From: Phil Payne 

Randall Parker wrote:
>
> I was arguing with Gene about his own contention that Saddam didn't
> obstruct the UNSCOM inspectors.

He didn't, until the USA filled the inspection teams with CIA operatives
charged with target designation.

> Gullible about what exactly? I'm very pleased that a guy who used to
> escort his sons when they were still children to visit torture chambers
> to watch real live torturings is overthrown. I think that is great. I
> think it is great that people are no longer being fed into meat grinders
> too.

Gullible is a very good word.  Use it again.

> As for deliverably weapons of mass destruction: So if he had abandoned
> working on them would you prefer that the meat grinders had continued
> operating?

That wasn't the justification for the attack.  It was the imminent danger
his fictional weapons of mass destruction posed.  If you went to the UN and
asked for a mandate to attack because the head of state was a murdering
bastard, you'd find yourself in a long queue.

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