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Davin L. — (archived)

"Untrue. The most detailed analysis I have seen can be found here. This is where I got my numbers, and I stand by them."

Okay, I'm glad you stand by your numbers. I'll stand by mine.


Saddam was bad.
But not bad enough yet to kill us.
Leave him alone. Things can only get better.


Which is not my argument- but at least you don't explicitly say it is... Which is a step up from your last post. Kudos to you, Tom!

" like the first one, myself. There are two fewer tyrannies on Earth, and more are tottering. If that makes me a troglodyte, unworthy to hold my head up in a roomfull of reasonable people trying to figure out if someone is a tyrant or not, so be it. "

I find it quite interesting Tom, that you sit in your rich, fat, safe and educated environment crowing the goodness of other people in other lands dying for your principles. Thats quite a luxury. That others can die by the droves so that you can 'hold your head up'. I frankly don't count te pitch-and-yaw of your head as worth the cost.

And nobody is contesting the badness of tyranny. What I am contesting is
1) Its arguable that we have the moral right to make war on a people because their leader is unjust and/or illegitamate
2) 1 is a proxy, a red herring argument to cover for the failed and unjustifiable argument that: we did what we did in self defense.

But, at least Tom Brosz can hold his head up, which is oh so worth the body count!

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