Hi Jimbo
Currently, the US kills people for "threats" that include traffic jams. If your car stops running at the wrong intersection in Bagdad, your family can be machine gunned for "threatening" US military personnel, since they could be ambushed if they slowed their vehicles, thus the policy. This is similar to Saddam's Iraq, which Reagan took off the list of countries supporting terrorism so that we could spend taxpayer funds to provide military aid including chemical weapons and helicopters outfitted to use them, while here in the US we were busy cutting socialist programs like education, slashing taxes for the rich, and eliminating oversight of Wall Street. In Saddam's Iraq, threats were treated similarly.
Saddam liked to use "big sticks" to scare potential threats as well: like boiling people who were hostile to his rule, and like you: he had no problems blinding people. Perhaps you would have been happier living under Saddam, where "socialists" and other "threats" were treated more in ways you prefer?
Now, things have really changed in Iraq though. Instead of being boiled killed for opposing Saddam's violent tyranny, one's entire family can often be killed for defending one's homeland as a "terrorist insurgent" by foreign occupiers.
