If your neighbor was beating the crap out of his wife????

Question

and torturing her, what would you do? Would you do whatever it took to stop him?
Then why is it not OK for us to have stopped Sadaam?

Answer 1

GREAT QUESTION!!!!!!
Sadly though, I think a lot of people would do nothing if they heard a woman being abused, and those are the same kind of people who think we should have continued to allow Saddam to get away with torture and murder on his own people.

Answer 2

If my neighbor was doing that to his wife I'd call the police and mace him so he wouldn't hurt her anymore. As far as Sadaam, he is a very sick guy, so were his idiot sons. There shouldn't have been a trial, they should have shot him in the hole where they found him. End of story.

Answer 3

well for one thing its none of our buisness ... and we kill and blow people up just like he did ... we're only nice and sanitary about it. Its not the same thing, in fact though, getting directly involved in a domestic dispute could get them both turning on you lol ... really though saddam was a ruthless bastard to anyone that was against him but so what? Hey, im just saying, but im glad he is gone yes, but that still doesnt quite justify the 40,000+ iraqi civilians we have killed so far and the 3000 or so american civilians we "sacrificed" to justify a bogus war on "terrorism" when in fact it is nothing more than a preplanned setting up of a permanent military base in the middle east. So its fine ok even if it wasnt our buisness really to stick our nose into other peoples buisness to take out saddam. ... but thats not whats going on ... thats not the reason for the iraq war ... neither is weapons of mass destruction, and neither is an imaginary global terrorist network .... theres somthing more ... its the american empire secureing its future is what it is ... we needed a military base in the middle east and there also needs to be one in the pacific to head off the arising threat of china to americas existance ... case in point ... by next year its predicted that china will have ballistic nuclear capability to strike anywhere in the US .... by 2008 its predicted that china will have a fully functional nuclear capable submarine fleet. China also would like to reassimilate taiwan which we are sworn to defend and china has been steadily building up forces around taiwan ... getting the american public behind another arms buildup and justifying getting a military base where we needed it is why 911 happened al quaida is a CIA asset and saddam was slated for regime change years ago when this plan was first adopted by the PNAC and most of the current members of the US administration. So, imo its not about if it was ok ... its about being decieved about what is really going on.

Answer 4

Try this.... it was not in your neighborhood, it was in another country, with other laws and traditions. And yes he was using murder and torture, not to beat his wife but to to keep two feuding parties in check, the shiites and the sunnis, the same ones who now without him are fighting for rule and bombing everyone in the process.
back to your neighborhood, if stopping your neighbor meant that 12,000 of your neighbors would die would you feel the same way, or would let them be. to save one "wife". remember it was another country that did not effect YOU in any way at all. If you still think the same way should we now go stop what is happening in Uganda, how many neighbors are you willing to let die to "fix" that one, are YOU ready to go die. Pack your bags big mouth. Proud American front and center.

Answer 5

Just because one would do whatever it takes to stop a wife beater doesn't mean we had to stop Saddam. You must weigh the risks and benefits in both situations. In the neighbor situation, there is little risk of your personal safety in calling the cops and the benefit is the wife can be spared. This weighs heavily in favor of intervening. However, in Iraq, the risk is getting involved in what we have now and the potential benefit was a thriving democracy. This weighs heavily against intervention. Furthermore, you can't say "hindsight is 20-20...if we knew then what we know now." ...because this fear is what stopped us from attacking Iraq in 1991.

Answer 6

Call 911 and take a camera to record the incident. The victim will have enough evidence to put the bastard in jail.

Answer 7

It is ok to stop him, it is not ok not to try to stop him, because if you see something and do nothing about it, you are just as guilty as the person who has committed the crime.

So, you do whatever necessary to stop whomever is committing the act.

Answer 8

The real answer to your question is the political hatred fueled by teh media which is didviding our country. Now we are going the way of all great superpowers, destroyed from within ourselves.

Answer 9

It is ok that we are stopping Saddam. I think the US should go after Bin Laden with the same force! He is the real terrorist here. We should hunt him down in the same fashion.

Answer 10

if the wife looks pretty then i will help! Saddam isnt Hitler, why go after a dictator when his own children wanted to kill him then we go after them thats so easy even a weak minded women could have figure that out.