Reply #43: I was for toppling Saddam

[paulsbc]

and still think we did a good thing.

now, I think it was for the wrong reasons, and sold to the American public in an over-hyped way, but I'm completely for removing dictatorships around the world that do what Saddam's regime did, and that put people on a course for freedom and representative government.

Many claim it wasn't for us to do, that may be. Many claim that one American kid dying for the Iraqi population is too much. But I disagree.

I believe that America should be "world cop" when it can, and should stamp out evil people, when it can.

I'm glad Clinton went into Bosnia when he did, not because of a any political reasons, but from a purely humanitarian viewpoint. I wish the US would have made a stronger showing in Liberia. I wish the US would have intervened in the Congo. I wish the US would pull its troops out of regions that they are not needed, and deploy them to regions where they can do the most good, or bring them home.

I wish Bush I would have gone into Baghdad when he could have, it would have prevented many a Iraqi slaughter.

This view is probably the equivalent of a ban :) But so be it, I'll stand up for the poor, the oppressed, and for removing ruthless dictators and leaders wherever they may be found, with the next big removal happening in 2004 when we elect a Democrat to the White House. I just hope the person we put in their remembers the liberal ideals of freedom, of democracy, and of the US having the capability to do good for the world, and not just for Halliburon...