OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested

[Karibu]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
If someone were to prove that Bush knew that Iraq had no legitimate WMD threat and that the war was only intended to line the pockets of Haliburton then I would say that goes way beyond propaganda. Propaganda is lying to gain tactical advantage over the enemy. This would be lying to your own people to cover up presidential malfeseance of a tremendous scale.

Geoschmo

Heh, this makes me remember one small scale (internationally insignificant) scandal here in Finland. We had a parliament election a year ago here in Finland. It is also about changing our government, for the biggest party in our parliament will have the authority to form new government (our government is then changed every 6 years). During the Last weeks of election campaign the 2 biggest parties (social democrats and bourgeois party) had a bloody fight over people's votes and the leader of bourgeois party got into possession of one secret document about our government's discussion of USA about Iraq war.

She knew that it would be very risky to publish it, for if published, it could bring victory to her party but could also cost her political career (publishing classified information is always invetigated). She decided to publish that she had such information and what it was, but would not reveal the source and actually lied about it (she claimed she got it "accidentally"). Her party won the parliament election, partially because of that, ans she was elected as prime minister. But little after election the investigation started and she could no longer hide her source. Also it became apparent that she had lied about things during election. I don't bore you with the details, but after less than 6 months as prime minister she resigned (othervise government would have collapsed) and the people were offered few other political heads in a plate along with her.

What was the point? Lying can get you only so far. And eventually, you have to face the consequences of your actions.

[mottlee]

Good, Bad or Indifferent I my self am glad he is defanetly out of power, call me a "Flag Waver" that is fine by me! That is one of the things we (USA) stand for is the freedom of speach, written or other wise. I my self I am pro military and do think it is a "Good" thing to serve your country, and weather you beleave in the WMD's or not a VERY BAD man is no longer a threat to the rest of the World and for that we can sleep better at night!

(just my $.02)

[tesco samoa]

Legal question.

Where will S.H. be tried. Will it be by Iraq or USA or World Court.

I feel that the only qualification to be met is a fair trial.

Does anyone know what jurisdiciton this would fall under ??

[tesco samoa]

The reason I ask this is that I feel that this is the time now that will be remembered in the long run on the story of Iraq and the western powers influence on it over the Last 50 years.

I would really like to see the truth and I hope it does come out.

[Karibu]

Originally posted by mottlee:
(just my $.02)

Offtopic: Just curious, what happened to $.01?

[Loser]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Legal question.

Where will S.H. be tried. Will it be by Iraq or USA or World Court.

I feel that the only qualification to be met is a fair trial.

Does anyone know what jurisdiciton this would fall under ??

Looks like it will be the Iraqis.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Karibu:

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Originally posted by mottlee:
(just my $.02)

Offtopic: Just curious, what happened to $.01?

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Where did 1 cent come from? The phrase has to my knowledge always been "just my 2 cents."