Baghdad starts to collapse as its people flee a life of death

[Dundeegeorge]

Yeah but no but yeah but

I'm not sure about proving responsibility for the murder of kulaks during collectivisation, but he routinely signed death warrants for people to be executed.

Any decent lawyer (oxymoron) could get you off that charge.
Did he know he was signing death-warrants? Did he expect them to be carried out? Even if he did sign them he didn't pull the trigger, did he?

[Dundeegeorge]

Err misquote shirley

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The death of one man is a tragedy, if it's someone you know or care about, otherwise it's just a statistic. Or are you with the Voltaire (or Spinosa was it, could've been Chris Evans) school of thought, the death of even one man diminishes me because I am of man, sort of thing.

[AtW]

Stalin had some quality time thinking about what he did and how good people around him when he was lieing on the floor after heart attack being paralised but nobody would do anything about it because his #2 KGB wanna-be leader wanted him to die quietly so his guards prevented people from helping Stalin out: pretty good death to be fair, the guy who ordered deaths of millions was dieing slowly and had to regret he did not kill Beria.

[wendigo100]

Under Saddam people were not killed in the name of religion: looking back it all seems very civil, especially given role he was playing by keeping Iran busy.

That's more or less how I see it. Saddam was keeping everyone in the area busy, including Al Quaida, and not just Iran.

Furthermore, it wasn't our problem. All we had to do is help fund were the weapons inspectors.

[TheMonkey]

This is sounding a little like Airstrip One vs Eurasia.

One minute everything is fine and under control, the next minute we're talking total all out war.