Do you think President "W" Bush made a mistake by incarcerating Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein?
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Hey!! Been waiting for you to get on!! I just sent you an email, so when you get it reply because it has some questions in it!! I have played tennis all day, and I am sooo sore!! Is your cast still annoying you? I bet it is. I had tons of homework to do last night,and luckily I got it all done. Hey, I will ask some Rory questions for you!! Check out some of my Jodie questions!! As an answer to your question, I would say that Pres. Bush should keep Saddam in jail as long as he can. I wouldn't sentence him to death. I would torture him like he did others. Hey, what goes around comes around, and he deserves it. Karma comes back around, and he had it coming!! Hope that answers your question!! \nWuv ya Andy!!
55400
Political Charade.  Even Saddam admits that he would rather just be executed now than allow Bush to feel that he is just when he eventually orders it.\n\nThe names of the judges are secret.\nThe names of the witnesses are secret.\nThere is NO jury.\n\nAlso, one should be held to a trial that would be expected at the time of the crime was committed.
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He absolutely should be tried for war crimes!  It's a shame that you're getting such inappropriate answers to your question.  From the beginning of the war of lies, Bush should have waited for the U.N. to come up with an acceptable way to join together, instead of his kick-ass Texas "I'll do it my way and I'll do it now" attitude. If we had more countries backing the U.S., I'd feel much more comfortable. Does the average person know how many thousands of Iraqis have been killed by our troops? These are innocent people too. Yes, Sadaam is a bad, horrible person, but he could have been "taken out" easier than having so many innocent people die. We are in a terrible state of affairs. I know how uncertain I am and afraid of terrorism and I feel badly for children growing up in this. And his illegal wiretaping - now KNOWN terrorists may be able to be released. What's going on is just unreal and I can't believe people are sitting back, just letting it happen. I think back to how much money and time was spent on Clinton having affairs. Clinton did a lot of good things and BUSH should be getting impeached. The more the press brings out, the worse the U.S. looks. Would Iran be so hateful now if Bush hadn't done so much? North Korea was not given the focus it should have had, or Bin Laden. Our troops are being kept against their will, for much longer than they signed up for duty. I wish there was a way to let other countries know that all American aren't warmongers!
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Yes, he is.  His administration is responsible for the war crimes of:  1.  A war of aggression.  2.  At times, ignoring the Geneva conventions.  eg. torture of POWs, targetting civilians...\n\nHis administration has consistently blocked serious investigation of events of 9/11.  Lies to justify attacking Iraq.  Protection of corporate interests at the expense of the poor, domestically and internationally.  Repression of independent media (ie. not corporate owned with nationalist leanings)  And so on, and so on...  Hippocracy of having nuclear weapons at their disposal, and threatening their use, while claiming that no other nations (especially Muslim nations) should ever have this right.  Further, nations labelled as enemies are denied by the US their internationally lawful right to pursue nuclear technology for electricity production.  Yes, Bush is a tyrant.  His policies have led to the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (many civilians), and many others.  He is guilty of war crimes, and should be held accountable for his aggressive, imperialist crimes.  Impeachment, international trial, jail.
564783
Homicidal dicatator? Surely you're not talking about Saddamn Hussein? Don't you remember that Christmas after he invaded, excuse me, visited Kuwaitt with his military? He hung out with the British hostage, excuse me, detainee families? There was that sweet little picture of him with the young boy on his lap. What a happy little face on that child.\n\nI don't know about you, but that's the Saddamn that we libs remember. Maybe if H.W. hadn't started pushing him around in the first place, and then humilated him in that Gulf War, he would have let the weapons inspectors in like he was supposed to and none of W's war would have happened.\n\nHomicidal dictator, indeed!
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Yes!!!! Though he never will be. Bush pulled out of the World Court, I guess because he wanted to try Saddam. The funny thing is we started it when we wanted to try the Nazi's. Don't see Saddam being tried in a world court.\n\nI bet he gets a fair trail in Iraq since early on one of the panel already said he was guilty. And guess what the President Of Iraq is? A KURD!\n\nBush has been tried in the Court of Public Opinion and he should be impeached and thrown out of Washington before he does something else stupid.
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HE STARTED A BOGUS WMD WAR BASED ON LIES IN IRAQ WHICH ABOUT 2500+ TROOPS HAVE DIED IN.\n\nHE OUTTED A CIA AGENTS IDENTITY BY PROXY.\n\nHE SIGNED FASCIST LEGISLATION INTO LAW LIKE THE PATRIOT ACT.  (NOTICE THE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NAME, IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT YOU ARE 'UNPATRIOTIC', VERY CLEVER OF BUSH'S MINIONS TO TITLE IT THAT WAY.)\n\nOVER 2 MILLION MANUFACTURING JOBS HAVE LEFT THIS COUNTRY SINCE BUSH TOOK OVER.\n\nOSAMA, THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY ATTACKED US, WALKS FREE. WHILE SADDAM, WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US FACES EXECUTION.  MY DETRACTORS WILL SAY BUSH 'FREED THE IRAQI PEOPLE'  TO THIS I SAY, WHY THE HELL IS OUR DUTY TO FREE THEM??  I THINK THOSE THAT WANT TO PAY FOR IT SHOULD, BUT LEAVE MY TAXES OUT OF IT!!\n\nBUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.
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this war and Saddam was not worth one penny or one life.if you think about it,Saddam got rid of all his weapons and was complying with all the U.N. sanctions therefore he should have never been attacked.Bush stated he didn't care what the inspectors said he knew there were weapons and would attack any way.2 years later he admitted he was wrong because he was given bad intelligence.so he should be tried for war crimes.too many people have died because of his bad intelligence.
725238
Yes, definitely, we should bring our troops home, if Sadam was the real reason for invading Iraq.  Unfortunately, some of us still believe in our dear president's lie... And if it were about establishing democracy, then we would have done that long ago, in countried like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, China, Egypt, ... you get my point?\n\nWe've opened a can of worm with his sentencing... All over the world, this will be seen as the winner kills the loser; and in doing so, we've killed thousands of innocent Iraqi bystanders ... so I wonder... who's going to be responsible for those later deaths? Shouldn't the perpetrators be tried too?? the US???, oh no, of course not ... it was also Sadam's fault, right???
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Saddam committed his alleged crimes within the boundaries of Iraq and should be subject to Iraqi justice if indeed he is found to be guilty.  I have believed all along that the Iraqi people are the ones that need to handle whatever is to be Saddam's fate.  \n\nIn view of the controversy surrounding the death of Slobodan Milosevic, I am a lot more comfortable that Saddam will receive actual justice and we will not have to worry about this kind of thing putting a cloud over the whole thing.
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No.  All Bush had to do was read one of his fathers essays to know why it was a bad idea.  Even Cheney was against invading Iraq before he was for it.  The war has created more terrorists and terrorism while not dealing with any of the sources of terrorism.\n\n"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq."\n\n    * At the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991
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I would\n\nan oh yeah tweety it wasn't Clinton that screwed this country up it is BUSH, because during bushes time in the office so far, America has spent well over $15 trillion dollars on the Iraqi war alone. AND america fell victim to 3 terrorist attacks and bush didn't do squat to stop them! So its not Clinton it is BUSH!
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We all know that the Bush Administration instructed the Iraqi government to have the verdict and sentence happen just before the election.\n\nHow do we know this?\n\nBecause it's typical of the Bush Administration and because Bush's Liar-in-Chief, Tony Snow (boy, does HE ever have the correct last name), said it's not true.
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Regardless of how he got in there, we have to stand behind the decision.  There might not have been all the reasons stated, but they did find enriched uranium there, and other signs of helping terrorism.  We ousted a dictator by the majority of Iraq's request.  Else we wouldn't have gone in.\nSaddam should be dead already.  But he is a strong man, and it wouldn't surprise me much if somehow he got free, after all we have done.  \n\nThe military should have just shot him.  He is a mentally ill person with a great deal of power, and all of it is focussed on ruining western civilization as we know it.  If you don't believe that, then I'm not sure what I could say to convince you
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I am on the side to bring everyone home from Iraq. George Bush has really screwed over the American public with his little power struggle. I want him sent to Iraq to fight his own war He lied to us to get us over there. There are no weapons of mass destruction and he is more guilty of killing people now than Sadam is. Perhaps George Bush should be put on trial now for war crimes to Americans for his lie and Iraq people for all the people that lost their lives just trying to live.
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It was not for want of trying that Bush and Blair failed to find a real reason.   To attack Iraq will go down in history as the dumbest move ever.   Sorry - the second dumbest : the first was to take Saddam alive AND PUT HIM ON TRIAL!!   This farcical process matches the one against Slobodan Milosovich at the Hague and is going the same way, with a fairly good- and straight-looking defendant outshining his prosecutors in every way, just as Milosovich did at the Hague, and Goring and Streicher did at Nuremberg (another kangaroo court).
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I disagree with knowsigns... that was one mistake clinton made, but what about the mistakes Buh has made? I'm a New Yorker and was deeply affected by the 9/11 tragedy. What did Bush do about that tragedy? Invade the privacy of millions of Americans  right? What should he have done? If you read Time magazine you would've read a punchline about how some director is making a movie about the search for osama bin laden, it's 300 hours long with no ending. That is precisely the kind of search President Bush led. I am oly 12 and you cannot guess how strong the deep contempt for the failed capture of Osama Bin Laden is. During that search he went off into Iraq, called it operation Iraqi Liberation, or: O.I.L. What did he want? the destroyer of America in jail, or oil? He didn't even need oil then. I know what people will say that he didn't do it for oil, but how sure can you be? My theory about why he changed Operation Iraqi Liberation's name was because OPEC told him you can't have our oil. He didn't want to look stupid that's why he changed the name! In my point of view Bush is the worst president we possibly could have at times like this when theres a war being waged in Iraq!! I'm only 12 years old and i feel this way, call me an anger bomb just waiting to explode, but i would say some very "colorful" things about our dear president if i didn't have faith in the Americans that trusted him.