"The world is safer with Saddam gone"

[Abe Froman]

How nice to hear some people finally saying that they don't feel that way.

With Saddam in power, it sucked for the Iraqis. With Saddam out of power, it seems to have made it suck for the US and its colalition of the billing.
And the Iraqis still.

[D_Raay]

Amen Abe

[Spanishbomb808]

Should've just killed him in '91...

[SobaViolence]

how about not putting him/keeping him in power?

[D_Raay]

* Four years from now, America will have 5,000 dead servicemen and women and an untold number of dead Iraqis at a cost of about $1 trillion, yet still be no closer to success than we are right now, or
* The U.S. will be gone, and we will witness the birth of a violent breeding ground for Shiite terrorists posing a far greater threat to Americans than a contained Saddam.

To discern the truth about Iraq, Americans must simply look beyond the spin. This war is not some noble endeavor, some great struggle of good against evil as the Bush administration would have us believe.
This war is an exercise in colossal stupidity and hubris which has now cost more than 1,000 American military lives, which has empowered Al Qaeda beyond anything those butchers might have engineered on their own and which has diverted America's attention and precious resources from the real threat at the worst possible time. And now, in a supreme act of truly breathtaking gall, this administration insists the only way to fix Iraq is to leave in power the very ones who created the nightmare.