Actually Iraq was a living example of the quote about those who don't remember their history etc. Iraq was yet another example of colonial powers, through the League of Nations on this occasion, creating countries without regard to history, ethnics, religion, etc.
The list contains many of the world's past and present trouble spots.
Iraq, Chechoslovakia, Yuoslavia, Kurdistan, Cyprus, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Israel and on and on.
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Beagle wrote:Check your favorite news channel! Breaking news says that Saddam has about 3 hrs. to live.
More important.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three more Marines were killed in battle in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday, making December the deadliest month this year for American troops in war-wracked nation with the toll reaching 106.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin
And the list goes on.....Well, they can't hang him again I guess.stan wrote:It's official. They apparently did it just before dawn in Baghdad on Saturday.
BTW...here's a litlle of SH's legacy that will be of interest to readers of this forum:Hussein's initials were inscribed on the stones used to rebuild ancient archeological sites.
Bush 1 took a lot of criticism for leaving SH in power. After the House, Senate, the UN, and our allies decided to go to war - I never felt he would get off the hook this time.
We can have a serious troop reduction now thankfully.
I am saddened by his execution, not because he died, but that as a society we need the death penalty, and we do, either as a deterent or as a punishment.
He left a final letter, and it shows the degree to which he, and unfortunately other world leaders, tend to be divorced from reality.
But to my American friends, if you believe that Iraqi's will accept democracy, I fear you are to be sadly dissapointed. Get your men out as fast as you can then the Iraqi's can get down to some serious killing, of each other.
He left a final letter, and it shows the degree to which he, and unfortunately other world leaders, tend to be divorced from reality.
But to my American friends, if you believe that Iraqi's will accept democracy, I fear you are to be sadly dissapointed. Get your men out as fast as you can then the Iraqi's can get down to some serious killing, of each other.
If I remember right, the UN insisted there were no grounds to invade Iraq.Bush 1 took a lot of criticism for leaving SH in power. After the House, Senate, the UN, and our allies decided to go to war - I never felt he would get off the hook this time.
GW told them to take a flying leap and invaded anyway. Not quite sure
what the UN position is at this point.
IMO Bush should have been right there with SH, for ordering the killing
of 450,000 iraqi civilions, not to mention the 1.8 million displaced refugees.
Sorry, been shoveling to much snow!
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 346764.htm
2006 Year in Review. (funny but true)It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor.
Decades from now, our grandchildren will come to us and say, "Tell us, Grandpa or Grandma as the case may be, what was it like to be alive in the year that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears and Katie whatshername all had babies, although not necessarily in those combinations." And we will smile wisely and emit a streamer of drool, because we will be very old and unable to hear them.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... wn_index_8
Interesting! Big Brother is here (has been here)Here are some predictions for 2007
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