Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

True but there is also genocide in Angola. No western intervention there because it isn't strategically place near oil fields.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

Yes but from the news items I saw Saddam himself tried to make it look like he had them. He was having large items moved during the night from compounds to other compounds which, IMHO, he was just generally trying to play a game that he lost. He never believed the coalition were serious, good God they gave him enough chances.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

The way I see it; Hussein has won.
His evil slaughterings of innocent people are still being carried out, yet it is not at his expense anymore, it is at the expense of his enemies in the west.

Bush has succeeded in making him a martyr.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

Yes I agree but on the scale of things the Governments have information we don't they must have assumed on the scale of things that he was the biggest threat.

Oil fields lol! That I give no credibility, again only my humble opinion, but it's just anti-war propganda.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

I think that the people that lost are the ordinary Iraqis and the British and American service people who have given their lives, and for what? A country basically on the cusp of civil war, and a place where there isn't any law and order, and the loss of basic amenities that they enjoyed before.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

A war based on assumption....scary huh?

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

You don't think the position of Iraq to the middle eastern oil fields played a part in both Gulf wars?

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one Tinks.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

I disagree, quite probbly this generation of Iraq's won't benefit and I do feel great sympathy for them having to live in a country that is in absolute turmoil, that we, as a civilised country can only imagine but I do hope later generations benefit from coalition intervention.

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Threat to whom?

Britain?

America?

I don't remember any aimed at those two countries.

I'm not anti-war by the way, but I think our troops should be used to protect our country, which they aren't doing placed like sitting ducks in Basra, and being cheered every time one of them dies, by the people they have supposedly liberated.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

We will just have to disagree there; I do not believe that the generations of the future will benefit from this. Imagine seeing parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles shot at the hands of 'evil men from the west with guns'.
Now forgive me if I sound too forthright here as I do not intend to generalise, but it is these young people that may well grow into the Osama Bin Ladens of tomorrow, fuelled by hatred towards the men that came into their country and killed.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

Yes I agree with you to an extent. I just wish I wasn't so tired lol! I know what I mean it's just not coming out right.

Its ok saying none of his weapons were directed at Britain or America, he was a very dangerous man. Look back through history what happens when idiotic tyrants are given a free reign and go un-checked.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

Well we'll agree then.:)

I'd just rather our troops were out looking for scum Al-Quada, where ever they might be lurking, home and abroad. They to me our more of a threat to Britain than Saddam ever personally was.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

Ok Shaker just turn that one around for a moment, so it's ok to see their parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles shot at the hands of their countries own leader?

Maybe, but wht else can you hope for except they will come to understand that democracy is a good thing.

Re: War! hun What is it good for?
 

agree fully with entwi in all he says, but i would add that any of our troops who witnessed the celebrations of the poor sods burning should have mowed the bloody lot down wether there where kids dancing or not,and if that offends anyone TOUGH.:mad:

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i just have real heartfelt sympathy for the families of the boys who die out there.

RIP.