Thread: Saddam Hung

And only had the voltage set real low and SLOWLY wound up.
Andrew

Hell yeah

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Unlikely. There can't be a higher level of terror than "complete".



Go on then Ron, you know you want to !






I don't agree we should nuke them.

It would make it harder to go in and get the oil with all that radioactivity hanging about !


Seriously though, I (as did at least one other on this site) used to live in the middle east. There are PLENTY of lovely people there, and I sometimes wonder how it go so F***d up.

They make good tea, too.

I was in Iran in the early 80's when they were at war with Iraq and talked to many security force personell.

I asked what all the little red tents with photos of kids were on almost every corner of the streets in Tehran and Zehadan. They told me they were the matyrs that had been given up by their parents to help clear mine fileds by running over them armed with nothing but a small key to paradise around their neck.

I also had to watch a video at the border where I had to wait for three days while they decided if they would let me out of their lovely country that showed Iraqis interogating Iranians by tying them up and pouring boiling water over their heads.

I agree the general run of the mill bloke on the street was fair minded and wanted an end to this but how do you educate or stop these people from doing this to themselves, their kids, their communioty and their respective countries let alone what they do in Bali and New your and London.

Get out let them kill each other. They are really good at it.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Seriously though, I (as did at least one other on this site) used to live in the middle east. There are PLENTY of lovely people there, and I sometimes wonder how it go so F***d up.

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One Word

religion


the cause of all worlds problems

Why did they use a scarf around his neck?

Was it to stop rope burn?

Originally Posted by Coastie

Why did they use a scarf around his neck?

Was it to stop rope burn?

Yes to stop the flesh being cut.

Can;t have a body looking too poor can we.

(never mind the blokes he tortured etc etc).

The world, eh. Gimme another one please.

I find it funny how the average bloke on the street goes about his life with little if any involvement in matters of war.

Sure Saddam was responsable for Mass deaths, but so are many of the worlds leaders in one form or another, even in our own country.

Remember Tasmania 1804:

Massacres began 3 May 1804 at Risdon when the 102 Regiment of the British Army shot dead 50 Oyster Bay people, including women and children. The Tasmanians had approached without spears and with green boughs in their hands, as a sign of peace. The commanding officer said afterwards he didn't think the Aborigines would be any use to the British.
'The Black War' lasted seven years - 1824 to 1831. Atrocities were committed by both sides, but although black men were castrated and black women raped, there wasn't any record of rape committed by Aboriginals against any white woman.
Governor George Arthur mobilized all available settlers and convicts to form the infamous 'black line', with 2200 men moving across the island over a six-week period, to try in a pincer movement to herd the remaining Aboriginals to the south east. They captured an old man and a child.
By 1831, 175 Europeans had been killed, 200 wounded, 347 houses plundered or burnt. At least 700 Aboriginals were killed in the war. Meanwhile the European population grew from 5000 in 1820 to 24,000 in 1830.
Many (most?) of the Europeans believed Aboriginals were an inferior race; some that they were the missing link between monkeys and humans; some that they were 'savages' who ought to be exterminated...
In 1830, a builder and Methodist lay preacher, George Augustus Robinson went on a 'Friendly Mission' to negotiate a settlement. The Aboriginal remnant agreed to vacate Tasmania, and moved to Flinders Island (1833-1847). There Robinson tried to make the Aboriginals into Black Englishpeople, built East-London type terrace cottages for them, and taught them a catechism (with graphic questions and answers about heaven and hell). Eg. 'What will God do to the world by and by?' Burn it. What sort of place is heaven? A fine place. What sort of place is hell? A place of torment. But the exile was a disaster: over 200 Aboriginals died, and the 47 survivors were relocated back to Oyster Cove, on mainland Tasmania.

Makes you wonder just how little we have developed as a humans when we still feel the need to kill others regardless of what the reason.

Everyone blames religion as the problem. Maybe people need to face reality, if man was created in God's image then maybe we are the god's. After all we seems to be able to decide who and what lives and dies on our planet.

For those who believe in a eye for an eye. Stop and ask yourself when does that way of thinking stop. eg, You kill my brother so I kill yours, Then you kill ....... so on and so on, sounds a little too familiar to me, like perhaps the cause for the constant war. In short there is no answer.

Killing the guy was wrong, for 2 reasons. Does he fell remorse for what he did? NO, he feels nothing nor will he ever again. Will it truely make a difference if he lived or died? They hung the Nazis they rounded up responsable for mass murders too, hasn't stopped people being Nazi's.

Funny how with most mass murderers we try to study them for an insight into what makes them tick, to do that they need to be alive. To hide information that someone has that can harm those in power, thats easy "Dead people dont tell lies!!"

Just my 2 bobs worth

or even more to the point, dead people can't tell the truth either.


Especially handy when the truth is inconvenient.

Like where Saddam got the chem weps that he ended up using on the Kurds.

Weren't the US his big ally at the time?
Wasn't his next trial going to be regarding that massacre ?

Coincidence. Umm, I think not.