I don't ignore Saddam's crimes, but I refuse to measure our behavior by them
The argument that Saddam has killed 7,000, so we are better people because we only kill 6,999 is a child's eye view of ethics.
Each individual has value.
To deny that is to deny our basic philosophy as a nation. To go into another nation with military force and to leave our philosophy at the frontier is a mistake, and not one, I am happy to say from the evidence of their performance, that our soldiers have made.
It's not too much to ask that the Stateside supporters of this war hold their justifications of violent intervention to a similarly high standard.
Regards--
Mary Anne