10-07-2004, 04:00 PM
Evan Wrote:well that can be looked at as a PR fumble then, not an invalidation of the entire war, correct?A PR "fumble"?
The humanitarian benefit of this war is at least an order of magnitude greater than serbia.
"Sorry guys.. about that whole 'WMD', 'threat' thing.. we sent you the wrong press release. What we meant to say was, we are going to invade Iraq to free all the oppressed people there. Our bad."
If we really gave a rat's ass about the Iraqi people, we would have come up with a sanctions regime that didn't kill hundreds of thousands of them as Saddam sat back in his palaces laughing. Not exactly a great way to win the hearts and minds of the populace. The Iraqi people couldn't say "let the weapons inspectors in so we can have food and chlorine, please" but they were the victims anyway. Compare that to how many people actually died at Saddam's hands and tell me who the mass murderer is..
(that's a combined failing of the last 3 presidents, mind you.)
john
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