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Originally Posted by Jelster
We end up as much as a dictatorship as those we rise up against..
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I thought we were there already
My point is that it wasn't our place to "rise up against" Saddam, or anywhere else.
Their country, their laws, their problem to solve by themselves.
Look at this countries history on human rights - try being a woman at the turn of last century, or black or irish at the middle of it, or gay at the end of it.
We managed to get through those things, and sort it out, why should we force it on other countries.
Its like when we are teenagers and we get told that we should work hard at school and that those years "are the best of our lives" - how many here wish they could go back to those days with what they know now, and how much better it would be. However, everyone of us would remember how we didn't listen, and when you try and tell a kid that now, just like you then the dont listen or understand.
Our way of life isnt that spectacular - old people die because they cant afford to heat their houses, people sleep on the streets, muggers and rapists exsist and get away with it.
Lets clean our own house first before sweeping out others