Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Jul 2005 21:22:26 +0100, AmigaPhil@xxxxxxx 
> Sorry to add to this off-topic thread.  I understand this is not the
> right place to discuss this, but I have to reply to this.
> I'll try to make it short.
> 
> - Iraq has NOTHING to do with 9/11
> - Iraq did NOT treat the USA and was not capable of doing so in a
>   forseable future.  Iraq was not even a treat to the neiborghood
>   countries.
> - The invasion of Iraq is a crime.
> - Saddam Hussein has been arrested.  That's a good thing.  But if
>   we are serious when we talk about JUSTICE, Bush and Blair should
>   be arrested as well.
> 
> I feel sorry and sad (and revolted too) about the innocent victims
> of terrorism - *ALL* victims - in London, Madrid, New-York, Kaboul,
> Bagdad, ...  And yes, I *do* care too for the victims who don't
> get as much attention from the media, the ones for whom we usually
> don't observe a minute of silence, the ones who are forgotten from
> all commemoration.
> 
> I *do* condemn terrorism - *ALL* terrorism - including our own
> War OF Terror.
> 
> I *do* care about life.  Just like I can't see the vistims of 9/11
> as collateral damage, I can't accept the argument that the civilian
> victims in Iraq are "the needed eggs to be broken to make an omelette".
> There is no /noble/ cause that justify the killing of some innocents.
> 
> 
> > I tried to stay out of this very sad topic.  However, this did me in.
> > If the British had not stood up in the 40s they likely would be
> > speaking German today
> 
> So ?  (Not sure to understand what you are trying to say here.)
> 
> Does that give the British a green card to do any crime now ?
> 
> Saddam Hussein is the one who, thanks to the privatization of the
> oil fields, made Iraq one of the richest and best educated country
> in the Arab world.  Medical cares used to be free for all Bagdadi.
> Saddam was even rewarded by the UNESCO for his literacy program in
> the 80'.
> Following your statement, why haven't all the good things Saddam
> Hussein did for his country (and all those SUV in the world running
> thanks to the Iraqi oil) immune him from any crime charges ?
> 
> 
> My 3 cents. (YOU did me in.)  ;-)
> 

My opinion on all this is that Saddam did have to be taken out of
power.  I do feel that there was far too much indiscriminate loss of
life in doing so.  I feel that the UN should have taken responsibility
for this role and not left it to the US and UK.  Lastly, why is nobody
doing anything about Robert Mugabe?  That man is evil and should be
dealt with in a world court.
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Take care.
Kevan Farmer

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