Comments on: Iraq

By: Jaq

Jaq — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:20:47 +0000

Sorry Flo – link hasn’t worked. Click on my name and you’ll find a link to it on my blog.

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By: Jaq

Jaq — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:18:13 +0000

Auntie Flo – BTW, if you’re interested there was an infamous debate about the Iraq war twixt The Hitch and George Galloway. You can listen to the highlights here.

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By: Jaq

Jaq — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:43:21 +0000

Not in a British prison though Flo – he’d be out in a few months!

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By: Auntie Flo'

Auntie Flo' — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:55 +0000

Thanks for the ‘Don’t hang Saddam’ article, Jaq. My thoughts entirely. If we’re brutish enough to collectively murder people, then why punish murderers – since we’re all murderers too. No, let him suffer in prison.

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By: mistral

mistral — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:07:34 +0000

The bit about Saddam’s grand plan sounds plausible until you remember that he was found, on his own, in a hole in the ground, and that doesn’t suggest to me that he had an exit strategy.

What may have looked like soldiers melting away to come back later was soldiers running away. They were at heart all cowards supporting a regime out of fear.

What you see now isn’t a resurgence of the old regime, it is Russian style gang warfare for nothing more than the pleasure of watching people die and establishing mini criminal empires. They are killing each other in far greater numbers than than their “hosts”.

The US failure to take Iraq alive, as it were, was largely a result of indulging its own liberal elite. Had the US gone in and ruled with a rod of iron, just like Saddam did, things today would have been a whole lot better for Iraqis. Had they imposed curfews, shot detractors, summarily executed random people etc, etc, the locals would have taken this as business as usual and gotten on with it. But for some reason they imagined (how they did this I don’t know) they imagined they would be welcomed as heroes and gave out sweets.

I think the war was evil, and predicated on lies, but if you want to win something like that I think you have to be very brutal.

I still to this day cannot understand the mindset of anyone who voted for this catastrophe but thanks, Boris, for trying.

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By: Jaq

Jaq — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:53:23 +0000

The out of service dept – I like that verse

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By: The out of service department

The out of service department — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:02:30 +0000

“It’s a shame, Mr. Blair,” Quoth George Bush,
“We invaded Iraq in a rush!
We wanted the oil,
Not this murderous toil
We should have just financed a putsch!”

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By: Jaq

Jaq — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:49:59 +0000

“Don’t hang Saddam” – interesting article (I thought) by The Hitch here

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By: The out of service department

The out of service department — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:00:12 +0000

‘The wages of sin is death’
‘Uneasy lies the head that bears the crown’
‘Nearer to the crown, nearer to the sword’
To name but most of them.

Come on Jack, chopping the head off one’s arch enemy is a time honoured tradition in Texas and British Parliament. This is the culture of Islam. None of this ‘first offence’ rubbish we have in the West, just ‘Off with his head!’

Anyway, Saddam was like a professional hit man. He must have spent most of the last twenty years wondering when he was going to get two in the back of the neck.

I’ll bet Saddam’s laughing his nuts off at the moment; he’s won (effectively). He might as well go out on a high point. How many people can say that? (certainly not Alex Ferguson…. probably)

So how about joining in with a chorus of ‘We’ll hang up old Saddam on the Seigfried line…’?

P.S.
Did anyone see Adam Bolton (Sky News political correspondent) winding Tone up last night at the Prime minister’s press conference? Laugh! I nearly wet myself!

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By: Jack Target

Jack Target — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:21:23 +0000

Always charming to make songs about somebody’s imminent death…

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