Saddam Hussein Hanged

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Originally Posted by Eki

Yes there were reasons. That's why it was a NATO operation. In Iraq Bush couldn't even get NATO's acceptance. That's why he came up with the Coalition of the "Willing" from largely rather small and impoverished countries who are dependent on the US aid and couldn't afford to say "no thanks".

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Perhaps you should have a look at this table. The "rather small and impoverished countries who are dependent on the US aid" don't form the bulk of the non-US force in Iraq by any means.

I agree with the first part of your post, though.

Interesting table, quite many have by now already understood, that the WMD was a fairytale, and taken off.
studiose, whats estonias motives to be there? And will your government send more people there, if, how do they sell the idea to the estonians?

Interesting event.. Husein gets executed, but others like Pinochet get prefferential treatment because they served well US (in general) and UK purposes during the Malvinas (Falklands). Even M.Thatcher made comments of sorrow after his death. Ask those who suffered his methods if they feel justices has been made..

And plenty of Argentinian butchers are still running around lughing their heads off. But who cares. Those were pro-western people preserving "freedom" and fighting comunism in that part of the world.

And we people like Castro and, now this goony Chavez.. But hey, we need these guys to justify our defense bugdet.. right??

Left or right, booo to dictatorships.

Husein was a butcher, yes, but so are others, and a blind eye is turned depending on who they served...

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Stan, I beg to differ. The CIA was telling Clinton that Saddam had WMD's but Bill didn't want to invade. Was that smart? Maybe, but I think Bush was just going on the info fed to him, and lets face it, he did have a little more motivation to take Saddam down then Clinton.

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It continues to amaze me that anyone even thought for a moment that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, given the fact (and it is a fact) that the Hussein regime was totally emasculated in this respect by the presence of the UN weapons inspectors, who actually did a very good job.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

I may not advocate Capital Punishment in civilized nations of the west, but in the case of a thug such as this, give me a break. IF they didn't hang his sorry hide, people in that country would keep waiting for him to take over again. They had to see him dead, and it was their courts, their people and their decision.

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With this as a starting point for Iraqi justice, how can the country hope to join the ranks of civilised nations in which capital punishment is deemed unacceptable?

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

It continues to amaze me that anyone even thought for a moment that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, given the fact (and it is a fact) that the Hussein regime was totally emasculated in this respect by the presence of the UN weapons inspectors, who actually did a very good job.

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Same here, really amazing, its also amazing that still about 50% of people of usa belives Iraq had something to do with the bombing of the twin towers, either they are morons or the press is pure crap over there.

BBC news reporting that someone smuggled a mobile phone into the execution and has released the video onto the web

What gets me is that none of the well paid analysts saw that Iraq would fall into anarchy when Saddam was removed, and if they did, why did no-one care?

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Interesting table, quite many have by now already understood, that the WMD was a fairytale, and taken off.
studiose, whats estonias motives to be there? And will your government send more people there, if, how do they sell the idea to the estonians?

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Our troops are in Iraq purely to earn the good-will of our new NATO allies, and the government makes no secret of that. Most Estonians believe the war is based on nothing, but accept the presence of our troops. We want to be good, reliable allies. And we want to be become a prosperous and well-known European country. Then, so we hope, we will not be left alone again when Russia attacks again.

That's the bottom line. Our mission in Iraq has been extended until the end of 2007, and it can be extended again. It's the same with Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic troops are also in Afghanistan and engaged in some of the most dangerous regions.

Another reason for our participation in these missions is, of course, that it's excellent training for our military and a great stimulus for development.

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Originally Posted by sxis

BBC news reporting that someone smuggled a mobile phone into the execution and has released the video onto the web

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/6220829.stm

It doesn't include the final moment, btw. I'm sure that's somewhere else :)

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Originally Posted by Ian McC

What gets me is that none of the well paid analysts saw that Iraq would fall into anarchy when Saddam was removed, and if they did, why did no-one care?

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Thats not really true, here the military intelligence and professors of Islam has predicted everything on spot in advance what will happen in Iraq, they shot down the phony pics too already next morning, usa so proudly presented in UN, before the war.
Also here was people from the company that did build the analyse equipment UN used to search the WMD explaining how accurate it was, so it was quite clear there was nothing to find really.