Reply #32: No [View All]

[Djinn]

it's always tempting to go the "you have to be mad to do that" theory but you don't you need to have no conscience you need to be power hungry, otherwise everyone who committs a violent act could claim "madness" as an extenuating circumstance. He was vile, evil, murderous and paranoid NOT mad, after all if you run a country where you don't let people vote you kind of have to be brutal - the only country in which "OK I'm not who you voted for but just go along with it would you" has worked is the USA.

by the way for those who think he's mad - do you have to torture and kill close up to be mad? is it just as mad to drop a bomb that boils women and children alive or sucks out all the oxygen in the atmosphere? if we give the bushists the same amount of killing time as Saddam got they'll be WAAAAY ahead of Saddam on the dead Iraqi scoreboard. Is there a certain number of people you have to kill before you're mad?