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Originally posted by svandamme
i think you are overrating the significance of his death, he was a thug, he was just a very successfull thug
chance for oppressed people? they were "liberated" years ago, what have they done so far with the chances before their eyes?
did they step up to the plate? how loyal and efficient are the few that actually stood up and join their own police forces ( considering they are in it for the moola not out of idealism)
nothing changed today, not really
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We were 'liberated' over 200 years ago and all we've done since is hand more and more power back to those who rule us. Does that mean we don't deserve freedom too?
Everyone deserves to be free, whether they earn it or not, we all deserve it.
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Originally posted by alf
I could not help but feel a sense of remorse and sadness to learn of someone, anyone, executed.
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I cracked a big, fat smile when i heard.
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Originally posted by Dottore
That is a very balanced summary.
Saddam was a simple man who could easily have been played diplomatically with a combination of carrot and stick.
But the Bush administration wanted blood. The goof wanted to be a "war president".
No matter how you dress this up in patriotic niceties - every US life lost in Iraq was a wasted life. And every Iraqi life lost a crime.
That is how history will see this.
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I love revisionism.
Saddam was a murdering thug. THAT is how history will remember him.