Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

"Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>As you say, I'm all for killing the terrorists, when they can be found.
>>But part of the "education" process is to provide a social environment
>>in which that can take place. As Bush pointed out, democracies are not
>>prone to starting wars with innocent neighbors. I do not think it is
>>the population of Iraq that is so opposed to democracy; the problem is
>>being im****ted from other countries, like Iran.
>
> When democracies (and other states) start wars, they define the enemy
> as guilty.   And every state is guilty of stuff.    If we don't find
> weapons of mass destruction, we change our excuse.

Anyone who thinks Sadam Hussein wasn't interested in WMD is ignorant
of recent history and clueless about human nature. If we did not find
them, it was because he had moved them elsewhere, and/or not yet
developed what he wanted. What would have been better, to have waged
WWII in Europe, or taken Hitler out when he first started violating
the Armistice agreement? The latter would have saved some 50 million
lives and the devastation of Europe. Sadam Hussein, like Joseph Stalin,
is one of the few men in history who have fair claim to being more evil
than Hitler. Even Hitler had friends and people he cared about, but
Saddam Hussein, like Stalin, had no such human emotion and was more
like a reptile than a human. Hussein was a serious danger to anyone on
the planet, and I for one will gladly pay my share of taxes to take him
out. But people clueless about human nature, like Neville Chamberlain,
never understand true evil until it bites their heads off, and then it
is too late, unfortunately, usually for many others.
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