[MD] Intellect battles the [immigrant] barbarians

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

Platt,

I think my post indicated it was common knowledge since the early 80s that
Hussein not only possessed chemical weapons, used them via arms and technology
we supplied him, and committed egregious human rights violations within his
borders. Since most of his pre-1990s power was bolstered by Republicans in the
USA, despite global outcry, it seems a bit odd that citing how democrats in the
late 1990s condemning Hussein's regime would mean anything other than "too
little, too late, and too party oriented".

At any rate, that there were significant problems to address in the Middle East,
not the least of which was stopping Hussein from using chemical weapons against
civilizians more than twenty-years after we knew about it, is hardly disputed.
What is ultimately fallacious, however, is the Holier-Than-Thou "Liberator"
rhetoric, coming from a country that turned so many blind-eyes when so many
thousands were killed in a war we double-dipped arms sales to nurture.

Your outrage, for example, at the "woodchipper" incidents would ring more
sincere if you also expressed outrage at your own Party who not only
profiteered from his immoral exploits from over a decade, but showed no
interest in "liberty, freedom or democracy" until it was politically expedient
to do so. As it stands, you do little more than lead cheerleading for whatever
stance-du-jour the Party takes, one day supporting a brutal regime murdering
thousands and thousands with US supplied tools, and the next pretending to be
Noble Freedom Warriors.

And it precisely this nonsense, which as I've said countless times on this site,
is what will keep any real resolution from occuring.