I wouldn't take the chance

There are so many things wrong with that analogy; I don't know where to begin.
First of all, has your neighbor shot other neighbors or thrown grenades at you or your neighbors? If so, he has been warned by the police and the police may have arrested him and put him in jail. If he didn't go to jail, he's on probation in which he's not allowed to own or possess any of these weapons. That's part of his probation agreement. The police may check on this, but if they feel he is hiding weapons, they will do a full search. Now if they still have conclusive evidence that he still has these weapons, he will be arrested and prosecuted.

Sadam is a threat, not only to his neighbors, but the whole world. He's proven he can't handle the power of having "big toys" and playing nice. He wants revenge on the US because we are a primary UN power. If something major happens in the world, we are the big brother that has to slap the wrist and tell them that's wrong. This is only done when needed to prevent things like Hitler. He started with overtaking one country and slowly worked his way across Europe. What would have happened if we would have entered WW2 earlier and prevented him from doing this? More importantly, what would have happened if we didn't enter WW2 at all?? Sadam has shown similarities to Hitler. Instead of waiting, we are taking care of the problem now.

Nah, I don't think that ananlogy sums things up at all. There are alot of variables that aren't mentioned in your analogy. I'd think of it more like this. A cop has a history of busting a certain criminal. He's watched the criminal kill people and threaten people. The cop has visited this guy a number of times and asked him to give up his weapons and stop killing people. Each time the criminal tells him he dosn't have any weapons so get out of his house. The cop lets him slide, but is somewhat suspicious. The cop has even served the criminal with several warrants and had his house searched, but couldn't find any weapons. But for some reason, the criminal kept killing people. One day after the cop has heard about this criminal threatening more people, he comes to the guys house. This time, the criminal isn't so inviting and tells the cop to leave. The cop refuses to leave and, as he holds his weapon, tells the criminal to come out peacefully and give up his weapons. But the criminal keeps telling the cop to leave and that he dosn't have any weapons. So this time the cop yells at him to come out and give up his weapons. So the criminal steps outside almost challenging the cop. What's the cop supposed to do? He draws his weapon and aims it at the criminals head.

Now I think that is more accurate. What makes things more justified is the fact that Iraqi troops are killing our men and women. That would be like a bunch of this "criminals" buddies coming out of the house guns blazing.

Not only are they killing US troops execution style, they're killing thier own people for waving at the troops.

hahaha.. does he have people on his property that he abuses, torments, and strikes fear into? :chuckles:

this thread is getting funnier by the moment

Let's see what you got bro!

your analogy makes some sense..........however its missing a critical detail.

how about before you and your lone willing neighbor infiltrate his house and hold him at gunpoint you get the ENTIRE neighborhood together and demand he give up all his weapons, then, after he's given a chance all of you speculate that perhaps he's holding some back, so you decide to search his house, never the entire house, just one room one day, then maybe a closet a few days later, and you let him know where and when you're going to search.........or at the least walk very very slowly. you've already mentioned the neighbor is threatening........would you say that you trust both his will and your searches?

also you might want to assume that he abuses his family to get them to go along with his wishes, and that you feel if you did shoot him none of them would retaliate or prosecute you........except for one of his kids perhaps.......who he feeds well, never raises a hand to, and trusts with his intimate details and protection. do you trust the kid too?

Has he killed people? Funded the killing of people? Fundamental things missing from your analogy.

your neighbor sounds like a prick :fawk: