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I have to wonder if expecting the Iraqi people to take to democracy is a bit like expecting an only child to know how to share and play nice with others. I'm not sure bombing them really makes sense. I hate to agree with dimwit Herbivore, but there are far bigger offendors we're calling allies who would make for much better targets if we're going to make anyone a target at all.

That said - what purpose does this nonsense about talking up Hussein's good points serve????? Yeah they have a great sewage and garbage system... because he's a crazed maniac with fucked up priorities. Iraq IS oppressive.

- Hussein DID gas the kurds,
- he was involved with wiping out an entire Jewish community
-he did attack neighboring countrys unprovoked,
- he has financially rewarded the families of Palestinians that commit suicide, and funded groups on our most wanted terrorist list
- he was involved in the first WTC bombing!!!!
- he has harbored terrorists such as abu nidal and allowed refuge for al qaeda training camps on occassion.
- he has actively created and USED chemicals on innocents
- he has kept prisoners of war
- and finally... he has violated UN resolutions, only it's the least of his sins.

To say he provides free education, or even free haircuts for that matter means very little. Women are allowed to school in Iraq? How many female doctors, lawyers, politicians, scientists etc. are there in Iraq???? You can call him a moderate and compare the worser of two evils, but evil is still evil. You can be anti war without being pro Saddam. Try it.