From: "Mark" 


"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
news:ugmme0dolq64otrp7flof9nf33bmd36e4k{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:11:00 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
> >news:su7ke0t0k3mvk61t6otvkc0ccakeftgdcs{at}4ax.com...
> >
> >> No, but obviously you got taken in by the TV coverage. That stuff was
blatant
> >> anti-Saddam propaganda in that the Kurds had brought that mess upon
> >themselves
> >> by revolting against the Iraqi government in an effort to establish an
> >> independent Kurdistan.
> >
> >I know what the situation was Gene, that didn't change my opinion on
saddam
> >being such a nice guy..
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> I don't understand. Who has said that Saddam was a nice guy?  The point is
that
> he was no worse than any other murderous tyrant we have supported over the
> years. In some ways, he was considerably better. Did he kill more people
than
> most of his types we have supported? Yes, but that was in putting down
> rebellions. We did much the same in our own civil war and for much the
same
> reasons.

So, if I understand your argument, that's the way it's always been in the
past, so we should not endeavor to change anything going forward? Just keep
on keeping on and while we're at it, not bother even discussing the
situation in the Sudan, just let it play out Rwandan like... 

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