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Saddam Hussein
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
The problem is that it is a Catch 22 situation. Hussein has murdered thousands of his own people, but execution is going to make him a martyr in the eyes of the vast majority of the Muslim world.
Maybe if he was put in prison somewhere and 'left' he would be forgotten about, much like the war crimes trials that went on in relation to the Serbia/Bosnia conflict.
Again being 'devils advocate', if Bin Laden is caught, tried at court and a death penalty announced, would the feelings still be the same? Lets face it, he was trained and supported by the CIA as well.
beast5680:
i thought he was being tried by the iraqis? and that its their law thats being carried out. yes he may have been dethroned by the allied forces and then caught by them but if he is being tried by his own people under their own law whats the problem? any western society always has a problem with the sentencing carried out by islamic countries, its a difference of culture
we give an asbo for stealing they cut your hand off :shock:
davidlandy:
whatever their system of law is just look at the state of the place and its neighbours. then ask yourself if it works.....no, it dont in my view
you dont see our country behaving like that, firing guns into the air celebrating etc. etc.
if they never had oil the whole story would be different i suspect.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---i thought he was being tried by the iraqis? and that its their law thats being carried out. yes he may have been dethroned by the allied forces and then caught by them but if he is being tried by his own people under their own law whats the problem? any western society always has a problem with the sentencing carried out by islamic countries, its a difference of culture
we give an asbo for stealing they cut your hand off :shock:
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That is exactly the point that made His Blairness squirm at the press confrence after the announcement of the vedict.
Yes, he was tried by an Iraqi court, but it was perhaps a forgone conclusion as to what the result would be.
Perhaps if he had been tried by an International Tribunal then the opinions may have been different.
The main thing surely is that the sooner it is all done with the better, so the Forces can get back home without any more lives being lost on both sides.
beast5680:
--- Quote from: "davidlandy" ---whatever their system of law is just look at the state of the place and its neighbours. then ask yourself if it works.....no, it dont in my view
you dont see our country behaving like that, firing guns into the air celebrating etc. etc.
if they never had oil the whole story would be different i suspect.
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you dont see us doing it as our culture is different they were like it before the oil came, its just the oil allowed them to change from scimitars to ak47,s
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