Via AoSHQ via Red State, from Newsbusters:
RICE: …And it’s simply ill-informed and ahistorical to suggest that a dictator as brutal as Saddam Hussein would have allowed an Arab uprising in his country.
You’re looking at a dictator in Syria put down an uprising. You’re looking at a dictator in Libya who has tried to put down an uprising. If you want to talk about a humanitarian disaster, why did we go into Libya? Because he was about to mow down his own people. He was going to eliminate his own people.
He was going to commit genocide against his own people. Saddam Hussein committed chemical warfare against his own people. And I’d really like to have an answer from those who say it was a good thing to intervene humanitarian way in Libya, because Gadhafi was killing massive numbers of civilians.
Saddam Hussein put 400,000 people in mass graves. He used chemical weapons against Kurds and Shia. If that wasn’t a humanitarian reason to intervene, quite apart from the security reasons, I really think people have a lot of explaining to do.
Exxactly!
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May 8, 11 at 9:42 am
Next Time, Use FedEx
by Ann Coulter
The one Islamic country that openly cheered our taking out bin Laden is Iraq. According to reports from inside the country, TV stations are treating the raid as a great victory for Iraq — the final battle in a war that was mostly fought by Iraqis on Iraqi soil. They view bin Laden’s killing as their own personal triumph in the war against Islamic terrorism.
Similarly, when there was an explosion of violence throughout the Muslim world in response to some Danish cartoons in 2006, guess which Islamic nation was nothing but placid contentment? Again: our plucky Iraq. (Having U.S. Marines in your midst apparently has some sort of calming influence.)
It’s great that we got bin Laden, but if the last Democratic administration had been doing its job, there would have been no Osama bin Laden and no 9/11 attack to begin with.
Democratic presidents are always too busy feverishly redistributing wealth at home to devote serious attention to our national interests abroad.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43326
May 9, 11 at 4:16 pm
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Sadly, these ideals have been abandoned.
May 9, 11 at 4:54 pm
You left out “Smashing pirate slavers in the mouth with a fistful of cannonballs” which thankfully has not quite been abandoned.
http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/first-terrorist-threat2.htm