== trivial and stupid == 

 172 your edit summary on Human Rights in Saddam's Iraq was a mindless ad hominem attack.  The original language you were defending was so tame that it was legitimizing murder and torture as just another legimate means of exercising government control and power, like taxation.  You are reinforcing your reputation as an apologist for repressive regimes.  You don't recognize a reductio ad absurdem argument when you see it, it was obvious from the formulation you called trivial and stupid, that torturing soccer players did not fall within maintaining Bath party control, so that the language you were defending did not begin to cover this monstrousity of a regime.  Apparently, I made the point too subtlely for you, so I have implemented language that better encompasses this regime's behavior.