To: r9etb; Ditto
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He’s implicated in gassing the Kurds!
42 posted on
08/22/2007 2:23:07 PM PDT by
nuconvert
("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
To: nuconvert
IF there is any veracity at all to this, almost certainly in order for it to work, Al Douri and all of his men are going to need to be given clemency for all the crimes that they committed.
I understand that this idea is probably sickening to many of us, but it's something that we're probably going to have to learn to live with.
46 posted on
08/22/2007 2:27:12 PM PDT by
jpl
(Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
To: nuconvert
He’s implicated in gassing the Kurds! Hirohito was implicated in far worse.
53 posted on
08/22/2007 2:31:15 PM PDT by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: nuconvert
I fully realize what crimes he's guilty of committing.
The question for you is: if by leaving him alive you can possibly win the war, is it worth doing so?
I give it a provisional "yes," assuming that al-Douri's own ambitions can be curbed. The real world is not necessarily neat and clean -- sometimes ugly trades are required, and this may be one of them.
54 posted on
08/22/2007 2:31:38 PM PDT by
r9etb
To: nuconvert
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s disappeared at some point in the next couple of years. So he gives up the insurgency, but he still has a LOT of enemies from his old glory days.
59 posted on
08/22/2007 2:36:41 PM PDT by
Future Snake Eater
(You think it's so easy? Come on over and try it...)
To: nuconvert
He’s implicated in gassing the Kurds!
So was Saddam, which didn't stop us from cozying to him for several more years, which we thought was to our benefit. We've had worse bedfellows in the world of realpolitik.
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