The Chilcot Report

raduv1

Seriously IG, can we have that in English?

IronGiant

Yes Captain . Hail Hydra.

raduv1

Really?
Greek Mythology, when you cut the head off a Hydra, then more grow back.

IronGiant

Danm , I'm sooooooo low brow . I can but sit back and Marvel .

fluxo

It featured most recently in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, but more notably in Disney's Hercules, I assumed it was common knowledge

deantown

Not to mention medusa.

raduv1

Blair doesn't fool me with his whisper voice and near to tears speech. He is a liar and should be brought to account for his actions. I really don't know how he sleeps at night. He doesn't even come across as sincere when he is talking, it's all an act and he has had a long time to practice it.

fluxo

It's common knowledge now that you have no taste in films when you could of just picked Jason and the Argonauts  .

alan280170

Correct in so many ways, yeah Saddam wasn't the best ruler, but I'll be 90% of Iraq with hindsight would rather he be in power and the status quo was left than the god awful mess that we left.

Where is the stats for that quote, I do not believe it and most educated Americans and Iraq/Aghan war vets certainly know that's not true.

True, True, false they died for a lie, for lots of families is the tragedy.

Yep I'm sure lots of Iraq's look fondly back on Saddam's reign now, thinking yeah he was a nutter, just not a complete religious nutter. We had food, water, didn't have to worry about VBIED's etc. Okay we may end up getting tortured, but that's like a 0.0001% chance.

I do, as his only god is the greenbacks, money money, money. How to piss him off, make him poor.

fluxo

Slight understatement or what? He murdered hundreds of thousands of his own population, started unprovoked wars, used nerve gas indiscriminately on civilians, etc. Under his rule of terror people lived in constant fear of detention, torture and execution.

Quote:

To Stalin's methods of arbitrary arrests and forced confessions, Saddam has added an element of sadism: the torture of children to extract information from their parents.

In northern Iraq -- the only place in the country where people can speak relatively freely -- Mr. Sweeney interviewed several people who had direct experience of child torture. He also met one of the victims -- a four-year-old girl, the daughter of a man who had worked for Saddam's psychopathic son Uday. When the man fell under suspicion, he fled to the Kurdish safe haven in the north. The police came for his wife and tortured her to reveal his whereabouts; when she didn't break, they took his daughter and crushed her feet. She was 2 then. Today, she wears metal braces on her legs, and can only hobble.

Source: Saddam's chambers of horrors

So, yes, not exactly the best ruler.