Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:16:04 -0500, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> 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.

I rest my case.