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Originally Posted by foreverwar
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If I read that rightly, no matter what anyone says, their "secret" reason for marching against the war was to keep Saddam in power? Wow!!!!
So if anyone marches against the Labour party, they must secretly be Tory supporters? That's logic chain is going to hack a lot of people off! 
And all those protesters against the new Polaris base in Scotland, just want Communist USSR to invade us - no, hold on, that can't be right? 
Just because you are against one thing, does not mean you are for another - I am against Capital Punishment, but I am not for paedophiliac murderers, rapists, and crimes against the state.
Simplistic logic will get you tied in knots if you are not careful. |
You're twisting what I say... The war, as executed, is the only action that would have/did result in Saddam being removed. If you are against the war for whatever reason (there are many to choose from i.e., too expensive, noone has the right to interupt soverign nations behavior, one murder is not acceptable for another, etc), then it would still end up in the result, Saddam being in power, whether you tacitly wanted it or not.
Twisting your voting analogy back into shape... Its like tactical voting. If you vote for LD instead of Labour to remove Labour from government, it doesn't mean you support the Tories, however, it means you are willing to have them in power if the tactical voting works. You support an action that results in Tory leadership (lesser of two evils). If it works, then you are also still to blame for putting the Tories in power, regardless whether you support them or not.
Does that make any more sense?
In a nutshell, it doesn't matter if war protesters like/wanted Saddam in power or not. Their actions, if successful, would have ensured it.
I personally don't like war. However, I don't like Saddam more. Conservative estimate, 95% chance it was going to get messed up as regime change is almost impossible to execute properly, especially in the complex Middle East. War, although horrible, distasteful, is the lesser of two evils.