Letters to the Editor
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@shooter242
This comment is directed to Shooter242:
It seems to me, from reading your various comments to Glenn’s post of yesterday, that you are a neocon, nothing more, nothing less. Your world view is one where the U.S. is required to take out dictatorships, especially when the dictator’s territory sits on a “sea of oil.”
There’s no doubt that Saddam was a terrible dictator. Is he any worse than Somoza or Kaddafi, or half-a-dozen other terrible dictators of the last 40 years? Iraq has been a ‘broken’ nation since 1923 or so, or at least one that was kobbled together by fiat and not by the natural choice of its ‘citizens.’ The real issue is the “sea of oil” that Iraq sits upon: America could not resist invading Iraq because of its oil.
Now we have a real mess on our hands, courtesy of the neocons, for which there is no easy way out. We definitely do not want any neocons, including John McBush (McCain) in the White House next year.
As for the “sea of oil,” what use will it be if we are drowning in tens of feet of water from global warming? It’s well past time to develop alternative sources of energy, including solar and wind energy, on a massive scale.