The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Not to put words in MBC's mouth, I think one could make the case that We (AKA the US Government) is at least partially responsible for the the kind of anarchy and chaos that has allowed the increased killing of innocents.

Saddam may have been an evil dictator who killed innocent people, but I imagine at least there one had some sort rules one could live by to prevent yourself from being a victim (i.e. shut up and join the Bath party). Yeah that flys in the face of our democratic dream, but I think you yourself are willing to trade some of your civil liberties for security. I suspect some Iraqies might feel the same way and see democracy as a system by which innocents are more randomly killed than by the other system.

I'm clueless as to the actual numbers, and not really interested in finding them out, but that's how I understand MBC's argument.

Yep, that is pretty much my argument in a nutshell.