RW mantra regarding Saddam and justifying the invasion

[SHRED]

"But he slaughtered his own people and was a ruthless dictator"
"The world is better off without him"

As if this somehow justifies the last 4 years.
As if the right wingers even gave a rat's ass before these comments became talking points for the Repubs.
As if they even cared when Rumsfeld and Cheney were selling him chemical weapons.

They are so phony and transparent and their pResident is at astronomically low poll numbers because he is the worst in our lifetime, maybe ever.

[aquart]

1. Well, he slaughtered less of them in 23 years than we did in 4.

I guess Americans are just better at everything.

And that's the answer I'd give.

[Lasher]

5. That is so good.

When I need material I'm coming to you.

[Az]

2. The bear buttplug analogy

Just before bears begin to hibernate they eat a lot of grass and leaves. Substances that don't digest easily. This forms a pulpy mass that lodges in their sphincter in order to prevent them from soiling themself and their nest during the long months of hibernation. In the spring the plug is removed and .... a disgusting part of nature takes its course.

Saddam Hussein was Iraq's buttplug. He was an ugly disgusting thing holding back something even worse. But some people decided that the plug needed to be removed because it was a disgusting thing. And now America has bear shit all over it. With Saddam gone we suddenly found ourselves trying to cram our own soldiers into the breech to stem the flow of excrement. But thats not the way it works. So we sit there trying to cram our soldiers into the hole all the while being covered in more and more effluence.

[kentuck]

3. That's the most ntersting analogy I've ever read...

a bear buttplug?? :)

[lapfog_1]

4. You know, in the past (and likely RIGHT NOW), there are plenty

of dictators around the world that we are on very good terms with as a nation... many of whom have slaughtered their own people and were very ruthless.

So, should we have invaded Iran when the Shah was there (SAVAK was very good at the torture thing). Marcos? the list could go on and on.

clearly being a brutal dictator who kills off his own people has NEVER been reason for us to invade and remove in the past, or even lodge a diplomatic protest... so why this one?