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12/29/2006 11:21:58 PM · #51 |
Yeah, but those lines aren't as apropos - or as hilarious to imagine, given the Wizard of Oz connotations and "ding dong the witch is dead" and whatnot. I can envision Saddam singing it - I can envision Saddam in a blue checked dress and ruby slippers - and I can see the violence the Sunnis are going to unleash in retaliation (not that the last bit is funny).
Message edited by author 2006-12-29 23:31:59.
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12/29/2006 11:30:11 PM · #52 |
I'll get you, my pretty; and your little doggie too!
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12/29/2006 11:31:30 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I'll get you, my pretty; and your little doggie too! |
Does that make the American troops equivalent to the flying monkey horde? Cuz that might be kinda cool.
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12/29/2006 11:31:56 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by idnic:
You can't plant me in your penthouse |
Oh yeah?
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12/29/2006 11:33:50 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by idnic:
You can't plant me in your penthouse |
Oh yeah? |
ROFLMAO okay, I stand corrected. :P
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12/30/2006 01:07:24 AM · #56 |
C'mon guy! I can change.
A South Park movie clip of Saddam singing his lovely song!
Saddam-Warning: VERY STRONG LANGUAGE!
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12/30/2006 02:31:17 AM · #57 |
Death is a too easy way out for people like this. I don't like him being hanged.
Rest of his life in a stinking dark cell with nobody to talk to and a videoscreen on for 14 hours (with no remote to change the sound or channel) where they show video of what he did and video of relatives who can swear at him seems like a better plan.
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12/30/2006 04:53:13 AM · #58 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Death is a too easy way out for people like this. I don't like him being hanged.
Rest of his life in a stinking dark cell with nobody to talk to and a videoscreen on for 14 hours (with no remote to change the sound or channel) where they show video of what he did and video of relatives who can swear at him seems like a better plan. |
i concur. torture is much better in this case. |
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12/30/2006 08:27:41 AM · #59 |
Has anybody else noticed that Art Roflmao hasn't posted since before the hanging? What I'm getting at is, could this have always been Sadam's account?
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12/30/2006 08:35:24 AM · #60 |
now you're talking !
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Death is a too easy way out for people like this. I don't like him being hanged.
Rest of his life in a stinking dark cell with nobody to talk to and a videoscreen on for 14 hours (with no remote to change the sound or channel) where they show video of what he did and video of relatives who can swear at him seems like a better plan. |
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12/31/2006 04:21:08 PM · #61 |
| Welcome to the 18th Century. |
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01/01/2007 07:54:57 PM · #62 |
I have no love for Saddam Hussein, but it amazes me how he successful the politically motivated demonisation of the man has been.
What do most people know about SH? That he was a strongarm dictator, who ruthlessly killed political opponents to retain power, fathered a couple of sadistical sons, warred with his neighbours and was overthrown by US might on two occasions.
But what about the rest: he was responsible for universal free healthcare, universal free schooling and the substantive elimination of illiteracy, the mechanisation of agriculture, the modernisation of the Iraq economy, the electrification of the state, the establishment of equal rights for women. For years he was the main opponent of the spread of religious fundamentalism in the ME, fighting Iran and implementing the elimination of sharia law and the establishment of a western legal system. He was supported throughout by the US in these endeavours and earned awards from UNESCO.
So what changed?
There was a failure of communication between the US and Iraq over Iraq's position vis a vis Kuwait, a war, and a general breakdown of relations (combined with a general growth of tension in the area), Iraq was cast as a pariah state and sanctions applied. However, the man is no worse than he was in the 1980s, when the US actively supported him.
As I said, I have no love for SH, but I do not regard him as "evil", nor any more guilty than a dozen or more other current dictators (and thousands in the history of civilisation). I find it odd and a little disturbing that people can be spoon fed politically convenient spin and be so very trusting of their own leadership.
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01/01/2007 08:02:45 PM · #63 |
| You can say just about everything you point out as Sadaam's good points about Stalin. Do you also think Stalin was not an evil man? |
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01/01/2007 08:38:31 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
You can say just about everything you point out as Sadaam's good points about Stalin. Do you also think Stalin was not an evil man? |
I think that it is easy to cast someone as "evil" just because it is politically convenient. I do not agree with Pinochet's worst excesses, but there were as many mourners as protesters when he died. I think that Stalin's policies were generally more objectionable (especially by modern western standards), but this simply throws up the oddity of SH being quite so reviled by quite so many when he is less bad than many others.
Message edited by author 2007-01-01 20:38:54.
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01/01/2007 08:40:05 PM · #65 |
| Well, you know where I stand. There is no evil; there is only political, cultural and religious point of view. |
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