U.S. lowers it's flag.

[spitzu]

I've been told that Saddam Hussein was actually only killing/hurting people that he knew or suspected had connections with Al-Qaeda.

Dipping your toes into the sympathy pool? Don't forget about the few hundred thousand Kurds he slaughtered in the 80s. And the few hundred thousand other people that he had executed for dissent.

[evan385]

I should watch the news more. Can't believe everything you hear from word of mouth.

[spitzu]

Especially from bleeding heart hippies

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[evan385]

Dipping your toes into the sympathy pool? Don't forget about the few hundred thousand Kurds he slaughtered in the 80s. And the few hundred thousand other people that he had executed for dissent.

Not at all, I know almost nothing about him or what he did. I was simply stating what I had heard. But I do know that he was comparable to Hitler with how many people that he killed and I do wish that they didn't just kill him. They should have gave him lifetime imprisonment in a cell very similar to the brig in for AWOL soldiers, with four concrete walls, a door of iron bars and barely enough room to move if at all. Would be a much better punishment than killing him.

[rjk890]

The reported estimates of the amount of people killed under Saddam Hussein are close to 1,000,000. That's not a good enough reason to have taken him out? You should go to Iraq and see how the people live there. Then you should go look at the palaces he had. Huge compounds most with either Olympic sized pools, with lakes, on a river or all 3. They were lavishly furnished and decorated. Gold everywhere. Hand carved wooden walls, marble from floor to ceiling. Saddam and his clan lived like kings stealing all of their countries wealth, while the rest of the people lived in mud huts.

One could make the same argument comparing the White House, and other homes that our Politicians live in, to the way many US Citizens live.

That should be of no concern to our Gov. and is certainly no reason to invade another country and overthrow the regime.
Our military is not supposed to be a world wide, wealth redistribution force.

We should mind our own business, and confront our own issues.

[evan385]

Especially from bleeding heart hippies

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I have no sympathy for that man, I only wish that he would have suffered much longer instead of just being killed.

[evan385]

One could make the same argument comparing the White House, and other homes that our Politicians live in, to the way many US Citizens live.

That should be of no concern to our Gov. and is certainly no reason to invade another country and overthrow the regime.
Our military is not supposed to be a world wide, wealth redistribution force.

We should mind our own business, and confront our own issues.

How can you compare the way we live with the way they live....? I'm speechless. Americans are very spoiled and much of the world would give anything to live like we do..

[TessadasExotics]

One could make the same argument comparing the White House, and other homes that our Politicians live in, to the way many US Citizens live.

That should be of no concern to our Gov. and is certainly no reason to invade another country and overthrow the regime.
Our military is not supposed to be a world wide, wealth redistribution force.

We should mind our own business, and confront our own issues.

Sorry but anyone trying to make that argument would have no grounds to stand on. Unless they were trying to say that our Gov was crooked. Sorry but no matter how you look at it there is a big difference between living in a house in the U.S. and living in a mud hut in Iraq. Even living in the ghetto is better. The ghetto is bad only because of how it it taken care of by its inhabitants.

[rjk890]

How can you compare the way we live with the way they live....? I'm speechless. Americans are very spoiled and much of the world would give anything to live like we do..

Read my post again, and tell me where I compared the way we live, with the way they live.

(BTW: Things are changing.)

[dr del]

Guys,

It would be really nice if we could keep this on the main forums rather than having to move it to the quarantine room.

If it is too hot a topic for people to resist then so be it - but lets try.

Nothing said so far has crossed any lines I just thought saying this early on might make sure it stays that way.


dr del