I thought I've heard it all. But this latest one is really perplexing. More Muslims will die if Saddam is not stopped. I'm all for choosing the better options, the lesser of two evils, minimum damage, optimum choice, sensible option and whatever you want to call it. However, to justify dropping tonnes of concrete blocks on innocent people is just...Not Right. BTW, I did say concrete blocks and I meant it. Dropping concrete blocks on you hurts especially if it is dropped from tens of thousands of feets above (heroes fly high to avoid anti aircraft missiles) and it will hit civillians. So imagine you are walking down the street and 1.8 tonnes of solid concrete drops on you, 1 metre from you or even 10 metres from you. Not pleasant heh... Now, you are not supposed to be walking on the street when some flying-high heroes are playing their war-games on the sky above you. So imagine, you are taking shelter in your house and 1.8 tonnes of solid concrete drops on your house and then on you. Still not pleasant heh.... Now realise that it is not a block of concrete but a devastating bomb that upon hitting it's target will explode and blow everything to smithereens.... very unpleasant indeed.... anyway, I digressed.



Since Saddam has killed 1.7M (that's 1,700,000) people over 24 years in power, he's averaged just under 71,000 lives a year. Between 1979 and the Gulf War, which is nearly 12 years, Saddam was America's best friend. That's 71000 times 12 lives (850,000) lives and what was America doing then? (I'm not going into the fact that Saddam had been more potent in chalking up the numbers before the Gulf War thus the average figure above is highly underestimated). Today, there's this concern and care for lives by Uncle Sam and there's no other agenda. Yeah, right.



"Yes I do not want 10,000 Iraqis to die but given a choice of ten (thousand) now to a hundred (thousand) that we would save in the future, the war is a better choice" he [president of the Council of American Muslims For Understanding (CAMU)] reasoned. Tell us the same thing when you and your family are part of the 10,000; and I highly suspect your figures. BTW, the number of people killed in Iraq after the Gulf War is extremely high and that's the result of the sanction. I hope you have not included that number in the 1.7M.



Stop judging people for things they haven't committed lest you'll be judged the same way. Don't let the world loses its sanity.