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Originally Posted by Xaccers
So if the majority of nations said keeping a dictator in power even though he starved his people, killed them on a whim, allowed his forces to rape and mutilate, that is the "right thing"
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Whether it is or not is besides the point. What I've been trying to do this afternoon is to take you to task over a couple of instances when you have wilfully misrepresented the standpoint of other contributors, preferring to set up a straw man - a mere distortion of their view - and to ridicule that, rather than to engage with what they are actually saying.
I have repeatedly refused to be drawn into the ins and outs of the Iraq question today and I'm not going to change my mind now (my son is hiding under the duvet upstairs waiting for me to 'find' him and put him to bed). I simply suggest that your discussion with those who are prepared to engage with the issue would proceed more smoothly if you would address the points they are actually making rather than playing to the gallery.