> OK not a main argument against invastion - but a good reply to one argument.
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>The claim is that Iraq was uniquely evil because of
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>1) Actually having used WMD
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>2) Because he used them against his own people.
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>That we sold them to him at the time he was doing this is a good
>reply to these - since apparently we did not think these particular
>things made him uniquely evil at the time. And it is a special point
>that Cheney was one of the ones who sold stuff to him.
So what? That's history, as 41 used to say to dismiss something as irrelevant. Or, that was then, this was now. Saddam (or my role model, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) was an important ally in our struggle against Iran (or the USSR). But they've since gone on to terrible things, and we must stop them.
Doug