Quote Originally Posted by espeago View Post
With full honesty I really think Saddam deserved a prison sentence, killing off a cruel wicked man has only made them look the same, pretty much on his level. If death equals death then this world will never see peace, only continuous bloodbaths and the rule of unjust tyrannies. Saddam has just been made 'history', nothing else.

Infact, I would like to see Bush also serve the same punishment for all his 'crimes against humanity'. What an ignorant world we live in. The outcome of this is not Peace and Unity amongst the tribes or nations of Iraq. The US have not finished what they have started, we are yet to see alot more bloodshed, until then people should continue praying for democracy which may never exist.
It seems the charges leveled against Saddam which lead to his execution is specific to an assasination attempt against him in 1982, not his conduct as a whole while dictator of Iraq. So getting Bush Jr. in the gallows isn't going to happen even if he was sitting in the international jail at The Hague.


It's a dog eat dog world. Many Shiites won't be at peace until the Sunnis are wiped out and vice versa. So, what do you do? Leave em alone and let one group wipe the other out? Personally, I don't know what would make them be at peace.

It's the same with many Muslims in the Philippines, there are those who won't stop until they seceed from the rest of the Philippines. How do you deal with them? Wipe them out?

I too blame the Bushes, but not in the same way you do. In my view, the Coalition should've taken Iraq back in Desert Storm and deposed Saddam right there and then. If Gen Shwarzpkopf was allowed to finish the job in 1991, none of these may be happening. But, Bush Sr. told him to stop at Kuwait's border because he felt deposing Saddam (and freeing the rest of Iraq) might antagonize the Arab contingent of the Coalition. Back then I thought that was BS. I still do today. Leaving Saddam in power was the biggest mistake Bush Sr ever made.

I don't know how long you've been tracking events in the Middle East. For myself, the place had been too much a part of my life for over a decade. Now, someone else is carrying the torch in my place and I'm not frustrated like I once was.