Colombia protesters throw grenades near US Embassy

[taeclee99]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
if i'm not mistaken.... didn't we support iraq when they fought iran??? hmmmmm

Yes we supported Iran back then. So What??? This fact is irrelevant to taday. Well times and circumstances change. The Soviet Union was our ally during WW2 and our enemy afterwards.

 

[pseudobrit]

Originally posted by Kethoticus
Hmmm... well, I got some news for ya. The Baath party comes from a movement called "Pan-Arabism", which is not unlike the master race philosophy perpetrated by Hitler.

Secondly, Saddam Hussein is not militarily powerful like Hitler because the US and UN didn't repeat the same mistakes made by the world in the late 1930s--you know, appeasing him--you know, that thing everyone wants to do now? Can you imagine what would have happened if Hitler got the A-bomb first? Imagine Hussein with one. Where would it go? How would it get there? Hitler would be bold and just launch them. But Hussein would be more insidious and use spies/terrorists to smuggle them in.

Both were/are dictators who have no regard for human life, and who want power. Lots of it. Neither man could/can be reasoned with because he was/is single-mindedly focused on his own self-centered aggrandisement.

There are differences, no question. But Saddam Hussein, to some, is a Hitler-in-the-making.

Saddam Hussein is no Hitler. He's a half-rate, piss-pot dictator of our making.

The reason Hitler became so dangerous was that he was allowed to militarise his nation so quickly. Just the opposite has been happening in Iraq in the past 12 years; it has been systematically disarmed.

Equating a master sociopath like Hitler to Saddam based on how they rose to power is one thing. Equating the two in regards to their influence in the world is a fallacy.