Letters to the Editor
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Shall we compare dictators, shooter?
Saddam Hussein. At the beginning of the current "Bush's War" as frontline called it, he was accused of killing 100,000 people, keeping ten thousand political prisoners, torture and 'rape rooms'. Of course, as the war dragged on, perhaps anticipating future Iraqi casualties, the Bush people quickly escalated the number he was supposed to have killed, until now they've been throwing around the figure 300,000 for several years.
George W. Bush. Regardless of what he is in the United States, he is a dictator, and a foreign one, in Iraq at this moment. They have no choice about him, and he rules by sheer military might there. He is, to them, an occupier and an illegitimate tyrant. Number of extra deaths due to the war over baseline - between 547,000 and 750,000. Bush is keeping 14,000 prisoners in Iraq (another 13,000 in Afghanistan) and estimates of the number in the last 5 years of those prisoners subjected to the torture and inhumane conditions, portrayed so vividly during the Abu Ghraib revelations, run to 15,000. Gang rape is a frequently used device of the Iraqi "troops" set up by the U.S., and has also been alleged of some U.S. troops, particularly in the confines of the military prisons. At his wildest moments of bullshit, Ahmed Chalabi accused Saddam Hussein of creating a diaspora of 1,000,000 people. Your guy has created 2 million external refugees and 2 million internal, plus most of Chalabi's supposed diaspora remains diaspora.
All in all, then shooter, I'd say the dictator you and your kind back in Iraq has been a worse monster than the one he deposed. Your man is crueler, more inhumane, killed more people, and has delivered, as others have pointed out, no social services, no electricity, no gas, no nothing. Back your monster, pal. If you want to say we are advocating a dictator, fine. But let's be honest. The dictator you are accusing us of backing did far less damage than the one you fervently support. The one you accuse us of backing, hung for his crimes. Would you support trying and punishing your monster with the same fervor?