[Richard Axtell]

For once you are right. Put the 300,000+ decaying bodies back in their mass graves, and cover them over, as we had no reason to dig them up now did we? Saddam should be in power right now, regardless of what he has done, or what he will do. All those homeless orphans in those children's prisons? Perhaps they WERE better off there, who's to say? And Clinton was satisfied in leaving Saddam in power as his legacy, why should Bush be so picky? The 25 million citizens of Iraq don't really know what freedom is, since they have never experienced it, so what's the hurt in putting things back the way they were? I am only glad that Saddam is still alive, and we can correct this terrible injustice. Get him a shave, clean him up, even press his uniform, and put him back in his palace. Then, we can ask his forgiveness and hope he just lets bygones be bygones, eh? Certainly, we won't have to worry about any connections he might have had or still might use with terrorist organizations like Ansar-il-Islam, Hezbolla, The Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah, Hamas, the Egyptian wing of Islamic Jihad, or Al Qaida itself, as there never was any connection, right?

This whole thing is Bush's fault, as he incorrectly assumed there are Weapons of Mass Destruction in a country that in the past had used Weapons of Mass Destruction more than ten times in both massed battles against its neighbors, and against its own people, and that every international intelligence agency that had an opinion regarding this issue said exactly the same thing, and that the Democrats were almost in unison about this also, until the Presidential campaign started of course, and that Saddam could have defused this entire war if he just admitted that he hadn't retained any WMD's, instead of continuing a campaign of deception as if he were hiding WMDs, as the UN determined from their inspections. I mean, anyone could have seen through all that. Thanks for setting me straight.

[billbears]

Put the 300,000+ decaying bodies back in their mass graves, and cover them over, as we had no reason to dig them up now did we? Saddam should be in power right now, regardless of what he has done, or what he will do. All those homeless orphans in those children's prisons? Perhaps they WERE better off there, who's to say?

Of course. If it's a humanitarian issue, I'm sure we can expect the neocons in the administration to advocate 'regime change' in every dictatorship in the world. Right? Where are 'we' going next? Southeast Asia again? I'm sure there are a few governments in power there that deserve to be thrown out of power because of their lack of care for the citizens? Heck, how about China? We'll just pick them off on the way up to North Korea, right? Of course mind you, I can't seem to find 'spreading democracy and 'American' values' listed as a power in the Constitution. But heck we haven't let that document seriously bother the foreign policy of this nation of states since before Wilson. So let's get going!!

Certainly, we won't have to worry about any connections he might have had or still might use with terrorist organizations like Ansar-il-Islam, Hezbolla, The Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah, Hamas, the Egyptian wing of Islamic Jihad, or Al Qaida itself, as there never was any connection, right?

Another good point that you bring up. Watching Fox this afternoon, one of the talking heads stated that Al Qaeda was coming into Iraq. Funny, that. Since according to you the bases and contacts were well established.