It amazes me the liberal mind hates GWB but never mention the real terrorist
Saddam killed millions
tortured the same
OBL attacked this country for no other reason than to kill and maim
Yet the far left attacks the very people who permanently removed those people from earth. To claim the middle east is un stable because Saddam is dead, Al Qaeda has been broken, that is not reality
Saddam did rule with an iron hand. What business is it of the U.S.'s though what another leader does in his own sovereign country? Isn't that the definition of SOVEREIGNITY?
I take it you have just as little respect for the sovereignity of the United States as you do for that of other nations? You must be all for opening our borders and disbanding our military then?
It appears that with "friends" like you my nation doesn't even really need enemies does it?
BTW...There is very good reason to believe that this final justification that the Bushies finally settled on for invading Iraq (removing a brutal dictator) is ILLEGAL and a war crime under the principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950 number 82 Principle VI
a.
Crimes against peace:
i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
ii. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
Also OBL was not from Iraq and had no ties to Saddam Hussein. Saddam was a Ba'athist who supported the rise to power of a Sunni majority in his nation. OBL was a Saudi extremist...FAR from a Ba'athist or Sunni. Hussein actually had more in common with the U.S. than he did Bin Laden.
Finally, Osama was quite prolific in his words as to WHY he found it necessary to attack us on 9-11-2001. To me his reasons were bullshit but I'm still not stupid enough to fool myself into believing that it was just a random attack of senseless violence.
Try reading his own supposed "justification" for that tragic day and see what you think.
Understanding Terrorism: Why dies Osama bin Laden hate the USA and other Western nations?
former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA's hunt for Osama bin Laden summed it up this way.
"This hatred towards the U.S. arises not from Muslims being offended by what America is, but rather from their plausible perception that the things they most love and value—God, Islam, their brethren, and Muslim lands—are being attacked by America. They hate us for what we do, not who we are."
Make of that what you will but it kinda goes beyond the simplistic reason of simply to "kill and maim" doesn't it?
This crimes thing then would include Clinton as well as BHO then?
what about the 29 Democratic Senators that voted to enforce the UN resolutions?
By the use of force?
What about the 33 other countries such as Poland (I use them because there special force groups were bad ass)?
You want all of them to be arrested?
Your kidding right?
The UN has 0 jurisdiction
Reality is a far thing away from were you are bud
The world court has 0 jurisdiction and as far as I know never officially charged any-one. Iraq lost its right to be a sovereign nation when they invaded Kuwait for no reason and agreed to terms of surrender
BTW why done you Libs have an issue with the billions the UN made in monies on Iraqi oil?
WHEN UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL Kofi Annan quipped several years ago that he could "do business" with Saddam Hussein, he meant it figuratively. In light of the substantive charges coming out of the ever-expanding Oil-for-Food scandal, the throwaway line seems revealing or at least ironic.
"I think we have to take him literally," says Republican senator Norm Coleman, who is leading one of eight investigations into the corruption and mismanagement of the U.N.'s largest-ever humanitarian relief effort.
The basic outline of the scandal is simple: Saddam Hussein used the Oil-for-Food program to circumvent U.N. sanctions imposed after the Gulf war and to enrich himself and his allies. He did this by bribing leading journalists and diplomats and demanding kickbacks from those who profited from selling Iraqi oil. That he was able to do so indicates at least that the U.N. badly mismanaged the program it set up in December 1996. None of this is particularly astonishing. No one is surprised to learn that Saddam Hussein cheats, that politicians take bribes, and that the competence level of the U.N. bureaucracy is, well, suboptimal.
Nevertheless, the details of the Oil-for-Food scandal--who participated, and what they apparently did--are jaw-dropping. Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, appears to have accepted millions of dollars in oil-soaked bribes from Saddam Hussein. The same appears to be true of the former interior minister of France, Charles Pasqua, a close friend of President Jacques Chirac. And the same appears to be true of three high-ranking U.N. executives including Benon Sevan, handpicked by Kofi Annan to administer the Oil-for-Food program. Oil-for-Food money even went to terrorist organizations supported by the Iraqi regime and, according to U.S. investigators, might be funding the insurgency today.
Through seven years' worth of deals that should never have been made, compromises that should never have been struck, and concessions that should never have been granted, Oil-for-Food strengthened Saddam Hussein. What we know about all of this now is a fraction of what will eventually be uncovered. But even this limited understanding should mean an end to Kofi Annan's term as secretary general. The sad history of U.N. incompetence on Iraq generally and in the Oil-for-Food program specifically is enough to make you wonder why George W. Bush settled for John Bolton rather than, say, John Rocker to push for reform at the world body.
Saddam's Business Partners
The scandal engulfing the United Nations' oil-for-food program is not just a tale of a few sticky-fingered U.N. bureaucrats on the take. The program, which ran from 1996 to 2003, authorized at least $69 billion in Iraqi oil sales, supposedly to fund the purchase of food, medicine and other humanitarian necessities for Iraqis suffering under U.N. economic sanctions. Oil-for-food was the largest humanitarian relief operation in United Nations history.
In the event, it was thoroughly subverted and defrauded. Saddam Hussein diverted billions of dollars from the program as U.N. administrators looked the other way while skimming off some of the proceeds for themselves.
Sen. Norm Coleman, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, estimates that Saddam raked off $6.7 billion from the oil-for-food program, plus another $13.7 billion by selling oil on the black market. Whether, as many suspect, Saddam used some of these billions to, in effect, bribe members of the U.N. Security Council to loosen sanctions and oppose any military action against Iraq remains to be determined.
Coleman, a political moderate and a former prosecutor, says Annan should resign "because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch."
Kofi Annan's dysfunctional United Nations | The San Diego Union-Tribune
After the dozens of times you kept saying I was on ignore and now it is fun to watch you hop up and down for being told the same thing. You are going to be on ignore, ignore, ignore, when I get around to it. You will just have to hop and up and down for now.
