Thread: Saddam

Originally Posted by resonate

don't you think it's kind of strange how they rushed to kill saddam so quickly before people wanted to put him on trial for his war crimes during the iran-iraq war? the war during which the US supported saddam?
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Saddam waived his right to appeal. There was nothing left to do but kill him.

Originally Posted by resonate

We were told that we were going to war with Iraq because of WMD's, not to overthrow and execute a war criminal for crimes against humanity. Somehow it changed to something different, now we are there to liberate the people.
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You are assuming that the war could only possibly be about just one thing. The war has been about many things, mainly overthrowing an enemy terrorist government that (on top of being that alone) was reported by six governments and the U.N. to have stockpiles of WMD's. That same government had used WMD's for purely terrorists purposes. We overthrew them for the obvious reasons there plus many others, such as the need to have a large democracy in the heart of the Middle East in a future where suicide bomber governments acquiring WMD's are becoming more and more of a threat to civilization. After the overthrow, the son of a bitch at the head of the terrorist government was removed from this world. That is a great thing.