Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Russia... They're up and running again...

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

* During his reign, Saddam Hussein's executioners murdered over a quarter million Iraqi citizens, 5000 of whom were killed by chemical weapons. Saddam personally executed over a dozen.

* During the 1st Gulf War, Saddam's troops set fire to 700 oil wells, spilling 60 million barrels of oil, and creating an environmental disaster. Over ten million cubic metres of soil was still contaminated as late as 1998. A major groundwater aquifer, two fifths of Kuwait's entire freshwater reserve, remains contaminated to this day. Ten million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf, affecting 1500km of coastline and costing more than $700 million to clean up. During the nine months that the wells burned, average air temperatures fell by 10 degrees C as a result of reduced light from the sun. The costs of environmental damage were estimated at $40 billion.

* The Iraqi Interim government, following Iraqi national law, reopened the Iraqi Special Tribunal over which 5 Iraqi Judges presided. It is the only court of its kind in the 21st century in which crimes against humanity are punished by death.

* This tribunal tried Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid (also known as "Chemical Ali"), former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, former deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and other former senior officials in the deposed Ba'athist regime. Saddam was sentenced to death and, on December 30, 2006, the execution was carried out at an Iraqi army base in Kazimain, a neighborhood of north-east Baghdad.

Ali Hassan al-Majid received five death sentences for genocide, crimes against humanity (specifically willful killing, forced disappearances and extermination), and war crimes (intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population). He was also sentenced to multiple prison terms ranging from seven years to life for other crimes. In the event, al-Majid received 8 death sentences, and was hanged on January 25, 2010.

Taha Yassin Ramadan (a ruthless SOB) was hanged on March 20, 2007.

Tariq Aziz died in prison of heart failure.

"War is hell!"
WTS

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it."
R.E. Lee

Has there ever been a war or even a major battle fought in which no civilians or other non-combatants were killed?
I can think of one.

Is there really such a thing as a surgical weapon that kills only combatants?
Maybe a collateral damage avoidance bomb?

By what standard do you justify your support for and defense of brutal dictators and world class thugs?

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Was the last part directed at me??

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Obviously.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

No...You italicize it like the quotes...Wasn't obvious... Thanks for clarifying...

You consider them thugs...
I consider the US a thug...
Quite a few Western nations are rather thuggish...
I support nationalism...
Not globalism..
It's that simple...

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Text with quotation marks means it is a quote;
text without quotation marks means it is a comment or statement, or, if there is a question mark at the end, a question;
the italics are irrelevant, they simply apply emphasis.

I know you consider "murica" a thug, most often to the exclusion of criticizing, or even recognizing, the thuggery of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and many others - not to mention Germany and Japan.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Lots of thugs...

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

The people who built them.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Being a martyr gets another point of his history book perhaps?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

History is going to lie about Ukraine anyway, just like our media is doing right now.

Ranger7374 Loc: Arizona, 40 miles from the border in the DMZ

I was right Mao China established in 1921. Now you make me sound like the monkey in lion king....wrong again....hehehe

Ranger7374 Loc: Arizona, 40 miles from the border in the DMZ

This before the creation of the UN. Thus, your point about communist china's founding and the UN were totally false.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

https://www.bing.com/search?q=whendidmaoruleoverchina&cvid=c3540008381f4b5c98fb40fd0491e660&aqs=edge..69i57.15163j0j4&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS

Excerpt: "Mao Zedong led communist forces in China through a long revolution beginning in 1927 and ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949. Along with Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mao is considered one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War."

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

nwtk, My understanding is that if more than forty thermonuclear devices went off in the atmosphere, it would cause nuclear winter in which massive death of all plants, and those animals that eat plants, and finally those animals that eat the flesh of herbivores. What kind of question is this. In a thermonuclear war, the survivors will be the unlucky ones.
Nobody wants a full nuclear exchange! Not Zelensky or any body else. My bet is that Zelensky believes that Russia wouldn't do anything that stupid. I think Zelensky is right, but who knows?

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

If that's the case then Britain should have never returned Hong Kong to China since the agreement to lease for 99 years was never made with the Communist government.