There is really no need to say more than is necessary to get a point across. Anything more, is annoying. I was an English minor in college. One of the things we learned was how to cut out all the trite and wordieness out of everything we wrote. I could go on a copy/paste binge like many, but why bore people. When I see copy/paste and long rants it tells me a few things about the poster. 1. They have no life 2. They have no original thoughts of their own 3. They want attention 4. They are beating a point to death because they have no point It's the quality of the post, not the quantity that counts. Use that philosophy as a webmaster and you might find yourself more successful than ever... This post is getting a bit long, so I digress...
I'm fully aware of that. Check some of my posts and you'll see that I know what I am doing. I have been around forums since 1995 mate so I am confident at making class posts. You'll never belittle me buddy so stop trying to be a hero because it isn't working.
Good stuff Mia, I'm proud of you. Anyway, this is obviously going nowhere so I will let you get the last word in or we'll be wasting posts all night. And when you go to sleep tonight you will be able to say "I am a hero because I got the last word in against that stupid moonbat AGS and I'm just about the biggest hero since Arnie in Commando." Rock ON!
Yea, that's exactly what I mean. And this just can't happen with USA's imposist politics. Totally wrong.
Saddam Hussein Hanged for the Wrong Reason What about giving this story a perspective from the Saudi Arabian leading English daily newspaper The Arab News http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=90555&d=1&m=1&y=2007 It was not the Iraqi government but its American masters that chose to execute Saddam Hussein in a great rush as soon as the first sentence was confirmed, thus canceling all the other trials on far graver charges that awaited him. The current Iraqi government had nothing to hide if those trials went ahead; the United States government did. Cast your mind back to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Washington’s pretext for war then was Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, with barely a word about bringing democracy to the downtrodden Iraqi people. But in order to persuade us that Saddam’s WMD were a threat to the whole world, we were told a lot about how wicked he was, how he had even “gassed his own people.†Well, there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction, so now the script has been changed to say that the war was about bringing democracy to Iraq. But that still requires Saddam Hussein to be a monstrous villain (which he certainly was), and it needs some dramatic supporting stories about how he abused his own people, like his poison gas attacks on rebel Kurds in 1988. So let’s try him for the slaughter of the Kurds in 1988, and then we’ll hang him. Fair enough, and the trial for the gassing of the Kurds actually got started a couple of months ago. Other trials, for his savage repression of the Kurdish revolt in 1988 and the Shiite revolt in 1991, were already scheduled to happen in the New Year. But none of that came to pass. All the other trials have been cancelled, and they actually hanged Saddam for the judicial murder of 144 villagers in the town of Dujail who were allegedly involved in a plot to kill him in 1982. Dujail? Here is a man who began his career in power in the late 1960s by exterminating the entire (mostly Shia) leadership of the Communist party in Iraq, went on to launch an invasion of Iran in 1980 that cost up to half a million lives, massacred his own Kurdish population in 1987-88 when some of their leaders sided with the Iranians, invaded Kuwait in 1990, and massacred Iraqi Shiites in 1991 when they rebelled against his rule at the end of that war. And they hanged him for Dujail? It’s as if they had taken Adolf Hitler alive in 1945, but ignored his responsibility for starting World War II and his murder of six million Jews and just put him on trial for executing people suspected of involvement in the July 1944 bomb plot. With all of Saddam’s other crimes to choose from, why on earth would you hang him for executing the people suspected of involvement in the Dujail plot? Because the United States was not involved in that one. It was involved in the massacre of the Iraqi Communists (the US Central Intelligence Agency gave Saddam their membership lists). It was implicated up to its ears in Saddam’s war against Iran — to the point of arranging for Iraq to be supplied with the chemicals to make poison gas, providing Baghdad with satellite and AWACS intelligence data on Iranian targets, and seconding US Air Force photo interpreters to Baghdad to draw Saddam the detailed maps of Iranian trenches that let him drench them in poison gas. The Reagan administration stopped Congress from condemning Saddam’s use of poison gas, and the US State Department tried to protect Saddam when he gassed his own Kurdish citizens in Halabja in 1988, spreading stories (which it knew to be false) that Iranian planes had dropped the gas. It was the US that finally saved Saddam’s regime by providing naval escorts for tankers carrying oil from Arab Gulf states while Iraqi planes were left free to attack tankers coming from Iranian ports. Even when one of Saddam’s planes mistakenly attacked an American destroyer in 1987, killing 37 crewmembers, Washington forgave him. And it was George W. Bush’s father who urged Iraq’s Shiites and Kurds to rebel after Saddam was driven out of Kuwait in 1991, and then failed to use US air power to protect the Shiites from massacre when they answered his call. The US was deeply involved in all of Saddam’s major crimes, one way or another, so no trial that delved into the details of those crimes could be allowed. Instead, the spin-doctors in the current Bush administration put the Dujail trial first and scheduled the trials for Saddam’s bigger crimes for later, knowing that they would all be canceled once the death penalty for the Dujail incident was confirmed. The dirty laundry will never have to be displayed in public. But it does mean that the man who was hanged last Saturday morning not only had a farce of a trial before a kangaroo court; he was executed for the wrong crime.
^ so much to read. I just wanted to know why was he hanged? I thought they stopped hanging people a long time ago?? I thought it was deemed inhumane and therefore was never used to kill someone. If the above made sence is the law different in the US? In australia I doubt there would ever be a hanging again.
If you think hanging a tyrant is inhumane, what do you call beheading people? Is beheading for allah a just punishment for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Actually beheading is a misnomer. What the islamists do is hold down a helpless man, usually with both hands tied behind his back, and then hack away at his neck with a large knife, like a big steak knife. Then likes drones in a bloodlust they utter words to their god. Beheading conjures so much grander a vision, like what they used to practice at the Tower of London.
Thanks buddy! You have a great year too. Try not to get banned buddy as I like to think that people like me and you add a certain spice to this P&R forum. You can even be my wingman if you like.
Did you get the invitation to Will Spencer's political forum for Republican lunatics yet AGS That way you could discuss politics with sane people as Will mentions in his traffic hijacking signature! LOL
I'm just mad that Will, Mia, Henny and GTech never let me in their private Nixon lover forum man! I could learn a lot from such luminaries like those guys when it comes to understanding how in the hell anyone could vote for Nixon or Bush twice!