[Cyrien]

You're right. You don't send your child to prison or kill him if you smell pot. But that is simply because it is pot. If you found the pot you wouldn't send him to prison or kill him either. It is a comparison. Compared. Not equal. I was illustrating the point at no point did I equate the seriousness of finding pot smoke to that of finding WMDs. You wouldn't kill the kid or put him in prison but you wouldn't leave him alone either, and if all you did was say well now we are going to have to search your room and the first time you find his stash... well the next time he just hides it better. And better. And better. You haven't really punished him have you?
Did we at any point punish Saddam and his regime? NO. We punished his people who weren't responsible for it. Finally we have punished him. Did some of his people get hurt? Yes. But how hurt where they without any of our action? At least now they have a chance to turn things around.

[ April 25, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: Cyrien ]