Saddam will be sentenced on Sunday

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Saddam was, first and foremost, contained and as such no danger to the region, let alone the world.

i wonder how many from kuwait would agree with that

Since being pushed back out of Kuwait in 1991 until the attack by the US on his country, just how often has Saddam posed an actual threat to Kuwait? I don't hink that Kuwait was all too concerned about Saddam anymore. Interestingly, Kuwait is not to be found as a member of the "coalition of the willing" either.

previous question of

Saddam was, first and foremost, contained and as such no danger to the region, let alone the world""

asked and answered.

you can ask the kurds if you need further evidence in regards to your question

have a nice day

Congratulations on missing the point yet again. You're running up some kind of record on that one.

Our invasion of Iraq was never, ever about the Kurds. Nobody even pretended that it was. They have not only had hard times under Saddam but still have hard times in Turkey - don't look now but that's one of our NATO allies. Not that anyone is doing anything about the situation of the Kurds in Turkey. But that's really besides the point altogether.

Saddam was a brutal dictator keeping his regime going with an iron fist. No doubt about that. I've never said anything else. He was and still is a very bad guy.

What he was not, though, following the defeat over his illegal invasion of Kuwait, was a danger to the region or the world. He was, internationally speaking, as contained and harmless as anyone could possibly be.

I just think its total foolisness how ET can dismiss 180,000 deaths so easily just based on us not going their for that peticular reason.Also its ironic for you to say he was contained and not a threat. I beleive the U.S. accidently posted on a website some of Saddams how to make a nuke papers. I also love the token Saddam is a bad guy line.For you to equate Saddams treatment of the kurds with Turkey (NO COMMENT) Saddam gave the Kurds a hard time.We give each other a HARD TIME here but what Saddam did was a lot bigger than a hard time. He tried to extinguish them from the face of the earth! I would gladly show you some pics of the hard time he gave them. Lets not forget UDEA and COOODAY! Saddams lovely and gracious sons, The ones that loved to visit the little girls schools for an afternoon of fun, what the hell they were just givin them a hard time?

I am not dismissing anything other than the argument put forth by yourself that we went in there to help the Kurds. We plain and simply did not however much you'd like to be able to make that claim.

Are the Kurds in Turkey better of than the Kurds were under Saddam? Absolutely. Should we hold our NATO ally to higher standards than a brutal dictator? I would most certainly think so. If it was the Kurds the President was worried about, he'd have a chat or to with the folks down there in Ankara about them as well. But he doesn't.

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I am not dismissing anything other than the argument put forth by yourself that we went in there to help the Kurds. We plain and simply did not however much you'd like to be able to make that claim.

Are the Kurds in Turkey better of than the Kurds were under Saddam? Absolutely. Should we hold our NATO ally to higher standards than a brutal dictator? I would most certainly think so. If it was the Kurds the President was worried about, he'd have a chat or to with the folks down there in Ankara about them as well. But he doesn't.

Agree: if US had really gone in to help the Kurds, they would have done so in 1991 (just after the Gulf War) when it would have maybe been a "cakewalk". Also, what about the ones in Iran (no president after Bani-Sadr has been averse to Stalinesque repression--despite of some labelling Khatami as "moderate" and Nejad as "radical"; one could actually call them the equivalents of Brezhnev and Trotsky) or Syria (Hafiz Assad was no more averse to killing his own citizens than Saddam Hussein--nor is Bashir)

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