Never mine, he told the UN where to get off. Daddy Bush played by the UN rules and Saddam killed a couple hundred thousand more. Sure your right, just sit back and watch.And Mr Hussein was your buddy until he decided to tell you where to get off.
i'm pretty sure the rampant and vast suffering in Iraq never reached these proportions with Saddam in charge.
Radical Islam is not going to take over the world. The vast majority of Muslims are not fundamentalists. The sooner you realize this the sooner you'll calm the hell down and ease up on your anti-muslim rhetoric.
"Mr. Hussein's has been a tale of terror that scholars have compared to that of Stalin, whom the Iraqi leader is said to revere, even if his own brutalities have played out on a small scale. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people, historians have concluded. Even on a proportional basis, his crimes far surpass Mr. Hussein's, but figures of a million dead Iraqis, in war and through terror, may not be far from the mark, in a country of 22 million people."
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/ajan/27_saddam.html
Wrong.
Read about chemical attacks on the Kurds, (gee, no WMD there!) the genocide of the marsh Arabs of the south, the children's prison, and Saddam's secret police........I'm not gonna give you links, as it seems you couldn't be bothered looking at them..
That's OK, having made up your mind, you don't wish to be confused with the facts........typical of the human condition.
Movements that become dominant are never led, or inspired by the mass, but by the few............all the "moderates" have to do is stand by until they are needed, and when the coice becomes inevitable, they will choose "submission" (Islam)
Radical Islam could not exist without the tolerance of a large part of the Muslim world.....indeed, the encouragement of much of that world.
Ask Ms. Ali. She knows. Look at France. Or the Netherlands.........they are slipping fast.
How many countries with majority Muslim populations are tolerant, free democracies???
There is a clash of civilizations.....a slide back to the Dark Ages...........and you had best wake up to it.....
And yes, the wolves (of one kind or another) are always at the door.
No, Iraq has never seen such anarchy and chaos that the Americans have brought upon them.
How do you propose they do that? Plenty of muslims have spoken out against fanaticism, but beyond that what can they do? Why doesn't the Pope, and other Catholics do a better job getting rid of the pedophile priests who infest churches worldwide?
''In order to justify international action, the nations involved need only be convinced that a threat to them exists.''
You obviously do not know what you're talking about. Contrary to what you wish to believe or what you have seen on the Fox network, there must be clear and convincing evidence of a threat to warrant international intervention.
''No dodging the question.''
Republican ally Suharto killed THREE TIMES as many people as did Saddam but nobody demanded that an international force kill him for his crimes. The rational being that a country solves its own problems. Since that was the standard for fascist dictator Suharto, then it must be the same for Saddam or for democratically elected Ahmadinejad.
No they were not - Now were the 4000 a month that Sdamm was executing on average.And, the 100 000, or so, Iraqis who died were tyrants too?
''In order to justify international action, the nations involved need only be convinced that a threat to them exists.''
You obviously do not know what you're talking about. Contrary to what you wish to believe or what you have seen on the Fox network, there must be clear and convincing evidence of a threat to warrant international intervention.
''No dodging the question.''
Republican ally Suharto killed THREE TIMES as many people as did Saddam but nobody demanded that an international force kill him for his crimes. The rational being that a country solves its own problems. Since that was the standard for fascist dictator Suharto, then it must be the same for Saddam or for democratically elected Ahmadinejad.
OOPS! Bringing logical and rational thought to an emotionally charged free for all seems to have brought it to a screeching halt.
But... but... Hussein told the Yanks to stuff it so he had to be eliminated... right? Or, it was about the oil after all.
The chaos in Iraq is because the invasion destabilized the country. Bad ass or not, Hussein kept a lid on the violence (even if he did initiate some of his own), he kept order in his country. Now you just have pandemonium thanks to Dubbya and Dr. Strangelove.
''Hussein kept a lid on the violence (even if he did initiate some of his own), he kept order in his country.''
That is correct contrary to the myths reported by the delusionals on this forum. Moreover, Saddam protected Christians and Jews against persecution from radicalized Muslims. Today, almost all of these unfortunates have fled the country thanks to Bush's invasion.
Oh the poor ****ing useless Jews again...Boo hoo.
It should be pointed out that a lot more useful things come out of Israel than come out of Iran. So if Jews are useless, what must that say about Iranians.
''Hussein kept a lid on the violence (even if he did initiate some of his own), he kept order in his country.''
That is correct contrary to the myths reported by the delusionals on this forum. Moreover, Saddam protected Christians and Jews against persecution from radicalized Muslims. Today, almost all of these unfortunates have fled the country thanks to Bush's invasion.
Real Jews such as the Mizrahim (Oriental or Persian Jews) are loyal to Ahmadinejad as has been pointed on this forum previously. That's a point Colpy has ignored much to his chagrin.
Yet the systematic torture of these and countless other men in Abu Ghraib and the 300,000 Iraqis in mass graves have proven less newsworthy than the ultra vires acts of a few American soldiers who abused Iraqi detainees. Perhaps this is because the world holds America to a higher standard—
How many thousands of years have they been living there through all sorts of govt's, kings, religious beliefs and dictatorships and now all of a sudden they have to kiss ass?And yes, the 25,000 remaining Jews support the current President, because they fear the alternatives may be even more looney.