Reply #88: Saddam didn't have a war machine! [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

In any case it needs to be mentioned that some very thoughtful and well-meaning people DID support this war, because they felt the human rights issues were overwhelming AND because they feared Saddam and his war machine.

Saddam's human rights record was no worse than that of his neighbors and he was not the only one to use poison gas in the region, Iran having done so during the Iran-Iraq War, and the British being the first to use poison gas to put down an Iraqi rebellion in the 1920s.

Saddam didn't have a war machine! The US obliterated Saddam's military during the noble Gulf War. All Saddam had was enough of a force to keep himself in power.

I hope you don't include pukes such as Judith Miller and Tom Friedman among the unnamed "very thoughtful and well-meaning people" that supported the war. These pukes peddled to the public the many lies of the Bush Administration about WMDs in Iraq, and they bear responsibility for the carnage we have unleashed on the innocent people of Iraq. We have done more harm to Iraq than Saddam ever did!