OT: Saddam Hussain

[Nem]

i have to be carefull here coz people will think i am with sadam,,,..but i do know personaly one of his lawyers from the old days 20 years ago,,,,he never agreed with sadams regime,,,,but he strongly said that the country was a safer place when he was in power and people knew where they were with him,,

In the same way the Jews knew where they were with Hitler.  In the same way that anyone who might have potentially been a threat to Pol Pot in Cambodia knew where they were.  The same way the Muslims in the former Yugoslavia were clear where they stood with Milošević.

Bet all those people were delighted to know where they stood.

i know, its funny how quickly people forget what he was actually like. He used to put people through meat grinders for his amusement allegedly!!

Like I said earlier, hanging was too easy on him.

[tantrum]

Like I said earlier, hanging was too easy on him.

 

[pokerdave69]

I was gutted he couldnt make my new years eve party but he was hung over from the night before

[Sheriff Fatman]

I was gutted he couldnt make my new years eve party but he was hung over from the night before

OK I'll give you that one as an original to blonde!

I locked the other thread so as to keep all the discussion in one place on this, just in case you were wondering!

[FlyingPig]

No doubt he was an evil person, and should not of been allowed to continue as the president of the country, but was it up to the rest of the world to do this? How would we like to be attacked and invaded because we live under a free state, and our attackers think we should live under say Sharia Law, and then impose this upon us with no chance of change.

He did kill people ie. the Kurds, Iranians and traitors, but they were at war with the Kurds who believe that part of Northern Iraq should be a separate state called Kurdistan (Palestine/Israel all over again). They were also at war with the Iranians with the backing of the west, and as for traitors, we have executed enough of them in the past.

Torturing people is nothing new, do we all really think that Bush and Blair have told their agencies not to torture enemies of the state?

No sooner will the west pull out of Iraq and the civil war (which is already underway and has been for some time) will bring the country into anarchy and chaos, and a free for all country, were the gun will rule.

If elected rulers of countries can be tried for attrocities commited during their reign, what will we do with Mrs Thatcer with the Belgrano incident? We consider it an act of war the Argentinians certainly do not.

If the blueprint has been set, are we going to invade countries such as Pakistan, North Korea, China, Nigeria & Iran? They are a few that are similar, and do not think that they are in no way like Iraq, they are. Some are worse, some not as bad. But have we set the tone for the future? I think not. There was a lot to gain form the invasion and it was not righteous, political or moral; It was indeed oil.