Euston Manifesto: Humanitarian Intervention post-Iraq (2/8)

[MajesticIndolence]

The moral obligation to destroy a monstrous genocidaire like Saddam Hussein, TrystanCJ, is not cancelled by a history of support--and just for your information, Trystan, the US was far from Hussein's major supplier of arms.

[kmarkymark]

Saddam would have gave up power for sanctuary for egypt, but US rejected this because they didn't invade Iraq to remove This Rogue and join him with other monsters that we've supported. They invaded iraq because Iraq has value in itself.

[ThePissedOffAtheist]

Kind of like breaking a person's window and claiming it would be "hypocritical" of you to pay for replacing the window because you're the one who broke it. That makes absolutely no sense! If we helped bring Saddam to power and armed and aided him in the past that, gives us a GREATER moral responsibility to topple him, not a lesser one.

[TrystanCJ]

The fascist regime that erm, the US supported . . .

Erm, until Saddam went for Kuwait . . .

. . . and erm, then it became officially "fascist".

Good luck in your support of right-wing pro-war government that lies in bed with Saudi Arabia and other erm, FASCIST states, chaps!