivate us to do anything. Poor intelligence and repeated scare tactics of nuclear destruction from the leaders of our nation do the trick. The countless innocent Iraqi people that have died at our hands are not even mentioned.
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>>That would be the 182,000 Kurds I think...oh that's right, they are just missing, not dead...
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>>>So which of these is Sadaam responsible for? Or is it one you left off the list (Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine, Atlanta Olympics, Abortion Clinics, ...)?
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>>>>We have been attacked by terriorists for decades. It's past time to put a stop to it.
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>>>>1979 - Tehran
>>>>1983 - US Embassy in Beirut; Marine barracks in Beirut; US Embassy in Kuwait
>>>>1985 - Madrid; Rhein-Main AB, Germany; Achille Lauro
>>>>1986 - TWA Flight 840
>>>>1988 - Pan Am Flight 103
>>>>1993 - World Trade Center
>>>>1995 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
>>>>1996 - Khobar Towers
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>>>>On and on...US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the USS Cole.....and 9/11. Someone had to stand up and confront the bad guys, and one of them is/was Sadaam.