The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

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

Yes, I see your point. My desire would be to eternally tarnish the regime with the actual evidence ala Nuremburg, rather than to deal with the revisionist accounts that are bound to be spun in the future.