Why Don't Protestors Ask for Saddam to Step Down?

[DaShi]

Seems to me that they really dropped the ball on this one. They spent all their effort protesting for the US to not go to war, and look where it got them. Bush didn't care. Bush didn't listen. Was anyone so naive to think that he would?

So why not protest against Saddam? Show him that you're not happy with his policies. Tell him that you want him to step down. If anything the protests against America only exacerabeted the cause for war. They made Saddam feel confident that he could drive a wedge through the West. They made him scoff at inspectors and feel unthreaten by America as he thought that he had the international community on his side.

What were the protestors really thinking?

[Arrian]

Probably because they are aware that Saddam is a dictator who will not listen to them.

I think they might have been hoping that democratic leaders would listen, if only to save their asses in the next election.

-Arrian

[Eli]

Because Saddam is a victim of Western Imperialism/Agression/Colonialism, that gives him the excuse to do everything he wants.

[GePap]

Let me think..they don't want war?

So, because Bush doesn't care, they failed, so instead, try should protest the actions of a man who has even less reason to care..and hence fail?

You know, in theory, Bush should care, as he is the democratically elected leader of a country, as opposed to the dictator, who has very little reason to care about protests aginst him taking place thousands of miles away.

[Midshipman]

I always love reading about protests.

"We're going to stage a walkout on classes"

Yeah, what a sacrifice for you.

"We're going to block traffic in front of military bases."

Ok, so it only bothers the people back home.

"We're going to desecrate the American flag."

Your choice. However, there is that Mastercard ripoff that goes something like this:

American Flag : $25
Lighter: $2
Setting yourself on fire because you are a terrorist jerk: Priceless.

With pictures.

Protestors just manage to amuse me.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Midshipman
American Flag : $25
Lighter: $2
Setting yourself on fire because you are a terrorist jerk: Priceless.

Are you calling the monks who commited public suicide during vietnam "terrorist jerks"? Or is it trying to say protesters somehow manage to set themselves on fire. Eitherway, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say.

[Urban Ranger]

Hussein should issue an ultimatum to GWB. Demand for his exile. That will be something.

[SlowwHand]

The monk that set himself on fire in protest was stupid.
Talk about "cutting off one's nose to spite the face".

[Zkribbler]

Yeah, maybe we can get both Bush and Hussein to go into exile. That would be a win-win solution.

Midshipman, your assumption that pacifists are terrorists leaves something to be desire.

BTW: as a person who is anti-war, I fully endorse the exile of Hussein as the best way to avoid this conflict.

[GePap]

The US will still have to move into Iraq after saddam leaves to "disarm it"

Also, does anyone realize that if Saddam and his boys leave, that still leaves the baathist party in power in Baghdad? I mean, what, Saddam leaves and magically, all is fixed? I mena, besides the bloodbath that mgiht incur as different groups try to gain total control in his wake....

[Shi Huangdi]

Well why don't the protestors in Iraq then call for Hussein to step down? Oh wait....

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Well why don't the protestors in Iraq then call for Hussein to step down? Oh wait....

Exactly.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Hussein should issue an ultimatum to GWB. Demand for his exile. That will be something.

He did so.
But you know how Bush is a warlike, stubborn dictator. He'll never step back

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Well why don't the protestors in Iraq then call for Hussein to step down?

I would prefer him to commit suicide.

[Spiffor]

Dashi :
I didn't attend anti-war protests, but from the reports I've seen or heard, you could see "No to war - no to Saddam" signs and such.
However, it is pure form : as already said, protestors have a hope Bush (or their own countries) will listen. They don't hope Saddam will change anything for the sake of the protests.