All right, I have written and erased this response three times, trying to ratchet it down. Forgive me if I still sound waspish. I do want to keep the dialogue going.
Iraquis would have died under Saddam Hussein, had we continued to do nothing.
So we were justified in killing them? We killed those 100,000 Iraquis. Not Saddam Hussein. We did. And given that the stated reason we went into Iraq (WMD) turned out not to be true, I'm having a hard time seeing the larger pattern that justifies that blood on our hands.
It can't have been an easy decision.
I would find it easier to believe that George Bush struggled at all with these decisions if he hadn't mocked Karla Fay Tucker before denying her appeal and sending her to her death.
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Date: 2004-11-03 02:32 pm (UTC)Iraquis would have died under Saddam Hussein, had we continued to do nothing.
So we were justified in killing them? We killed those 100,000 Iraquis. Not Saddam Hussein. We did. And given that the stated reason we went into Iraq (WMD) turned out not to be true, I'm having a hard time seeing the larger pattern that justifies that blood on our hands.
It can't have been an easy decision.
I would find it easier to believe that George Bush struggled at all with these decisions if he hadn't mocked Karla Fay Tucker before denying her appeal and sending her to her death.