It's strange how many people have a morbid fascination with death.
Hussein was a nasty bastard, no-one can deny that. He ruled Iraq with an iron fist, and although he killed many people, iraq was a lot more stable with him as a dictator. Look at the chaos the country has been thrown into now that he's gone.
Hussein killed an estimated tens of thousands of people. For this, he was executed. Bush, by invading Iraq, is responsible for the deaths of not only 3,000 US troops, but untold thousands (some say as many as 650,000) iraqi civilians. If Hussein deserved to die for what he done, then Bush should be hung 100 times over.
I don't think that the death of Saddam should be seen as a small moral victory against the worlds ruthless dictators. Instead, it should be seen as a warning to other OPEC nations to (a) banish the thought of switching to the petroeuro and (b) give America a constant supply of cheap oil so they can fuck up the planet even more than it is already. After all, do you think that Bush would have given a shit about Hussein if there was no oil in Iraq? Case in point - the US are building up troop numbers in oil-rich western Africa to secure oil supplies. They're even developing small rapid-reaction teams to quell any potential civilian violence and toying with the idea of stationing troops at camps and air strips. On the flip side, do you remember how reluctant the US was to send troops to oil-less Liberia?
In other words, Hussein never fit into Bush's agenda other than being a scape-goat, an excuse to start a war over oil. Iraq will be worse off, at least for the next few years, now that he is gone. The death of Hussein is no victory. It's just another symbol, like when the troops pulled down the statue of Saddam and photos lined the papers of civilians whacking it with their shoes and cheering - something the American people can look at with 'pride' and fool themselves into believing that 'it was all worth it'. Of course, those of you who are smart (which includes the majority of people in this forum thank God!) aren't as gullible as the average stupid yank and can see through Bush's charade. Fuck Bush, he's a wolf in sheeps clothing and is far worse than Hussein ever was.
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