In his intent, and with his reasoning, yes, he was... He had the capability of nuclear weapons...and if you've researched his ideas and his plans, his was to form an Arab Superstate in the Middle East to rise up, take control of its oil, and strangle the west and europe into submission to its anti-zionist and its perversion of Islamic faith that he based his Machiavellian tendencies on... This man was much scarier than Hitler because wars and fights today are fought with much more frightening technology, and the stakes are much higher...
Trust me, he wanted to be...and he was on the CUSP of uniting an ethnicity that has never before shared a common bond nor banded together like what he wanted... JD, you don't wait until it happens to identify and label a threat, then figure out how to get rid of it... You stop it before it starts...
Re: More liberal than Nelson Rockefeller...? Do all or your players throw and bat from the left side?
Does the fact that Saddam "only" murdered a half a million to a million people make him somehow less evil or insane than Hitler or Stalin? Saddam may never make it into the Dictators Hall of Fame but thats like comparing Dave Kingman to Babe Ruth. They both hit a lot of home runs but Kingman fell short of the accepted number of 500 that was considered automatic for sure HOF status and wasn't the complete ballplayer that others in the hall with fewer homers were. That dosen't mean that Kingman, like Saddam didn't do his best to put up the big numbers.
Ouch! Such piffle from a good Christian.... Because I disagree with you and proved you incorrect (I've never called this adminstration Nazis) I'm a pitiful speck...? Interesting Christian right values but the usual, make accusations, proven wrong then attack personally... WWJD? Certainly not this.... but look at the little cartoon he attached to his post... That-I'm guessing-is George W...and he's in a rather "interesting" uniform... No Mr. history, that's actually Herman Goering. Might I suggest a good book on 20th Century history so you can tell pictures of Nazi war criminal from the current president? Instead of a Christian apology for your incorrect accusations, your wrongful assumptions and your personal attacks, as a Christain I forgive you....
Biggles... As a good Christian, yours is not the place to judge, as you've judged... It's also not to call names as you have, and to cast false aspersions as you have, calling YOUR President a drunken fratboy... "For all have fallen short of the Glory of God..." As much as I might have been incorrect about the reference in the caricature you included in your photo, is as much as you ARE incorrect to cast aspersions at someone in the manner in which you have. If you live in a Lexan House, Biggles, please, feel free to discontinue pointing out what sheep we are, as well as demeaning and belittling those that you differ with. You chastise me for a personal attack, then you refer to the President as a drunken fratboy... Where is the difference between those personal attacks? Were you just joking about the President? Do you really think that he's a drunken fratboy? If you do, then I guess I meant what I said about your id winning the battle for your self concious... If you were "just joking"...then I guess I was just joking, too... The ball's in your court now, sir...Please, either show me where you were either wrong for calling the President names and making deurrogatory comments about him, and then hiding behind a shared religion to try to guilt trip me in some way, or show me where your comments are based on PROOF that George W. Bush is still in a fraternity, and he really is currently a drunken fool... Come on Biggles, let's make sure we cover ALL our bases on this one...
yea, it is different - the scopes are nowhere close. Sadaam didn't invade western europe - he invaded a dictatorial regime (while King George I had troops rebuilding the palaces of Kuwaiti dictators - how nice). 30 million didn't lose their lives around the world fighting sadaam. Hell yes, the scope counts - it counts a lot I don't understand your Kingman analogy. Kingman was a mediocre ballplayer - don't know what you are talking about, really.
I think what Bengal B is saying is that Saddam Hussein wanted to be like Hitler and Stalin, or an Arab Hitler. Hussein always had a dream of being a modern-day caliph, uniting the entire Arab Peninsula under his rule and building a huge empire. He also wanted to destroy Israel. I know, I know, what Arab leader doesn't. But he wanted to do so because he figured destroying Israel and reconquering Jerusalem would have made him a larger than life god in Arab history (which it probably would have) and all the bad things he had ever done would be masked by that one "good" thing (don't know about that). We stopped Hussein from taking the first steps toward conquering the Arabian Peninsula in 1991 with the first Gulf War. It took us 12 years to finally finish the job and eliminate the threat altogether. If France and Great Britain had stood up to Hitler on any one of his military moves; on the Rhineland in 1935, on violations of the Treaty of Versailles and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in 1937, on Austria in 1938, Hitler would never have become the terrible force he was. Germany was still very weak militarily at that point. All Great Britain and France had to do was raise their voices a little and probably no blood would have even had to be shed, certainly not the 25 million who would later die to defeat him. Instead, they tried to appease him and be non-confrontational, and the rest is history. If Hussein does not occupy a place in the "Great Evil Leaders Hall of Fame" alongside Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot (which is a difference of opinion as well. I certainly think he merits consideration) it is only because he was never given the chance to show the true depth of his evil depravity (thank God).
