Adolf Hussein Must Go

I was just in a discussion about the Iraq War where someone said it was America's duty to stand up and remove Saddam Hussein from power because he was a terrible dictator who killed innocent people.

Then he used that tried and true catch-all rhetorical question: What if we hadn't stood up to Hitler or Pol Pot?

Comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler is like comparing Manuel Noriega to Stalin. I'm tired of these historical revisionists either ignoring the fact that the American public was tricked into invading Iraq because of their (imaginary) ties to Al Qaeda, or changing the reasons we deployed into some grand exercise in liberating a people from an evil despot.

He was an evil dictator, no question. And he used chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iranians. But that wasn't a good enough reason to invade, overthrow, and occupy.

And to answer the rhetorical question: We didn't. How long did Hitler's reign of terror and expansion last before we got involved? And it was Vietnam that drove Pol Pot out of power when they invaded during the Vietnamese-Cambodia War in the late 70's.

Not a very funny blog post, but I hope some people consider it over the next two months, when we hear this same rhetoric from the "Support Our Troops" thugs and "Nobama" hooligans.

To make it up to you, here's a rhetorical question that is funny:

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?