DavidRamsay99 wrote: » If Hitler had conquered Ireland during World War 2 it is likely that this country would have become a battleground with the Allies landing on the west coast and pushed through the country to capture Dublin with the Germans fighting them for every yard. Towns and villages would have been reduced to smoking ruins and thousands would have surely been killed. Are you saying that if that nightmare had come about that it would not have been justified to rid this country of Nazi occupation? As we trade opinions at this moment real living flesh and blood people in Iraq and Syria are living under a cruel barbaric Islamic State occupation and right now the Iraqi Army are pushing into Tikrit and aim to recapture Mosul from those subhuman barbarian animals. Only a naive idiot would believe there will not be massive bloodshed in the months ahead. How else will ISIS be stopped except with military force?
Playboy wrote: » Do the maths, a lot more are dead because of our WMD adventure than would have been had Saddam been left in place.
ISIS are not going to conquer the middle east.
We need to support the regional powers in their fight against ISIS and not launch a full scale western invasion.
ISIS are being supplied by whom? Why dont we look at where there support both financial and militarily comes from and attempt to choke that. States can not survive in a vacuum, they will need food and supplies like any other state.
Playboy wrote: » The US according to people like you is immune to criticism. The simple fact that you fail to grasp is that the law should be applied consistently to everybody including the World Police of America.
wretcheddomain wrote: » Nobody here is suggesting we should ignore the crimes of any country, nor should we accept them - this is true whether we're talking about America, Russia or China - or anywhere else for that matter. There, you will often find Putin exonerated for every conceivable crime he commits - yet the same bias never extends to the US (for good reason, too). Yes - let's be critical of the US, but let's not let that criticism overshadow our interpretation of global events.
DavidRamsay99 wrote: » Saddam was psychopath who killed hundreds of thousands his own people with poison gas and torture chambers. Iraq had no chance at a future under Saddam. Today there is a democratically elected Iraqi government and right now the Iraqi Army and the Iraqi people are fighting to defend that chance at a future from ISIS. Who killed all those people before the Americans pulled out? Shia and Sunni terrorists that's who. Did you somehow miss all those suicide bombs in markets and streets or all those beheaded and torture bodies? If nobody stands up to them they will. If the regional powers fall what other choice would there be? I favor toppling the Saudis and the rest of those terrorist supporting scumbags too.
wretcheddomain wrote: » You claim this... ...yet, I clarified thrice (in one post!) that we should be critical of the US: ...I'm suggesting the wholly anti-US brigade is so blinded by the degree to which they despise it, are ultimately missing the point when it comes to world politics and terrorism. I've tried numerous times to raise this point but, as with a religious zealot, it seems no amount of reason can penetrate your disturbingly biased mind.
Playboy wrote: » Can you please point out all the occasions where I and others have excused Islamists and others for the crimes they have committed? The fact is you pay lip service to the point that the US should be held accountable but you fail to acknowledge and criticize the US for the role they play and have played. The criticism is squarely pointed in one direction because that is obviously where you see the problem lie. You seem to be arguing with some imaginary individuals who think Islamists and Putin are some sort of gift to the world? Who are these people?
DavidRamsay99 wrote: » Saddam was psychopath who killed hundreds of thousands his own people with poison gas and torture chambers. Iraq had no chance at a future under Saddam.
Zebra3 wrote: » Are you aware or do you even care that Saddam was brought to power by the US? Are you aware or do you care that those crimes he committed against Iraqi people were carried out while the US backed him in his war of aggression against neighbour? Are you aware or do you care that he also had Iranian civilians gassed during his vicious US backed war against his neighbours and that the US were prepared to block any move against Iraq at the UN for their US backed crimes? Are you aware or do you care that the US made sure Saddam was executed by a kangaroo court as they would have been deeply embarrassed (if that's actually possible) if he had been put in front of an international court for his crimes against humanity?
Zebra3 wrote: » Are you aware or do you even care that Saddam was brought to power by the US?
Are you aware or do you care that those crimes he committed against Iraqi people were carried out while the US backed him in his war of aggression against neighbour?
Are you aware or do you care that he also had Iranian civilians gassed during his vicious US backed war against his neighbours and that the US were prepared to block any move against Iraq at the UN for their US backed crimes?
Are you aware or do you care that the US made sure Saddam was executed by a kangaroo court as they would have been deeply embarrassed (if that's actually possible) if he had been put in front of an international court for his crimes against humanity?
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » Also suspicious how gadaffi was killed like an animal before he could talk.
DavidRamsay99 wrote: » Do that means he should have been left in power? You are unhappy for obvious reasons that Saddam was put in power but at the same time you are unhappy he was overthrown? I don't honestly care who overthrew him. I'm glad he is gone. Which is why it was right for the US to overthrow him since they created him right? Are you sorry he was punished for his crimes? I'm not. He can't harm the Iranian people anymore because he's dead. The important thing is that he is dead.
Wurzelbert wrote: » not a fan of du penetrators myself...imagine tungsten would be the more eco-friendly option, though probably more expensive...
Zebra3 wrote: » Gadaffi was taken out because he proposed a pan-African currency which would have undermined the scam that is petro-dollar recycling which artificially props up the US and its ability to threathen everybody else with violence. So it's not important that the criminals who supported this mass murderer are exposed? So it's ok for the US to put evil people in power, use them, and then slaughter vast numbers of people to get rid of them again?
DavidRamsay99 wrote: » We don't live in a perfect world and better that America overthrows dictators for it's own purposes than nobody overthrows dictators. I don't care why America overthrew Saddam. I am just glad somebody did it. If a kid was drowning and Gary Glitter rescued her I wouldn't throw the kid back into sea just because she was rescued by a child rapist.
Zebra3 wrote: » I'm fully aware that we don't live in a perfect world, so that's all the more reason that people who support mass murderers are held accountable for their actions. And you conveniently ignore that the U.S. brought Saddam to power. They have no right to be constantly interfering in other states' affairs.
nokia69 wrote: » no, saddam took power himself
Zebra3 wrote: » He came to power through a CIA backed coup. Anybody with even half a brain is aware of that.
Playboy wrote: » ISIS are not going to conquer the middle east.
DavidRamsay99 wrote: » If nobody stands up to them they will.
Tony EH wrote: » There's so much idiocy on this thread, it beggars belief. ISIS are 30,000 strong, if that, according to most analysts. If they can conquer the Middle East with tiny amount of personnel, then that would qualify them as the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen. Too many people on here talking absolute shite.
nokia69 wrote: » nope stop blaming the US/CIA/the west for everything the americans never really liked saddam, they did help him fight iran but thats about it
obplayer wrote: » Evidence? Links? Or is it all on a "need to know" basis?
LucidLife wrote: » Pretty lazy, just google his rise to power because right now your ignorant. Why should someone go out of their way to link an obviously genuinely uninterested party such as yourself?
Streetwalker wrote: » Power of western media and ISIS propaganda wing. They are nothing but a ragtag grouping of sad bas tards with a few Toyota pick up trucks. As we seen in Kobani when any half decent military unit stands up to them they get defeated. The real question is why the west has allowed them to grow? Look behind the headlines.
Zebra3 wrote: » http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/revealed-how-the-west-set-saddam-on-the-bloody-road-to-power-1258618.html Meanwhile, back in la la land, the Americans are sweet angels who never do anything wrong. They should have the freedom to butcher whoever they want, and back whatever dictators they want cos they know best. No need for the proles then to think about issues like human rights and international law.