can we beat the man?

[Sasquatch]

The best sollution for Iraq would have been if the civiles raised against Saddam. The US could have sent some letters to him asking him to leave hes possition, the entire would could have. They should have sent support to the civiles telling them to raise against him. They should have had sent men to the Iraqi-reveloution leaders. They should have held a revolution.

Again--it's a nice idea, but it just won't work.

Send letters to Saddam asking him to leave? Yeah. That's a good one.

Iraq has been under UN embargos and trade restrictions (or was supposed to be, if certain parties--i.e. France, Germany, etc.--weren't dealing under the table) for decades, and they didn't do anything but breed more animosity towards the Western world.

By the way--there was a revolution against Saddam, shortly following the Persian Gulf war. By both the Kurds and the Shi'ites, I believe. It was brutally crushed, and hundreds of thousands were slaughtered. What are we gonna do, write letters of encouragement to the next generation to tell them Saddam won't have them mowed down in cold blood like he did their parents?

"Dear Saddam.
I would be really happy if you stopped using nerve gas and blistering agents on your own people. It would be really nice of you to stop letting women be raped by dozens of your soldiers while thier husbands look on, and to shut down the vats of acid and chipper-shredder machines that you put innocent civilians through. All of this would make me very happy. Just wanted you to know.
Love, America."

Version 2:

"Hey Saddam. We're tired of your , and we ain't gonna put up with it anymore. Get your ass out of there and stay out, or we're gonna bomb the hell out of you. You got a week. See you Thursday.
-America"

If you control all of the guns, you control everybody.

That's right, and that's why the Second Amendment was put in, to make sure that doesn't happen.