In a message dated 2/17/03 8:27:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Now, which "international community" are you referring to?

The so called "international community" gets a lot of favorable press but
what is it? Is it the UN?  That's an organization that is far far removed
from the concept of democracy.  Is it a general consensus of opinion?
Whatever happened to the silly notion of national sovereignty?  A simple
concept of letting a nation run it's own affairs works fine and is quite
respectable when the nation's people control their own government.

With Saddam, he is not subject to elections or anything else.  He is a
typical despotic dictator.  What should happen to despotic dictators (given
that there is a way to make something happen)?  A trial?  A firing squad?  A
retirement villa?  Which other despotic dictators should we also somehow
punish?  And while we are at it, who gets to define who is a despotic
dictator and who isn't?  Should we also somehow punish properly elected
government officials who do horrible things?  What if the people of a country
do NOT want their dictator punshed?  That would be the case in Chile with
Pinochet.  Saddam is a monster and it would be good to have him out of power.
 Setting up some sort of arbitrary court, trial, etc. though is full of
dangerous potential precendents.

Wayne

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