06-30-2008, 06:21 PM
Quote:Personally, I wish Saddam, Uday and Qusay had been tried for every crime against humanity they committed. Not knowing how the post war would turn out, I think there was also a rush to judgment to prevent the miraculous escape which would only fuel his legend for survival.Why would political show trials have been any good? Paid any attention to the political mess of the trials of the people in Gitmo? Glad his two sons ate lead, very sorry Saddam didn't end up with a GBU-31 on his forehead due to a TST style strike. Would have kept his symbolic value in the post conflict Sunni insurgency down to a minimum, or rendered it nil.
Rummy tossed the dice on a "decapitation strike" and lost, as he did on the two years worth of "decapitation strike" on Zarqawi. Lost due to not being able to simply reach out and smite X, Y, or Z. See also a guy they all Osama Bin Laden.
Want to lose political points? Keep throwing your weight around whilst you foes thumb their noses at you. Image stat drops like a life stat when hit by those Church lvl III zombies in Diablo I.:P
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete