Let's just Assume bin Laden was the Mastermind and not KSM...
How many Deaths would bin Laden be Responsible for as Compared to say...
Saddam.
And again, this is Assuming that bin Laden, not KSM, who was Assisted in his First Attempt at taking down the Towers in 1993 by an Iraq Agent by the name of Ramzi Yousef, was Responsible for 9/11.
I Think it goes without Debate... Saddam used WMDs to Kill at least Tens of Thousands...
He was a Brutal Dictator and Murdered Scores of his own People...
So, Ultimately... My Question is this.
Take yourself as an American out of the Equation and look at it from the Worldview...
Who was Worse, bin Laden or Saddam?
peace...
The "Who Was Worse" game is a slippery slope. It is a comparison of apples and little green men from Mars.
Trying to ask Americans to "care" but pretend they don't is schizophrenic.
It also seems clear that you are asking theses Americans to whipe the slate clean when it comes to the history of Iraq and the role the Kurds played in Iraq over the decades.
A case could easily be made that the Kurds were separatist and Saddams actions were just as legitimate as the North's role in our own civil war in which there was 10-50 times the butchery against OUR own people.
OK..he gassed a few thousand Kurds. Who set him up with those weapons and their helicopter delivery systems? We did. Becktel did. Who represented Bektel? Rumsfeld did.
Are you going to ignore the Iraq/Iran war in this fantasy boogyman "what if" charade?
How many Iraqis died in the war with Iran? How many Iranians? Why did we support THAT? Because before THAT war we(our very own CIA) undermined a legitimate election in Iran and installed the "Shaw"? Then the predictable revolution in Iran had the unintended consequence of getting our embassy over run and hostages taken. THEN the even further unintended consequence was the Ayatollas taking charge and Suddam felt threatened as he was secular..blah..blah...blah. and WE still had a sore dick about the hostages which we in fact essentially set up the conditions that led to that situation.
Slippery slope...Fantasy boogymen... American responsibility and then the immediate denial of it.
This OP has no foundation in reality or history.
bottom line...WE ARE AMERICANS!!! We have had dogs in these fights all along. We are just as responsible for Suddam Hussein as anyone. Crying about how many HE killed is about as disingenuous as one can possibly get.
If we had left Suddam alone and just made up with him and got him to stop ******* with his neighbors and Israel I believe the mid East would probably be no worse off than it is now. In fact he hated Al Queda and could have helped destroy them. That is a bit of speculation but not as crazy as you asking AMERICANS to pretend they are not.
Here is one for ya Sparky.. What do you think the price of gas would be now if there was no Americans at war in that region for the last 20 years?
What if we just concentrated on putting out fires rather than dousing all of them with gasoline?
I don't think you really give a crap about the interests of average Americans. You don't even want us to believe we ARE Americans..
Just sayin..