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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
Democratic countries generally don't produce terrorism. Make Iraq democratic, and it stabilizes the Mideast. That's the theory. However, it doesn't happen overnight.
GWB said Saddam had terrorist ties.
Saddam himself was a terrorist. He ruled his own country with fear, intimidation, and outright brutality. He used chemical weapons against civilians in Halabja in 1988.
An Iraqi general, Georges Sada, said that WMD were shipped to Syria.
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Saddam ruled his country the same way the Gov. rules ours. With a strong Fist keep people in fear
The people who have the effrontery to rule us, who call themselves our government, understand this basic fact of human nature. They exploit it, and they cultivate it. Whether they compose a warfare state or a welfare state, they depend on it to secure popular submission, compliance with official dictates, and, on some occasions, affirmative cooperation with the state's enterprises and adventures. Without popular fear, no government could endure more than twenty-four hours. David Hume taught that all government rests on public opinion, but that opinion, I maintain, is not the bedrock of government. Public opinion itself rests on something deeper: fear