Its official... The world hates us...

[HotRoddin]

Originally posted by bri32zz
Unless another country does things to us, I say let's ignore them.

I gotta tell ya bri32zz, that attitude baffles me completely. Sadam is a brutal dictator. The man releases poison gas on his own people. Gases whole villages full of women and children. Has palaces with almost obscene opulence spread all over his country while huge numbers of his people go hungry. He tortures and executes people in mass, including his own family members, then watches video tapes of it for pleasure. Oh and lets not forget he despises Americans because we stand in the way of him gaining ever more power and wealth. Add to all that, if we lift the sanctions he'll have billions of dollars in oil revenues to spend on weapons that can incenerate everything in milliseconds (if you're lucky), or put you on the ground within 20 seconds, shaking, drooling, unable to breathe, dead within minutes. Diseases that cause slow agonizing death over weeks, especially in the the old and sick and the young. Many of these weapons he already has, the rest he's trying desperately to aquire. It's scary as hell when civilized nations have these weapons, but in the hands of a power hungry dictator it's worse than scary, its terrifying !
Sadam is a Hitler a Stalin a Pol Pot ... a man with out compassion or conscience. I see nothing historical or otherwise to support the idea that if we turn our backs and ignore him, he'll just fade away ?

While i'm ranting, let me put my 2 cents worth in on another subject. Debate .... debate is not a bad thing ! Our founding fathers wrote the constitution after days and days of intense almost fist swinging debate. It forces you to confront other points of view. It forces compromise to extreme positions. It forces you to think about the issues. What if our founding fathers would have sat back in a chair sippin whiskey and said "Hell, write what ever you want in that thing, i don't want to get involved, and i don't want to get in an argument." Debate is a good thing ! Perhaps this forum isn't the place for it but we need to take the time to debate right now. The free flow of differing ideas is what has made this country what it is. In plain talk, stirrin up a little sh** once in awhile is a good thing. IMHO