Well Britain's Iraq war is ending now. Who won?

[BrowneIssue]

Well Britain's Iraq war is ending now. Who won?

American businesses?

[NotAllThere]

Subtract from those millions those who would've been murdered, raped, maimed and traumatised, those who would've been murdered, raped, maimed and traumatised under Saddam's regime.

IIRC, war is not politics, it is diplomacy.

[Mailman]

Maybe the title of this thread should be "Who got it right, the Americans or the Poms?".

You can argue (and no doubt you will) until the cows come home about whether the invasion was right or wrong or shake it all about BUT you cannot deny that since the serge kicked in that violence across Iraq has fallen, and continues to fall daily.

So, if them evil imperialist pigs from yankee land can get it right...whats Britains excuse for losing in Basra?

Mailman

[lilelvis2000]

War is politics by other means.

Not your bro's fault they never taught him this.

In this case, War was a couple of evangelical nutters on a power trip.

Is not anyone not afraid of the broken record being played again over Iran?

[Dow Jones]

To Dodgy (Historian) Agent: Faux Pas

So the regime of Saddam Hussein's is what you call "normal" is it? I suppose to a Greek it would be.
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Wasn't it the Greeks that invented democracy?

[Bagpuss]

Let's not forget Saddam was put in power by the west, and while he was gassing his own people the USA et al were supplying the amunition. Remember Donald Rumsfeld visiting as a special envoy from Ronnie Reagan? presenting Saddam with a special friend award. Apparently his action were more than acceptable at the time, but later deemed morally corrupt or was it politically convienient to re-write history? Shame they couldn't airbrush out their complicity.

[Lucifer Box]

Let's not forget Saddam was put in power by the west, and while he was gassing his own people the USA et al were supplying the amunition. Remember Donald Rumsfeld visiting as a special envoy from Ronnie Reagan? presenting Saddam with a special friend award. Apparently his action were more than acceptable at the time, but later deemed morally corrupt or was it politically convienient to re-write history? Shame they couldn't airbrush out their complicity.

How dare you say that, you liberal, bed-wetting, hand-wringing, pinko.

Mailman.

[DodgyAgent]

So the regime of Saddam Hussein's is what you call "normal" is it? I suppose to a Greek it would be.
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Wasn't it the Greeks that invented democracy?

I cant even remember who I owe money to from last weeks contractor invoices, how then am I going to remember any Greek history?

[DodgyAgent]

Let's not forget Saddam was put in power by the west, and while he was gassing his own people the USA et al were supplying the amunition. Remember Donald Rumsfeld visiting as a special envoy from Ronnie Reagan? presenting Saddam with a special friend award. Apparently his action were more than acceptable at the time, but later deemed morally corrupt or was it politically convienient to re-write history? Shame they couldn't airbrush out their complicity.

Just as you are airbrushing out all the other political dynamics of the middle east of the last fifty years.

[Mailman]

Dont bring common sense and a proper perspective of the political climate to the arguement now geeza!

Mailman