War or Sadaam?

(referred via Bloggedyblog)

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Opposing a War in Iraq is essential because such a war would undoubtedly be detrimental most to the Iraqi people. At the same time, only opposing a war, without anything further, implies that Saddam Hussein should remain in power to perpetuate his well-documented crimes against the Iraqi people and others.

In other words, while decrying what might happen to the Iraqi people during a war, the anti-war movement is forgetting that Iraqi's are suffering and dying at the hands of one of the most brutal dictators the world has seen since World War II.

Anyone who knows anything about Iraq and the Iraqi people knows that they not only want to get rid of Saddam, but they have sacrificed greatly during many failed attempts. In the uprising in 1991, after the Gulf War, civilians in 14 of 18 provinces rose up against Saddam and overthrew his regime in those provinces. If Saddam had not used helicopter gunships and tanks (with U.S. and Allied knowledge if not consent) to strafe and shell civilians, they would have marched on Baghdad as well.

It is immoral to ignore Saddam's crimes and it violates every humanitarian principle in Islamic jurisprudence, Christian theology and international law to accept or condone Saddam's crimes against the Muslim and Christian populations in Iraq.

The alternatives are not just "War" or "Keep Saddam". There are other alternatives.

(from here)