Saddam captured!!!

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Iraq is secular in government but Islamic in nature, fuck off dude.

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And you think Saddam would abide by the peaceful Muslim sect or the violent extremist one? I mean he did gas all the people from Iran because they were a different type of Islam then his own.

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I'm not an advocate for pointless torture, even for a man like Saddam. They should just put a bullet in his brain after trial.

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Death is too good for him. It's basically letting him off the hook.

I'd rather he spend the rest of his life confined in a cell, to think about everything he's done.

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What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Iraq is secular in government but Islamic in nature, fuck off dude.

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:nod: True.

But in theory all Saddam loyalist should be very moderate Muslims, the kind that aren't offing people in the name of Allah, but in the name of the "great Babylonian prince".

There's a big difference between actual Saddam loyalists, and opportunistic Islamic extremists.

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Death is too good for him. It's basically letting him off the hook.

I'd rather he spend the rest of his life confined in a cell, to think about everything he's done.

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I wouldn't see anything wrong with him spending the rest of his life in a cell either, but it's the kind of inhumane torture that I don't think should be brought down on anyone. That doesn't make us any better then Saddam if we treat him like that.

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:nod: True.

But in theory all Saddam loyalist should be very moderate Muslims, the kind that aren't offing people in the name of Allah, but in the name of the "great Babylonian prince".

There's a big difference between actual Saddam loyalists, and opportunistic Islamic extremists.

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Alright, fair enough, sorry for going off on you.

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And you think Saddam would abide by the "peaceful" Muslim sect or the violent extremist one?

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He abides by neither. And what's that fucked up shit that you put peaceful in quotes?

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I mean he did gas all the people from Iran because they were a different type of Islam then his own.

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You mean the Kurds? That was because of racial lines, not religious. If you meant when he killed Iranians, it's because Iran is a fundamentalist extremist Islamic state, and Iraq is secular.

I woke up this morning to the news, and first thought through my head was, "I really shouldn't read the TNL thread on this one." But I did. So much for self-control.

I'm glad he's caught, if only for this reason; the guy deserved it. He needs to be put in jail, to question, or whatever you guys what to do to him. See? Bipartisan; torture, trial, it's all good ^^

I'm also glad that, no matter what you want to say about the hows or the whys, that this whole liberation thing is being seen through. I remember a lot of reports not to long ago, I think around Thanksgiving, about how popular opinion was down, pull the troops out, and so on and so on. One, that would have made this the Gulf War all over again. Two, if we had pulled out when people were worried, would Saddam have been found before installing another base for a power grab?

Not like I know - ask Ali.

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He abides by neither. And what's that fucked up shit that you put peaceful in quotes?



You mean the Kurds? That was because of racial lines, not religious. If you meant when he killed Iranians, it's because Iran is a fundamentalist extremist Islamic state, and Iraq is secular.

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I actually have no idea why I put "peaceful" in quotes, no sarcasm or pun intended.

And when Iraq went to war with Iran it was over the fact that one was secular the other extremist but it was also over Sunni and Shiite dislike of each other.

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Iraq's a secular state, you're thinking of Iran.

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I recall the night the war in Iraq was waged. Saddam or a reasonable facimile said something along those lines. He called for martyrs. Secular on paper just like the USA is a democracy on paper.

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I actually have no idea why I put "peaceful" in quotes, no sarcasm or pun intended.

And when Iraq went to war with Iran it was over the fact that one was secular the other extremist but it was also over Sunni and Shiite dislike of each other.

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:nod: True