Saddam's true colours

I coudn't find an icon to really describe what I'm feeling.

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Look at their faces. Imagine their last thoughts. Revulsion re-doubles my resolve. Now Saddam Hussein has a new factor to consider. A cornered tommy is gonna go down fighting. Surrender is no longer an option. Pity and humanity will be saved only for those who stand away from Saddam's evil regime.

Do I incite hatred?

I hope so. It's about bloody time we had a reality check. Lets not beat about the bush here. For every soldier we kill, injure or capture, a civilian dies or is injured according to him. We are either very bad shots, his soldiers are blatently desregarding Geneva Conventions, or it's all lies. So what if a cruise missle went off target (unproven). So what if a cluster bomb was used (unproven). Lets get real folks. War is a terrible thing, but wars happen. At least our side took measures to avoid the horrors which unfortunately occur.

This guy will do anything he can to endanger those who are not on his side. Anything to put one minute of time between now and his final defeat. Anything to sew discord amongst his enemies or those who may think to become his enemies.

It's 1945 all over again. Our enemy will never give up the hope of a chink in our armour. His people kill his own just for trying to flee a battle zone. The propaganda machine is the only thing he has on his side, and like Goebbles he uses it at every chance, regardless of the consequences to his people.

A wee list, for the record:

Iraq / Saddam:

1. 12 years of dodging the UN resolutions.
2. Chemical weapons used against Iran and his own people.
3. Invaded Kuwait.
4. Tortures and purges his own people.
5. Tortured Coalition POWs in 1991.
6. Used Iraqi and non-Iraqi civilians as human shields in 1991.
7. WMDs unaccounted for.
8. Torched Kuwait's oilwells. (Not for strategical reasons)
9. Parades POWs on TV, showing almost personal interviews.
10. Executes POWs, and allows the filming of their bodies (maybe more).
11. Encourages military to dress as civilians.


US/UK:

1. Must try to avoid civilian casualties.
2. Must try to avoid damaging the infrastructure of Iraq.
3. Must have the backing of many in respective governments.
4. Can be sacked, removed or fairly beaten in elections.
5. Showed great patience with world opinion before acting (and so ruining the timing of strategic offensive plans)
6. Constantly take criticism, in the face of military success.
7. Try to feed the Iraqis, not knowing if they are feeding Saddam loyalists.
8. Have lost much world opinion, although they take the risks, and the world watches.
9. Constantly have to listen to negative media, who seem to believe a war is a 90 minute film.
10. Must win the war quickly to avoid loss of public support.


I could go on and on, but I'm either preaching to the unconvertable, or you were already in agreement. Let me return to the link.

Sounds like a typical UK tabloid newspaper, although at least they know their legal limits...most of the time. This war has become a media circus. Constant hunger for news of progress with little or no appreciation for the sensitivity of military planning. They even have their own analysts, guessing what will happen. What happened to reporting the news as it happens? Crystal balls and tarot cards these days. They also have little understanding of the logistical aspects of war, nor the ability to bite their fvcking tongues when they are told to wait and see.

If there are massive Iraqi casualties, the coalition is damned. If there are any civilian casualties at all, we're damned. No advance that day, we're damned. No airstrikes, we're losing the momentum and we're damned. Airstrikes and we're getting desperate and we're damned. etc.etc.etc.etc.etc. [/yawn]

It's either casualties and victory, or it's casualites and defeat. Two spades...take your pick.

I reckon UK & US media should be made (Yes...MADE) to be pro-actively reporting the news. Not lying, just not second guessing or reporting every little minor setback (with gusto) or hardly mentioning minor success.

Whether you love or loath George Bush and Tony Blair, you have to admire their courage and resolve in the face of all of this. Maybe they have little nuggets of info, we're not privvy to, which makes it all the more worthwhile to them. Like the existence of WMDs perhaps, or just that they might have gotten this one right.

Before this thing started, I was 100% behind them. In the last week my support has doubled. How many wars have you seen where an invading force is expending as much energy to avoid killing and actually provide aid, as it is fighting an enemy who will use every trick in the book?

Thru talkin now.

Off to bed.

Sleep well, all you protesters. Hope you can face the mirror in the morning. I can.

<b><font color=blue>~ <A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=324&s=58e94ba84a16bedfebbf0f416d5bac48" target="_new">Nice sig 81.</A> ~<font color=blue></b>

That's the way the world works. Unholy alliances are a strategy that everyone uses and so far it has worked best. I have no better ideas of my own so I figure if you make a mess you go clean it up.

The US is not the only nation to do this. Everyone does this.

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So the gun salesman is guilty of murder when a guy commits an armed robbery?

The car salesman should lose his license for selling a car to a drink driver?

Come on!

<b><font color=blue>~ <A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=324&s=58e94ba84a16bedfebbf0f416d5bac48" target="_new">Nice sig 81.</A> ~<font color=blue></b>

Now you're trying say that he should have had a license for the WMDs.

Or you're applying the sensible ideal of responsibility to a man who kills for the fun of it. Lets face it. He didn't really need to kill all those folk with WMDs to gain what he needed. He did to gain what he wanted. A state of total oppression and fear.

12 years ago, the UN ensured that he remained in power, by a lack of political strategy for a post Kuwaiti liberation. So he took his anger, his fear and his political and military impotence out on those who had no defence. Lets try to stop him from doing it again.

<b><font color=blue>~ <A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=324&s=58e94ba84a16bedfebbf0f416d5bac48" target="_new">Nice sig 81.</A> ~<font color=blue></b>

[quote]Lets try to stop him from doing it again.[quote]
True and i support that but i just dont like the way things are turning out at the moment.

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