That's a incredibly disgusting argument, but unfortunately not uncommon at all in today's left. I'd like to see you find a single Iraqi who didn't profit in some way from Saddam say: "Yes, I wish Saddam was in power -- that I was afraid to speak freely in the open, and the professional rapists were still being paid, etc. -- I want all that back. I wish I didn't have the chance to freely elect a representative government in two days. The Euro and American leftist are correct, Saddam should be in power."

[Edit: Also, the Baath regime killed hundreds of thousands - and counting (still uncovering mass graves also). If you want you can site some guesstimate of the Iraqi civilian death toll, but the reality is no where near hundreds of thousands.]

On capitalism. If it weren't for capitalism, you would not be communicating right now on the internet. You would not have the medicines and technologies which have saved millions, or many other things most of us take for granted. Capitalism = Growth, Freedoms, progress. Socialism = Stagnation, despotism. Again and again history demonstrates this, yet modern leftist continue to cling to their utopian ideals despite (sometimes in spite of) reality.

(Don't take this as a flame, I'm simply expressing my contrary opinion.)

To him, comparitivly $1 billion is just our ?3 a month that common plebs might give. He is still a selfish arse.

I guess you're refering to when I refer to the left. Yes, obviously that in itself is a generalization, but that doesn't mean it's not true. A generalization is not false simply by virtue of being a generalization. They can be unfair, and you apparently think this is such a case, but it can also equally be accurate. If I'm being unfair tell me how.