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Posted by Spex on 01/06/07 20:10
Toby wrote:
> "Spex" <No.spam@ta.com> wrote in message
> news:459cfd76$0$8723$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>> Toby wrote:
>>> "Spex" <No.spam@ta.com> wrote in message
>>> news:459a52a5$0$8759$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>>>> www.seph.ca wrote:
>>>>> I appear to have found one of the only genuine vids of saddam hanging,
>>>>> someone took it with a cell cam.
>>>>> If interested...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-OiuHqHPVk
>>>>>
>>>>> ~S~
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What has largely been missed by the mainstream media is how the piss
>>>> poor excuse for a fair trial that Saddam was given has set a very poor
>>>> precedence for the Iraqi legal system. After the massive spilling of
>>>> largely innocent people's blood all we have to show for it is that one
>>>> shambolic system has been replaced by another. I am utter ashamed to be
>>>> a citizen of a country involved in this.
>>>>
>>>> At the precise moment Saddam's neck was broken one could clearly hear
>>>> the sounds of Iraq fracturing into 3 states destined to war with each
>>>> other for the foreseeable future over oil wealth. A bit like Kashmir
>>>> but only far more bloody.
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year
>>> A continuing comedy/tragedy of errors. As John Stuart Mill said, all
>>> people get the government they deserve.
>>>
>>> Toby
>> I certainly don't agree that the Iraqis deserve the assholes they had
>> little choice to elect.
>
> I agree that they have had a rough row to hoe, but apparently a thug like
> Saddam was the only kind of authority that could hold such disparate groups
> together. Have to qualify that, however, by saying that the country should
> never have existed with its present borders, cutting across cultural,
> religious and tribal lines. Thank the Brits for that...
>
> Toby
>
>
Absolutely agree. It is an utter mess. Yes the British Empire has a
lot to answer for. A shining example of why colonialism was a bad thing
then as it is now.
Cheers
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