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Originally posted by bilmore
The fact that anyone could not latch onto it with a degree of fervor is what's so dismaying to me. We're debating the efficiencies of stopping the Holocaust. That's the philosophy that kept us from Rwanda, to our eternal dishonor. To ignore such a need is, to me, antithetical to one's own humanity, and I cannot make myself believe that the majority, as you term them, doesn't share that basic value. Thus, to me, it has to be a wilfull decision to ignore the slaughter. And the only motive I can see is the political one.
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I respect your position on this, because you were saying this sort of thing long before people were questioning the other reasons for the invasion. But I read the paragraph above and I think that it could easily have been written in '92, after Bush* didn't support the Shi'ites after calling for them to rise up. Did you decry Bush's political motives back then when Saddam mowed them down? Or did you excuse it as being based in other policy objectives abroad and here at home?
I've got to feel that a not insubstantial portion of the Sh'ites mentioned in that article died believing that we would help them in that uprising. George Clooney told me that in a movie I saw once.
* the first one, Hank.
