Now for legal action against Bush, Rumsfeld etc

[Pesmerga]

I'm sure people are trying. I think Americans have made the point that they won't put up with any more shenanigans.

 

[Warped]

Iraq was a free nation?

Christopher Hitchens once spoke about a few things he listen's out for when people speak about Iraq to see if they know what they're talking about. One give away that they don't is when people say "Of course Saddam was a bad guy...". But that doesn't cut it. Think about what fascism is actually like. Imagine being forced to applaud at gunpoint the executions of your family members and friends. The humiliation of being forced to vote for Saddam. An entire people living enslaved under an absolute tyrant. Read the accounts of the Genocide against the Kurds. Hear the few who survived the chemical attacks on their villages talk of the chemical burns that still burn cause them agony to this this day.

Iraq was a state where owning a satellite dish was enough to have you tortured and killed.

It's disgusting and insulting to all the victims of the Saddam regime to say they lived in a 'free nation'. Think about what you're saying, for shame.

let me reiterate what I meant. monetarily Iraq was going to switch to the Euro. The US didn't like this, invaded Iraq with the knowledge that WMDs weren't there and tried to gain a foothold. In the meantime Palaces were raided, civilians were caught in the crossfire and possibly 100 thousand+ people have been killed since the start of the war. I know full well that Saddam was the butcher of Baghdad. The man had statues and paintings of himself everywhere. He'd also kill you if you didn't vote for him during elections, which is why he had 100% of the vote. Also his hanging was a little unjust. They should have done it publicly or at least in daylight.

 

[Kase]

. you dont even quantify your statement in any way.

because i dont need to *thumbs up*

 

[15357]

Also his hanging was a little unjust. They should have done it publicly or at least in daylight.

Public executions, eh? Did we just fall to the standards of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka Commie Puppet Hellhole?

 

[Kadayi]

let me reiterate what I meant. monetarily Iraq was going to switch to the Euro. The US didn't like this, invaded Iraq with the knowledge that WMDs weren't there and tried to gain a foothold. In the meantime Palaces were raided, civilians were caught in the crossfire and possibly 100 thousand+ people have been killed since the start of the war. I know full well that Saddam was the butcher of Baghdad. The man had statues and paintings of himself everywhere. He'd also kill you if you didn't vote for him during elections, which is why he had 100% of the vote.

This. No one disputes the tyranny of Saddams regime, but the rationale provided as a point of justification behind the invasion of iraq was wholly unsound. There are plenty of dictators throughout the world, equal and more to Saddam in terms of their tyranny (Saudia Arabia is a dictatorship), yet the US seems more than happy to ignore these people.