> I point out that the deposing and
> capture of Saddam Hussein, one of the worst dictators of the modern era,
> is a Good Thing.
My point is, the metric of evil in 2003 has to be the structural violence of multinational capitalism itself. The Baathist regime was vile, no question, but Saddam's crimes pale next to the structural violence unleashed by the World Bank/IMF -- a body count of millions, versus hundreds of millions. I await the citizens' arrest and popular trial of senior IMF staffers with glee.
> I find this kind of reasoning absolutely fascinating-- if only for the
> fact that everyday life under Saddam Hussein is left unmentioned. Have
> you ever bothered to read the accounts of his rule?
Sure -- including the account of Rummy's famous handshake.
> (You say that the U.S. occupation _will_ cause "inconceivably more
> horror and suffering in the region than the sanctions ever did." Not
> that it's merely possible, but that it _will_ happen.
Based on what's happened just six months after the invasion, catastrophe is an entirely reasonable extrapolation.
-- DRR