Originally posted by Tony Blair
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Wake up people, what a lot of b*llocks is in this thread. If we are talking regime change (which we weren't at the start) then that is half the countries on earth, starting with Africa, finishing with South America, N.Korea, Saudi Arabia (known terrorist sponsors) and China !! That is no justification at all.
Knee-jerk 9/11 reaction by the USA - need to be seen to do something to retaliate AND it's a message to the rest of the planet that they could be looking at the same (anyone seen Libya cacking it and playing nice now ?). Now, the main reason to stay is that chaos will interrupt the oil supply, if that wasn't there, they would be long gone and letting them fight over the sand and shanty towns till half of them are dead.
GB are there to keep step with USA, we are reliant financially and need to be in their good books. End of story.
It will end in a sh!t storm and everyone knows it. People sat in their cosy middle class democratic stable countries have no idea how the rest of the world works, it's every man for himself and the winner takes all the power and riches.
Civil war, emergence of military led government dictatorship, some progress towards stability - 10-15 years I reckon (oil production limited through all this time)
HTH
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Originally posted by ChurchillThat's alright then!
There you are you see, we are making a difference.
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Originally posted by MrsGoofyou guys seem to be forgetting how this all started out.
UK and France created Iraq, ignoring natural tribal boundaries, then then carved off Kuwait so we coulds access oil if any trouble arose.
UK and US provided sadam arms to overthrow a previous reigieme. and then for many years ignored what was going on, untill Oil became an issue.
We finally withdrew in 1948 (voluntarily, as it happens) in the full knowledge that Iraq had huge reserves of oil (as did Persia, which was friendly to the UK). We continued to run the Iraqi oil industry through until c. 1975, though they did chuck us out & attempt to replace us with the Russians several times, then changed their minds and asked us back when it turned out that the Russians weren't as good as they thought they were.
And before we keep going on about how we armed Hussain, just remember that when he came to power ALL the Iraqi armed forces equipment was Soviet built, and guess what, when we invaded Iraq, it was STILL all Soviet manufactured, apart from some French missiles and aircraft (the ones that weren't still in Iranian hands, that is).
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PM 'opposes' Saddam death penalty
Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he is opposed to the death penalty, but it was for the Iraqis to decide the fate of former president Saddam Hussein.
"We're against the death penalty, whether it is Saddam or anybody else," he told reporters, but said there were "other and bigger issues" in Iraq.
An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death by hanging after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International has condemned the trial as flawed and unfair.
Mr Blair said Saddam's trial had given a "clear reminder of the barbaric regime" he had overseen.
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Originally posted by MordacWhere do you draw the line with mass-murdering dictators then? Hitler? Milosevic? Would you have ignored them too?
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Originally posted by ArdescoThere wouldn't have been more death on the streets than there is now, our boys wouldn't be fighting and dying for no reason and the UN wouldn't have been made to look completely impotent when the US said pass a resolutions or we'll ignore you. We wouldn't have wasted millions of pounds of tax payers money on a war that was pointless and nothing to do with us and we wouldn't have broken international law by invading a country for no reason other than George wanted us to.
All in all yes I belive we should have left him in power....
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Originally posted by ArdescoAll in all yes I belive we should have left him in power....
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Originally posted by BagpussSo to pharaphraze they should have left him in power
All in all yes I belive we should have left him in power....
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They should have
....Put a bullet in his head when they found him.
It was about the only time he could have been "killed in a raid" or "been dead when they found him". They should have taken the opportunity to plug hom then and there
Instead they tried to make political capital of him, with this joke trial.
Dont get me worng he deserves a lot worse than death, but we dont deserve the nauseating, "victory for democracy" speeches which are no doubt already being drawn up for when he is hanging high with piddle dripping off his feet.
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Originally posted by mmc71Well said Mordac. People seem to have very short memories. Is it that long ago that the communists lost control of Yugoslavia and the country descended into civil war that lasted years and killed hundreds of thousands?
People dont blame Gorbachov for what happened despite him being the catalyst by removing his support from the Yugoslav regime.
The fact is that however saddam's regime ended you would have had this sort of ongoing sectarian conflict. Unless of course you'd have happily gone along with appeasing another evil dictator to oppress the people and force them to live side by side.
So to pharaphraze they should have left him in power
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Originally posted by ArdescoAh now that is where you are wrong.
In Saddam's Country his word was law so he never broke the law. The fact that we overthrew him and installed a puppet regime means that the court that tried him is not a legal court it's a bunch of interlopers fitting Saddam up for the crime so that they can hang him and tell the world how morally wonderful are now they have killed thier former leader.
Could you imagine a bunch of fuzzy wuzzies comeing over here and arresting, trying and finding everybody here guilty of drinking alchohol ?? Same sort of principle.
From a strictly legal point of view Saddam shouldnt have been tried in the first place, he probably has got what was coming to him but then ask yourself this. Would he have been able to hold the country together if it wasn't for his reputation, I mean look at the place now....
Are you on drugs?
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Originally posted by MordacNo it doesn't. Just because a criminal gets off on a technicality, does't make him innocent. Whether the invasion was iffy or not, doesn't make Saddam any less guilty.
In Saddam's Country his word was law so he never broke the law. The fact that we overthrew him and installed a puppet regime means that the court that tried him is not a legal court it's a bunch of interlopers fitting Saddam up for the crime so that they can hang him and tell the world how morally wonderful are now they have killed thier former leader.
Could you imagine a bunch of fuzzy wuzzies comeing over here and arresting, trying and finding everybody here guilty of drinking alchohol ?? Same sort of principle.
From a strictly legal point of view Saddam shouldnt have been tried in the first place, he probably has got what was coming to him but then ask yourself this. Would he have been able to hold the country together if it wasn't for his reputation, I mean look at the place now....
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Well said Mordac. People seem to have very short memories. Is it that long ago that the communists lost control of Yugoslavia and the country descended into civil war that lasted years and killed hundreds of thousands?
People dont blame Gorbachov for what happened despite him being the catalyst by removing his support from the Yugoslav regime.
The fact is that however saddam's regime ended you would have had this sort of ongoing sectarian conflict. Unless of course you'd have happily gone along with appeasing another evil dictator to oppress the people and force them to live side by side.
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