I pit Riverbend.

[Ryan_Liam]

Have you looked at this guy’s past history - formerly an assassin for Saddam and the CIA - and one of the first things he did was to bring back the death penalty. He has said a number of times that Saddam will get the death penalty, even before any farce of a trial has taken place.

I think alot of people will want Saddam dead, he’s just expressing his opinion of wanting him executed, you know, he did send a death squad to kill him, and they ended up axeing his leg up pretty bad.

Big deal, assasin for Saddam, CIA agent against the regime and person he didn’t like, doesn’t translate into him being the next dictator for life wannabe.

If people have tried to assassinate him, maybe they remember what he once was before America ‘sanitised’ him and installed him as Prime minister. Bush has nothing but praise, after all, for this former assassin.

I have nothing but praise for him either, taking on a job which require alot of skill and optimism in a situation where theres daily attacks and kidnappings. Its not like he engineered the situation, or even just went ahead using the US military to level places he didn’t like, in Najaf and Fallujah, they’ve used repreated attempts at negotiation to bring the provinces into the government, but to no avail. The fact he hasn’t killed Sadr, or had him arrested, or tried to curtail numerous groups vying for power when elections come around, is a testimony to his efforts to bring around an elected government to Baghdad. Its his mandate too, if he destroyed that process, I think he’s be pretty much dead or in jail by now.

Americans should be nervous too. One of the many emerging parallels between the current Mesopotamian mess and the Vietnam War is the use of autocratic tactics by U.S.-installed puppet governments that lacked popular legitimacy. That strategy failed in Vietnam and it is likely to fail in Iraq. The only way out for the United States is to allow Iraqis to have genuine self-determination soon.

Erm, which they’re doing?

[ZombiesAteMyBrain]

@Ryan_Liam

I think alot of people will want Saddam dead, he’s just expressing his opinion of wanting him executed, you know, he did send a death squad to kill him, and they ended up axeing his leg up pretty bad.

Apparently 42% of Iraqis would elect Saddam in this ‘democratic’ election … I think this is why Allawi wants to push ahead his ‘mock’ trial before January - to get Saddam out of the way as opposition.
http://www.zaman.org/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20040921&hn=12424

I have nothing but praise for him either

Yea, sure, replacing one mass murderer with another is a good idea - the only difference between them is that Allawi is pro-American [for now, anyway]

[Ryan_Liam]

Yea, sure, replacing one mass murderer with another is a good idea - the only difference between them is that Allawi is pro-American [for now, anyway]

Laughable.

Apparently 42% of Iraqis would elect Saddam in this ‘democratic’ election … I think this is why Allawi wants to push ahead his ‘mock’ trial before January - to get Saddam out of the way as opposition.

Do you think the majority of Iraqis care if that piece of shit gets a mock trial, even though it isn’t? Even though an elected Government is the one which will organise and try him.

42% only want him back, the other 58% don’t plus, the 42% I bet are Sunnis, and they probably want him back to bring about the old privaledges and the security.

[ZombiesAteMyBrain]

@Ryan_Liam

Laughable

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Laughable?? I think it’s laughable that you think it’s a good thing for Bush to have replaced Saddam with one of his former criminal sidekicks!! Did you even bother to read that article about his past
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/edit/index.php?op=view&itemid=1679

The people of Iraq certainly don’t want him - even as an interim leader

A poll conducted in May by the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies (ICRSS) asked Iraqis to rank 17 prominent religious and political leaders. Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister of the interim government that will take over administrative power from the Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30, finished in sixteenth place. Behind him, dead last, came Ghazi al-Yawer, who on Tuesday was named president of the interim government.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,644477,00.html

Where is the logic in Bush appointing the people that the Iraqis wanted least?

Do you think the majority of Iraqis care if that piece of shit gets a mock trial, even though it isn’t?

According to a poll, the majority of Iraqis want him to have a fair trial, though many people around the world feel that a fair trial will be difficult to achieve. I think it should be held in an International court.

[Guinastasia]

Ryan what proof do we have that this guy won’t just become another Saddam? After all, Saddam was one of our allies, once.

I wouldn’t be surprised if ten or twenty years from now, we’ll be invading again, only this time we’ll be trying to get rid of Allawi.

You know, that whole, “those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it?”

[Ryan_Liam]

@Guinastasia

Ryan what proof do we have that this guy won’t just become another Saddam? After all, Saddam was one of our allies, once.

I wouldn’t be surprised if ten or twenty years from now, we’ll be invading again, only this time we’ll be trying to get rid of Allawi.

You know, that whole, “those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it?”

Pretty laughable. Since his mandate is only to be there until the end of January, plus, if we wanted him to be the next Saddam, I think we’d have a national, widespread extremely popular uprising on our hands.

Think Soviet-Afghan.