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Originally posted by bilmore
What if the answer is, yes? Do they come back to life?
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If the answer is yes, maybe the conversation turns, for just a moment, away from the proposition, Saddam Hussein Was A Very Bad Man. We all agree about that, and yet some conservatives seem to think that repeating it over and over again is a useful for substitute for, e.g., trying to figure out what can be salvaged in Iraq or what we could do for Zimbabwe, or Darfur, or Sierra Leone. I mean, no shit that Hussein killed a lot of Kurds.
eta: My other point, of course, was that Hussein's atrocities against Kurds in the late 1980's don't have much of anything to do with the containment policy that DK and I were discussing, since not only were we not containing Hussein before he invaded Kuwait, we were supporting him as a counterweight to Iran.
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein in happier times
