Im sorry you supported the armed stuggle against the British army in Ireland, are we talking about the Easter rising or the IRA in Northern Ireland where they targeted civillains and unarmed military?
1. Could not care less what you think about my service.
2. I do not hold contempt for courts only mock trials from countries who had no involvment in the conflict and hold no bearing,
3. Your comparsion to nazi CC guard was one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. You realise that soldiers like me spent most of our time policing the local population and protecting them from the Mahdi and other groups who actively targeted them and us.
4. "That is not saying Iraq under Saddam was great, but it was hardly worse"....In 2002, a resolution sponsored by the European Union was adopted by the Commission for Human Rights, which stated that there had been no improvement in the human rights crisis in Iraq. Full political participation at the national level was only given to members of the Ba'ath Party, about 8% of the population. Halabja poison gas attack, the Anfal campaign, when we invaded we found thousands of mass grave which are still being uncovered now.
5. The Shi'ites and groups like it treated us like liberators.
6. Dont talk to me about not understanding the region as from the looks of it you seem to have your head up your ass if you think Iraq was a better place under Saddam.
by the way I could go on all night about the stuff Saddam did to those people
Im sorry you supported the armed stuggle against the British army in Ireland, are we talking about the Easter rising or the IRA in Northern Ireland where they targeted civillains and unarmed military?
Don't be sorry, it was/is a justifiable campaign. I supported the actions of Wolf Tone right up until Pearse. I supported Oglaigh na hEireann during the War of Independence right up until the Good Friday Agreement. I am being vague now, this isn't the thread for it, but I could expand on why I supported the I.R.A and Provo's.
Regarding your attempt to suggest that I support killing citizens, that is nonsense. You have ignored what U.N diplomats called genocide regarding the sanctions your country and America engaged in in Iraq. And just as another example, you ignored what Clinton did with the Kurds saying, basically, you didn't care because you were not American. Yet, I guarantee, if the Kurds in Turkey attacked America over what happened, you'd call them terrorists.
The British started the war long ago in Ireland. After partition, Unionist violence and sectarianism brought the crown forces back to Ireland. The actions of the British army then lead to the numbers of the I.R.A swelling exponentially - internment without trial, bloody Sunday, etc - up until then, the I.R.A had very few members and were genuinely hated in Belfast and Derry because they were no where to be found when RUC and B special animals attacked innocent protesters or when the British army intimidated them, among other things. I.R.A= I RAN AWAY suddenly appeared everywhere. The inatcion of the I.R.A lead to the split in 69 and the formation of the Provisional I.R.A, did not even start off wanting the Brit's out, they had certain demands, but the British army's capitulation to Unionist terror, as always, even fueled tensions higher.
The same actions happened after 1916. The men of 16 were really hated by the Dublin populace and the people of Dublin spat on the volunteers. It was only when the British introduced internment and executed the leaders of 16 that the I.R.A's number's exploded and people decided to take up armed conflict. During that conflict, many I.R.A men killed their own Irishmen in a bloody war. I don't condone any innocent people being killed at all, even if it were nasty Black and Tan men who burned Cork city center down, but I understand why it happened.
I do not hold contempt for courts only mock trials from countries who had no involvment in the conflict and hold no bearing,
What court is going to put on trial their own President and imprison him for war crimes? How many people went to prison over Iran-Contra? Even those found guilty? I'll tell you how many, none! Only one person spent any time in a jail during the Iran-Contra scandal. Perhaps you can tell me who he was.
Your comparsion to nazi CC guard was one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. You realise that soldiers like me spent most of our time policing the local population and protecting them from the Mahdi and other groups who actively targeted them and us.
I wasn't comparing you to a Nazi, at all. Go back and read what I said.
In 2002, a resolution sponsored by the European Union was adopted by the Commission for Human Rights, which stated that there had been no improvement in the human rights crisis in Iraq. Full political participation at the national level was only given to members of the Ba'ath Party, about 8% of the population. Halabja poison gas attack, the Anfal campaign, when we invaded we found thousands of mass grave which are still being uncovered now.
And that is all terrible. But none of that has anything to do with why you invaded, none at all. Also, a lot of those bodies were probably killed by U.S sold weapons, going back right until 1982. I'm sorry, but you were not sent over there to build a nation and a democracy. That was not a war aim, at all.
You're also ignoring the fact that the sanctions on which your country and America imposed caused the deaths of 500,000 children and destroyed the infratructure, as did your bombings for ten years.
5. The Shi'ites and groups like it treated us like liberators.
The presence of America is one of the main reasons why a civil war is happening. No one, at all, supports what you just said, not one. It was a gargantuan mistake(another one) when the yanks told the world we would be greeted as liberators.
6. Dont talk to me about not understanding the region as from the looks of it you seem to have your head up your ass if you think Iraq was a better place under Saddam.
Evidence where I said that? What, I gave you U.N experts saying that "genocide" was happening under U.N sanctions, which your country engaged in? Funnily enough, going back to the I.R.A, when John Major was hiding under his cabinet desk when mortar missiles were fired at him, he called the I.R.A terrorists, whilst discussing sanctions on Iraq that killed 500,000 people. The irony, eh?
You don't understand the region, at all it seems. You think you're over there to bring democracy. You probably think 9/11 was about hatred of freedom and women in the workplace. If not, please tell me what it was about and why you think that democracy is going to work in the region and why all Islamic parties have come after the Arab Spring and why they are implementing Shari'ah and why Afghanistan and Iraq are also implementing Islamic laws that discriminate against women?
by the way I could go on all night about the stuff Saddam did to those people
But I haven't denied anything you said about Saddam being a bad guy, have I? It goes without saying that he was bad. I could go on all night about why 9/11 happened and why Bin Laden's plans are working, brilliantly. But that is another topic.
