[Mazer]

Well I hope you're not refering to me as the king of c&p, but I do have a response.

Originally Posted by miss_silver

I reckon it's damned wrong when a leader does that to it's population but ok when the US army does it right?

It certainly is not okay for Americans to torture people, not even prisoners of war. That is why Americans who commit those crimes are punished for them, whereas soldiers from some foreign armies, say the Fedayeen Saddam and the Taliban, were encouraged by their superiors to torture prisoners. Americans aren't innocent, but they have far more conscience than their enemies.

Beside, the US gov didn't give a flying fuck about Iraq since the gulf war, they were contended with the embargo. They started paying attention when Saddam decided to switch from petroUSdollars to petroeuro dollars.

I remember the last American president regularly ordered cruise missile attacks at targets within Iraq all throughout his administration. Iraq was not ignored after the Gulf War, but unfortunatly the president only fired missiles to satisfy his political interests instead of trying to solve the real problems in Iraq.

Iran is about to do the same thing, now they included them, along with Syria in the big great "Axis of Evil"

Syria isn't an Axis of Evil nation, and has actually been much more docile and open to diplomacy since Iraq was invaded. Iran, on the other hand, has been a thorn in America's side for many decades and recently elected a maniacal tyrant as president. These issues go much deeper than the economics of oil.

Saddam has his shitload of wrong doing to answer to but to say he killed so many, i'd take a hard long look in the mirror and reflect on how much the US gov killed Iraquies during the embargo up to the current occupation. The body count is much higher than anyone might expect but hey, it's not like the US gov would want this fact to be published on mainstream media.

If I remember correctly that embargo was levied by the UN, not the United States alone. All Saddam had to do was allow UN inspectors in to prove he had no WMD's and wasn't building any and the sanctions would have been lifted; it would have been so easy for him to comply. Appearently he thought it was more important to appear dangerous to other nations than to provide food and medical care for Iraqi citizens, and their blood is on his hands alone.