[justshutupandtakeit]

So you are saying leave the weapons with the Puppet Master of Terrorism rather than the Puppets. Brilliant.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

So you are saying leave the weapons with the Puppet Master of Terrorism rather than the Puppets. Brilliant.

Nope.

Somehow -- you managed to both invert what I said, AND invert the whole Focus of the Article, all in a single, apparently-dyslexic Posting!!

Impressive. Quite. Indeed.

Lemme help you through this, kindergartener (I'll use "puppets", since you seem to understand the medium).

AHEM: The ARTICLE says that the mangy "Puppets" in Iraq no longer have the "Big Bad Nasties", because the "Puppet Master" decided to Export the "Big Bad Nasties" all over the world as soon as he figured out that his strings were about to be cut.

I SUGGESTED (as I have suggested on this Forum... for years) that while Colin Powell was stalling the UN, Dubya Bush could have rescinded "Falling Down Ford"s Executive Order 12333 concerning Assassination (it's an E.O., any President can rescind the Order) and given the Boys in Black a chance to hone their wet-work skills on one Saddam Hussein and his Boyz.

Dead Saddam = No Orders to Export the "Big Bad Nasties" worldwide (If you were an Iraqi General who suddenly found Saddam dead, and yourself in charge of the Iraqi State, wouldn't you focus on consolidating your domestic control? Yeah, I figured you would).

And, if Assassination didn't work... we could always go to war anyway, of course.

Assassination of an Aggressive Enemy Tyrant is, compared to outright War, simply the morally-preferable Option for the Christian Ethicist (See the example of Ehud, Judges 3:15-26; no "collateral damage", just one dead "Terrorist Puppet Master") -- and should be attempted first.

That's all I'm saying.

NOW do you understand, Moppet?

best, op