-- James A. Donald:
You said: : : "I do care that the US fails to adhere to : : international law." implying that US treatment of Saddam violated international law.
You also said; : : "knocking over a crippled tyrant." implying oh dear, that terrible big bully USA is kicking a poor little cripple in his poor little wheelchair, think of the poor little Saddam falling out of his wheelchair.
These images are not appropriate to someone who claims to believe what you just claimed to believe, and you were not saying what you claimed you were saying.
Jamie Lawrence
James, you are simply full of shit. I don't believe you're incapable of seeing the difference between calling Saddam a crippled tyrant and "support[ing] Saddam". I do believe you're willfully attempting to twist other people's words
You were already in a frenzy of rage before I accused you of weeping big salt tears for poor little victimized Saddam. My position on the Vietnam and Iraq wars is the same as that as the mainstream left of the Democratic party (or at least the same as the position they will be holding once the primaries are over), yet you reacted as if I had called for everyone like you to be gassed. The position you purport to hold is almost indistinguishable from my own and that of the Democrat party mainstream -- but that is not the position implied by your arguments, nor does it correspond to the emotions you express. Sometimes the position nominally taken by leading Democrats fail to correspond to the arguments and emotions they express also -- Dean has caught some flack for that -- but the discrepancy in your case has is far more visible than that of Dean, You will not catch Dean weeping big salt tears for Saddam, nor see him deeply shocked by the prospect that Saddam will be tried by his victims. and Dean has a legitimate excuse for his comparativelyt mild hypocrisy -- he is upset about the the impact of the coming execution of Saddam on his election campaign, not about the impact on the prospects for a world of slavery and fear. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kTerUTT9UTTp482foMMnkDUC/YqrMZtRcywtamEc 45Wu1KrbIBAMYIiC58VZi7gmTa4oJ9gneUTWvxK5e