We'd be better off with Saddam because thousands would still be alive

[skjpm]

No one seems to answer the question correctly--Would you rather see Saddam in power? Well, yeah--thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would still be alive. And we'd be slowing working with UN troops and diplomacy, initially to defang Saddam, and then peacefully replace him. I think we'd be much better off. They should ask the parents of the dead--would you rather have your children alive and Saddam still in power? I bet that even the Iraqis would rather have Saddam than hundreds of thousands of innocent dead.

[Jacobin]

1. In about two more years

(after the poop really hits the fan and Iraq is at war with its neighbors and the M.E. is a boiling cauldron of blood), I predict that the general consensus will be that Saddam should not have been removed.

He was a brutal dictator who kept the peace and kept the tribes from open warfare.

We, on the other hand, are killing them by the thousands and have no semblance of order

[txaslftist]

2. Ok, here's my jingoistic southern redneck response.

Was Saddam a bad guy, killing his own folks the Kurds and all that?
Yup.

Was it worth the life of a single American soldier to get rid of him?
Nope.

Sue me if I value the lives of my fellow countrymen over the oppressed masses in other places. 'Cause the bottom line is this: There's always gonna be oppressed masses somewhere.

And he weren't a threat TO US.

He was a threat so someone else, hence SEP.

[Vinca]

3. I've always wondered

why it's against our laws to send a "hit squad" in, take out the "evil doer" and come home. The tally of the dead would be: 1.

[First48H]

4. I'm Iraqi and I'd have to disagree

I've lived in America for 15 years but go back all the time. Have alot of family there. But have had a younger who was raped by Saddam's thugs of a son, Uday. Five family members that just disappeared only to turn up in a grave with hundreds of other murdered victims. There's NO way life was better for Iraqi's with Saddam there. Woman now have rights, they're running for office. My parents never dreamed this would happen. We don't want soldiers there forever but most are very grateful for what American's have done for us. Everybody in my family will be voting!