was just about to put a thread up to wish everyone a happy and peacefull new year but dont think it will be now so i wont bother .........this world sucks man .
Ask the police if they can spare you a chemical/radiation attack suit - or exactly where you can get one from the government. Tell them you feel saddams death will cause more shit than it was worth and ask if they can tell you where the government is providing such protection - since its their war and your life - tell em they got 17.000 of em and you only need 3 or 4 otherwise spend about 800 quid on one
Good, the first dictator I've seen get his comeupance, don't get all this bleedin heart nonsense about poor little man beaten up by america.
I think his execution is a mistake. The legality of it is also questionable, as Britain, a country opposed to the death penalty, helped bring it about through an illegal war. All this tends to weaken international law, and to make it appear that America and it's allies can do whatever they want without regard to international conventions. Further - It is almost certain that an increase in violence in Iraq and perhaps elsewhere too will be the result. The rationale is that Saddam was a criminal responsible for many deaths. The same can be said of both Blair and Bush. I wonder how many will die as a result of this execution?
Saddam should never have been tried in an Iraqi court, his crimes were internation and so the court should have been too. His own people are split into 2 groups, there's the anti-Saddamists and his supporters. Neither of these groups would be capable of making an impartial judgement. I am no way a supporter of Saddam, nor his crimes, but 2 wrongs do not make a right and I do not believe the death penalty was the right choice. Especially not on the holiest day in the Islamic calendar. Just imagine the uproar if a new authority tried to execute our Prime Minister, or leader/ex-leader on Christmas day.
It has to be seen as a milestone in the war against terror or world war three. Saddam Hussein being kept alive would be useless. It would serve nobody. Anybody who kills millions of people should not spend the rest of their lives being blessed with tv, food and all the comforts of prison. Justice has been served and finally Saddam is no more.
Unless of course, you're name happens to be Pinochet.......but of course, the good general didn't kill millions, only thousands. And he was a pal of both the US and Britain....come to think of it, so was Saddam when it suited the purpose...neither the US nor Britain had any problem supplying weapons to him to carry out his killing. Either way, it's a travesty of international law, and I can't see how anyone can claim Saddam got a fair trial.
From this article: Mr Bush said Saddam's execution was "the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime". I would have said it was exactly the kind of justice meted out to the victims of his brutal regime...
yes ... but first consider the source. i don't think anyone claims bush is bright to begin with. he was even quoted once as saying that he'd continue the war on terror against the people in America. fucking douche.
So they're fascist dictators who killed millions of their own people are they ? C'mon get real, OK hate america for what it has done in starting a war but that has sfa to do with what Saddam did or didn't do. Are we now declaring Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and their ilk as helpless victims the of the democratic west, none of them had a fair trial.
Among them, only Saddam has been tried and executed. It was Stalin if I recall, or Russia under Stalin that actually defeated Hitler. Again, he was, like Pinochet after him, 'our ally'. At leat when it suited our purposes and those of the USA.
For me, Saddam Hussien's killing was an attempt to justify American economic expansion and the need for oil. To argue that killing him was indeed us/we, the righteous west who mete out democratic justice is just mad. The whole of that region is now so inbalanced a new dictator will inevitably rise from the mayhem when both America and the UK are forced to retreat, you would have thought America would have understood their own recent history when invading sovereign countries, its almost impossible to succeed. I'm not here defending the murderer but I wonder what sort of pressure was placed to make sure something was to come from this economic war. This is before we consider Afganistan, Palestine and Lebanon? The attack on Lebanon will have indeed created new problems for the future. Capitalism will always need to find new opportunities for profit, when it needs to deliberatly and utterly destroy to begin and expand again. Makes you wonder who is getting these contracts to rebuild Iraq?
i dont know what i think should have happened, but im not a supporter of the death sentence and it wasnt the first thing i wanted to hear curled up in bed when i woke up this morning and switched on my radio
Killed people? Yes, they have. wtf does "their own" people mean? For Gods sake, people are people. Not a single soul should be killed but this posters point i think was that bush and blair have killed many, many people...tiny babies, children, mothers, men. It doesnt matter who they were. What they were. They were human
Thanks for posting some sense. It saddens me when anyone thinks that the killing of any person is "good".
And thank YOU, lithium...sometimes i get scared by the thoughts of others about things like this...It seems pretty common to believe killing someone is right if done under certain circumstances...thats worrying But its good to see a bit of rationality and sanity As for whoever said "what use would he be?"...USE!? Oh please...
