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I for one would have had a lot more respect for Bush and Blair if they had said they wanted to take down Saddam on human rights grounds. I still wouldn't have supported the war, and I still wouldn't have believed them, but I'd have had a lot mroe respect for them for at least trying to come up with a compelling reason.
Of course if they had tried this tactic then it would beg the question of why Saddam had become so horrible just then, and why we hadn't gone after him all those years ago when all evidence suggests he was worse and we were actually supporting him...
Either way it doesn't matter now. The structure of the power exchange and what we're hearing from Iraq seems to indicate, to me at least, that the human rights of the Iraqi's was the last thing on Bush and Blair's minds.
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