A "good day" for Iraq

[Leafless]

Saddam's trial had a very predictable outcome.

But will Saddam's hanging only increase sectarian violence or will Iraq's come to grips and readjust their violent behavior and seek out a peaceful resolution rather than continue to reduce their country to a further pile of rubble.

I think they will choose the latter.

Thoughts?

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....xml&src=rss

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[scribblet]

I think it will increase the violence, not sure if might be better to keep in in jail.

[jdobbin]

Saddam's trial had a very predictable outcome.

But will Saddam's hanging only increase sectarian violence or will Iraq's come to grips and readjust their violent behavior and seek out a peaceful resolution rather than continue to reduce their country to a further pile of rubble.

I think they will choose the latter.

Thoughts?

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....xml&src=rss

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....xml&src=rss

Saddam is no longer the source of Iraq's tensions. It is sectarian violence.

[Canuck E Stan]

.....And is this thread related to swingers in Canadian Federal politics?

[crazymf]

Saddam should be unsensationalized, reduced to a footnote on the 12th page of the news when he hangs.

He's getting what he deserves. I also believe that although he may not be the main source of violence in Iraq any more, his death will be a strong political victory for the new government there. This just can't be a bad thing on any level.

[betsy]

The news showed some people dancing in the streets and some firing rifles in the air, saying that hese people are celebrating the death sentence of Saddam....and then the news showed the other people (Sunni?) marching down the streets, saying that they are protesting and angry over the sentence. Well, the cameraman should've taken pictures of people who look at least serious. These people looked just as happy as those celebrating! Ha-ha-ha!

Maybe despite what they say...these people still concede: it is a good day for Iraq.

[B. Max]

They're just saying on the news now that he will likely be put on trial again for the killing of a hundred eighty thousand some Kurds. What are they going to do hang him twice.

[geoffrey]

They're just saying on the news now that he will likely be put on trial again for the killing of a hundred eighty thousand some Kurds. What are they going to do hang him twice.

Sure, why not. I'm not normally an advocate of capital punishment, but this is one hanging I won't protest too much.

[Higgly]

Augusto Pinochet, Henry Kissinger, and Ariel Sharon are next. Just you wait .

[betsy]

They're just saying on the news now that he will likely be put on trial again for the killing of a hundred eighty thousand some Kurds. What are they going to do hang him twice.

If he's found guilty again...he's a sure goner.

[B. Max]

Augusto Pinochet, Henry Kissinger, and Ariel Sharon are next. Just you wait .

Sounds like you need a program. Your having a problem telling the good guys from the bad.

[Higgly]

Augusto Pinochet, Henry Kissinger, and Ariel Sharon are next. Just you wait .

Sounds like you need a program. Your having a problem telling the good guys from the bad.

Well then why don't you help me out?

Let's start by trying to identify the good guys. Which do you pick?

Pinochet who had his police fly political dissenters and opposition party members out over the ocean in helicopters tied up like pigs for the slaughter and drugged into a stupor; then dropped from a thousand feet head first?

Kissinger who ordered the fire bombing of Cambodia, leading to the death of tens of thousands of innocent Cambodian pesants and the ultimate defeat of the peaceful government of Lon Nol and the rise of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge who were responsible for one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century?

Sharon, who in the early days of the state of Israel lead reprisal raids which resulted in the slaughter of entire villages (Jordan and Syria) and police outposts (Egypt) and then went on to invade Lebanon and slaughter some 17,000 peple, including over 2,500 Palestinian refugee women and children who had been left defenceless after the voluntary surrender and evacuation of the PLO to Tunisia.

Your choice?

[White Doors]

Augusto Pinochet, Henry Kissinger, and Ariel Sharon are next. Just you wait .

Sounds like you need a program. Your having a problem telling the good guys from the bad.

Well then why don't you help me out?

Let's start by trying to identify the good guys. Which do you pick?

Pinochet who had his police fly political dissenters and opposition party members out over the ocean in helicopters tied up like pigs for the slaughter and drugged into a stupor; then dropped from a thousand feet head first?

Kissinger who ordered the fire bombing of Cambodia, leading to the death of tens of thousands of innocent Cambodian pesants and the ultimate defeat of the peaceful government of Lon Nol and the rise of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge who were responsible for one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century?

Sharon, who in the early days of the state of Israel lead reprisal raids which resulted in the slaughter of entire villages (Jordan and Syria) and police outposts (Egypt) and then went on to invade Lebanon and slaughter some 17,000 peple, including over 2,500 Palestinian refugee women and children who had been left defenceless after the voluntary surrender and evacuation of the PLO to Tunisia.

Your choice?

Yes, yes we get it already. Right-wingers = bad. Left wingers or enemies of the former rightwingers = good.

[Higgly]

No, no. You don't get it. Murderers=bad. Non-murderers=good.

[White Doors]

No, no. You don't get it. Murderers=bad. Non-murderers=good.

haha. Then why aren't you happy about Saddam? All you are doing is prattling on about other things. Why don't you make another thread? I bet you aren't happy about Saddam because the Americans were the one's who ultimately sent him to this fate. Sad to have your world out-look only seen through your painfully obvious paradigm of anti-americanism.

[watching&waiting]

With most of the Middle East it is that a single murderer is bad, a suicide murderer is a hero, and mass murderes are the government whethere elected or dictator. What was thought and said to be the cradel of life, maybe needs a complete exterminantion, before starting to rebuild over it again.

[B. Max]

Let's start by trying to identify the good guys. Which do you pick?

Pinochet who had his police fly political dissenters and opposition party members out over the ocean in helicopters tied up like pigs for the slaughter and drugged into a stupor; then dropped from a thousand feet head first?

Kissinger who ordered the fire bombing of Cambodia, leading to the death of tens of thousands of innocent Cambodian pesants and the ultimate defeat of the peaceful government of Lon Nol and the rise of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge who were responsible for one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century?

Sharon, who in the early days of the state of Israel lead reprisal raids which resulted in the slaughter of entire villages (Jordan and Syria) and police outposts (Egypt) and then went on to invade Lebanon and slaughter some 17,000 peple, including over 2,500 Palestinian refugee women and children who had been left defenceless after the voluntary surrender and evacuation of the PLO to Tunisia.

Your choice?

Well I don't know about your first two for sure, but the one about Sharon is not true, most especially the one about Lebanon. I expect the others aren't either. Like I said you can't tell the good guys from the bad. By the looks of it, you think the communists and Islamic terrorists are the good guys.

[jbg]

They're just saying on the news now that he will likely be put on trial again for the killing of a hundred eighty thousand some Kurds. What are they going to do hang him twice.

My advice may surprise some readers of my posts. I would suggest liberating him, since he was big on liberation. I would free him in Kirkuk, Basra or in the Marsh Region, on his own recognizance, and with his bare hands to defend himself.

Of course, I would announce his release in advance, to maximize the weloming ceremonies. Then, I would conduct a new round of trials.

[gerryhatrick]

Saddam's trial had a very predictable outcome.

But will Saddam's hanging only increase sectarian violence or will Iraq's come to grips and readjust their violent behavior and seek out a peaceful resolution rather than continue to reduce their country to a further pile of rubble.

I think they will choose the latter.

Thoughts?

I think this has sweet nothing to do with Canadian Federal politics.

I also think it's dumb to believe that the execution of a man makes it a good day for a nation that is enveloped in widespread violence with no end in sight, especially considering that the death verdict midht cause more violence.