On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Your whole post is based on the feeling that we're gonna do what they did to us.
There were at least three points made in my post: * The treatment of Saddam seems well within the rules laid down by the Geneva conventions. * On the other hand, he and his government routinely violated the Geneva conventions and encouraged others to do so. * The US and the UK should step back and let Iraqis decide what to do with Saddam. Nowhere did I advocate gassing villages, rape, murder, torture, invasion of neighboring countries for all that good loot, setting off explosives in crowds, nor even the beatings handed out to captured British pilots.
In doing so you have manifested what has been written here about "gasing into the abyss" and so on.
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