[Menydh]

Aptrgangr, you say that you oppose globalisation but you apply here one of the most basic principles upon which globalisation is built. Judging an event and a person from a much different culture on the grounds of your own culture.

Have you bothered with looking at how Arab and Middle East culture is? Saddam wasn't strange to it by any stretch of imagination. In fact he was more of a classic example than anything else.

But no, you insist in judging him with your western mind.

Do not complain when Islamics demand that women in Europe cover themselves with a jihab to avoid provoking men and being raped. You will have lost all right to complain because by judging them by your standards, you are giving them the right to do the same.

You demand that they abide to your view of society and they demand that you abide to theirs. How are you different from each other? You are not.

If Saddam's nationalism looked to you as tribalistic, have you stopped at thinking that tribalism is a characteristic of the Arab identity? Or do you support a globalist view of nationalism whereby all the ethnic/national identities of the world should conform to a western standard?

He was an assassin? What do you know how life is in those countries? So far, since the invasion of Iraq, there have been far more killings than there was during the decades of Saddam's dictatorship. And, do you honestly expect Iraq to become a democratic [western] country in the future? Forget it. Bloodsheds will go on and on because Americans have deprived Iraq of the only possible form of government to keep order there, one where nationalism is defined under the Arab identity which requires that one tribal group rules above the others.

And we have not looked at the reasons why Iraq was invaded.

Allegedly, it was a fight against Islamism. Yet Islamic fundamentalism was persecuted under Saddam's arab-[tribalist-]nationalist regime. You give good evidence of it: "Osama Bin-Laden offered the Americans a volunteer unit to kill Saddam Hussein."

Yes, and Saddam too waged a war against the Islamic fundamentalist regime of the ayatolahs in Iran.

What do you expect the Middle East to become if they have been denied their only way out from Islamic Teocracies? Democracies?

Yes, Saddam may have gone to pray to Mecca.. so what? For God's sake! How does that prove anything against him? Sunnis are Muslims and Mecca is their holy city!!!

Yesterday, three groups of fundamentalists celebrated the execution of Saddam: Iranian Shi'ite fundamentalists, Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalists and Western fundamentalist (aka America).

So, if he did not support Islamic fundamentalism, why was Iraq invaded? Why Iraq and not other countries with other black listed regimes?

Maybe for the control of the most important energy supply, petrol? And, how much more blood will be spilled for the petrol? And you dare to call Saddam Hussein a murderer?



p.s. by the way, I still have to hear you demanding that US political and military leaders be sentenced to death for all the rapes and assassinations committed by the "soldiers" that they have sent and commanded, not only in Iraq.