DEAD IRAQI JOKE THREAD!

...by Saddam, who was too busy spending all that 'oil for food and medicine' on palaces and WMD. Oh yeah, and at least two Scuds (range 180+ miles), with over double the range they were allowed. But I suppose we will be told to ignore those.

According to some reports they won't have much of a chance to die given the alacrity with which they move to surrender.

You gonna start a 'dead american joke thread' in the interest of

Looks like nuclear reactors aren't the ONLY thing they got from the French

*rimshot*

The sanctions helped Saddam. Whatever the arguments about who is actually to blame for them harming the Iraqi people, they certainly did. In a sense sanctions turned the country into one large refugee camp dependent on the UN. This controlled the population whilst Saddam just carried on as before, but with a weakened population so cowed that internal opposition was virtually impossible. They say an army marches on its stomach, but so does an opposition - and when daily life becomes such a struggle, little time or energy is left to fight the dictator.

Sanctions have been used against Iraq since 1991. But what actually disarmed Saddam was not military action, or sanctions, but the inspections between 1991-98, a fact acknowledged by George Bush Senior.

So the military action we have now has nothing to with disarmament or WMD, but regime change - with disarmament being essentially a side effect.

One then needs to examine why the US govt finds it so important to implement regime change in Iraq, in the Middle East, at this time. I very much doubt that its about humanitarianism or liberation, as least as the prime motive. Not because I feel the US govt is necessarily bad, but simply because that's how international affairs work - one has to look at the real motives rather than the rose tinted stuff one hears in the media. This is true of all global powers. And the US govt simply cannot afford to be the benign policeman for the world, even if it desired too.

So other reasons need to be considered for this adventure, so we can shed light on the real motives for this war, and this manufactured crisis.

How did your tryouts for the Saddam cheerleading squad go? I hope you made the cut.

Doesn't it depend on whose terms? Neville Chamberlain was convinced he had 'peace in our time,' until after Hitler took Poland. Would it have been a good idea had the rest of the world just turned a blind eye and 'maintained the peace?'

*shrug* I think everyone here is aware that Pink Floyd is in all ways but officially disbanded. Do you want this whole newsgroup to fall into atrophy? What else would we communicate about, since most of us know about all we could care to know about Floyd? Maybe I should endlessly quote from 'Amused to Death' instead.

But lacked the nutritous protein.

Well, the first time I read this, I just had to laugh.

And exactly how would that have happened? Should we have just bent over and grabbed the ankles instead? We wouldn't want to kill those non-existent Islamofascists, now would we? bin Laden in a jail cell?

What color is the sky in your world?