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This nutcase is trouble waiting to happen.

The objective of our policy seems to be to take out his ability to attack us before he actually does so. The problem with that, as Israel has found, is that it is hard to justify such measures to many people who don't see the big picture.

I remember the grief Israel got when they took out Saddam's nuclear reactors. Yet looking back, one can make an excellent case that it probably save millions of lives by throwing Iraq's nuclear program years behind.

...For years, Saddam ruthlessly milked the suffering of the Iraqi people to erode the global determination on maintaining the U.N. sanctions. Now he has shifted gears to meet a different objective: to keep those same long-suffering Iraqis from rebelling against him. So the taps have opened: more of the money from his legal oil sales and illicit oil smuggling, once reserved for the purpose of bribing regime loyalists, is now being spread around to the populace.

More on Saddam's birthday party, and what it cost, can be found here and here.

Every simpering leftist jackass that brings up the poor, starving children of Iraq and blames them on the U.S., deserves to be beaten into insensibility by my favorite blunt instrument, a 200-pound sturgeon*, dead for three weeks.

*The weight varies. It's not easy to find a dead fish that weighs exactly 200 lbs.

My weapons runners, preparing yet another shipment for me. Given the number of idiots I have to deal with, I go through a lot of these babies.