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Thursday, March 20, 2003
"HE MURDERS HIS OWN PEOPLE."
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It seems so odd to me that so much is being made of the fact that Saddam Hussein has "gassed his own people". Putting aside that this was long before the first Gulf War, what about President George W. Bush, who, as Governor of Texas, has overseen the execution of hundreds of Texas citizens? What's the principle here? It's okay to kill people who are in custody and tied to a chair, but not to kill people who are engaged in open rebellion against the government, while they're trying to kill you?
I'm no fan of Saddam, but this particular justification, which is cited so often makes no sense to me as a way of distinguishing between the unelected regimes in Iraq and the U.S.
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