Saddam Wasn't A Bad Man

Ann Clwyd, a Labour MP, has come out with a scathing smack down of the "Where's the WMD?" crowd. Why do they continue to ignore the mounting evidence of the base evilness of Saddam's regime? Why do they continue to ignore what is shaping up to be the worst human rights catastrophe since Cambodia?

Are they so blinded by their hatred of George W. Bush as to be willing to ignore 800,000 + dead?

I said before that even if there is never any evidence of WMDs in Iraq, the human rights violations would be sufficient reason for war.

I find it incredulous that anyone could read a report like Mrs. Clwyd's and dismiss it as unimportant.

This is not a report that can justify a "yeah, but..." This is reality. This is the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians we were warned about. Does the fact that Saddam killed them make their deaths any less significant?

I don't think so. And I can't believe that anyone who professes to "value human life" or "human rights" could ever blow off something like this.

800,000 dead.

You want to hold a Congressional inquiry into the run up to the war?

Ask why we didn't go in sooner. Ask why we needlessly let people die in these Nazistic concentration camps. Ask why the "human rights champions" in Congress weren't championing human rights. Ask how we could ignore this for 12 years.

Saddam wasn't a bad man. He didn't have any WMDs to justify his removal. </sarcasm>

Just ask the 800,000 dead.