[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Hang Saddam Hussein

[Bill Effros]

Michael,

So good to have you back!  Stick around.  We've missed you.

If no one else measures the boat, I'll go out to Greenwich Point and 
measure mine.

Bill Effros

Michael Meltzer wrote:
> There is a Hitler sorry along the same lines. But he (maybe) shot himself
> first
>
> -mjm
>
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> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Politics: Hang Saddam Hussein
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> So, Herb,
>
> How do you feel about hanging Saddam Hussein?
>
> Some Shiite terrorists tried to assassinate him in this town while Iraq 
> was at war with Iran.  He caught them, tried them, and executed them.
>
> We deposed him.  Caught him.  And handed him over to the terrorists who 
> originally tried to assassinate him.
>
> Now they have decided to execute him for "war crimes".
>
> Is it OK?
>
> Fortunes of war?
>
> Don't piss us off?
>
> Winner's rules?
>
> Bill Effros
>
> Herb Parsons wrote:
>   
>> How so Robert? How is it "backwards"? It IS sad that people must volunteer
>>     
> their lives to defend a nation, but that's the nature of man. Sending those
> men to war should not be a crime in and of itself. Were it so, our
> presidents would have been "criminals" during WWI, WWII, Korea, etc etc etc.
>
>   
>> Like I said, if anyone wants to argue the right and wrong of the war on
>>     
> it's own merits, fine.
>   
>> However; the comparison to other things that are undoubtedly wrong is
>>     
> intellectually dishonest.
>   
>> Sort of the like the guy that is speeding, and complains as he gets the
>>     
> ticket that the policeman should be concentrating on other crimes instead.
>   
>> Herb Parsons
>>
>> S/V O'Jure
>> 1976 O'Day 25
>> Lake Grapevine, N TX
>>
>> S/V Reve de Papa
>> 1971 Coronado 35
>> Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast 
>>
>>   
>>     
>>>>> robert at squirrelhaven.com 11/5/2006 9:13:56 am >>>
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>> Looks like we have some things backward, 
>> don't we, Herb...
>>
>> /Robert
>>
>> Herb Parsons wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Apples and oranges Rummy.
>>>
>>> Perjury is a crime.
>>> Sending thousands to their deaths in a war is not.
>>>
>>> Herb Parsons
>>>     
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