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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]How exactly do you propose kicking him out of office?[/i] Exactly as I said. Simply say, "OK, Saddam is no longer in office. Elections will be held." Crush him if he resists. Who needs to kill him? Let him sit in his little bunker and give orders. Who cares? And there's also the idea of simply revoking the executive order that prevents us from shooting him with another executive order. OR, we could have him indicted and brought before a war crimes tribunal for his actions against the Kurds, and when he doesn't show, go in and get him. There are all manner of possibilities. I've personally always liked Clancy's "Ryan Doctrine". It said that if you, as a chief of state, start a war of agression, not only will we destroy your army, you, personally, are now fair game. To demonstrate as he was making this announcement, he had a live satelite feed displayed of a smart bomb blowing up the Ayatolah's resdence. [i]"Rule of Consent" basicly means that the vast numbers of ordinary citizens could overwhelm the military.[/i] And thus it doesn't apply to this situation. The people over there have no weapon better than a pitchfork. This is against chemical and biological weapons. I seriously doubt that that whacko would have any problem with wiping out half his country. [i]Also, it would give those Islamic fundamentalists a whole NEW reason to want to blow us to pieces.[/i] You mean like those in Iran? The ones that want to kill the guy anyway? [i]Has a foreign-enforced, non colony Government ever worked?[/i] West Germany. Japan, IIRC. *reads next post* Oh, well, Rob beat me to that, didn't he? Darn you! [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] [i]Leaving all the rest of the dictators in the world to their own devices because they have no oil deposits.[/i] They haven't started wars of agression against us or our allies. We beat the snot out of their military, and thus effectively own Iraq, and can do whatever we darned well please with it. Please, I really would love to see N. Korea try to invade S. Korea, just so we can have an excuse to oust THAT guy. Minus the loss of life required, of course. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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