"…and I thought I would see how many of them would be ready to destroy a country because of the decisions of it's leaders."

It would depend on what deeds the decisions led to. I agree in general with all the answers I've read so far. (up to brucie 07 Oct 04 - 11:03 PM)

In terms ot the old West, it's ok to shoot the bad guy who shoots at you, and t's ok to beat the bad guy to the draw and shoot him. In the cases of Saddam, we shot at an unarmed bad guy, and killed some of his family, some of his friends, and some innocent bystanders, and got too many of our posse killed. And that's what we did wrong in Iraq.

If it was ok to punish people or nations for what they could do, or might do, we'd all be dead or in jail.

clint