Drummond
Senior Member
Breathtakingly dishonest.I say! You must be dreadfully young!..... the level of 'blame game' you'd want to foist on us for our past really depends on just how far into the past you insist upon digging ... doesn't it ? What I truly DO say is that the present generations of people alive cannot be held responsible for things done before any of them were ever born ..But really ....... 'before ANY OF US were born'? I am on the edge of 70 and, well, Tony Blair and Geo. the Bush didn't leave number 10 Washington Street all that long ago. In fact, the same policies are in effect to this day with ... uh ... what are their names now? I wonder ... have you ever heard of a nation called 'Iraq'? How about 'Afghanistan'? No? Neither of them?![]()
I was referring to, and thinking of, the old days of the British Empire ... not the things you're talking about.
George Bush isn't British, and we Brits have had no control over what choices and decisions he came up with. '10 Washington Street' .. ? Where's that ?
As for Tony Blair ... Blair, since you refer to Afghanistan and Iraq, reacted to events on the world stage. Let me ask you in turn .. have you heard of 9/11 ? The attack on America, on 11th September, 2001 ?
If you have -- tell me. Do you think there should've been no countering reaction to that terrorist attack ?
Do you think that the terrorists responsible (Al Qaeda) should never have been attacked, in Afghanistan ? Should they have got away with it ? Should all the terrorist training camps dotted across Afghanistan have been left alone ??
As for Iraq - Saddam, contrary to some PC Leftie escapism, was actually NOT a nice man. He definitely did have a stock of WMD's .. he used one of them to gas the Kurds. He refused to be accountable for WMD stocks, so, ultimately, action had to be taken against his regime. Bush and Blair did the responsible thing and acted, rather than let that 'do they have them or don't they ?' farce continue on indefinitely.
Better to overturn rogue regimes, ones friendly with terrorists and brutal with it .. than bury one's head in the sand and hope the problem will just go away ... yes .. ??
Think Neville Chamberlain. And consider Hitler's behaviour. Tell me that history advises us to be soft on brutal dictators !
Where is anyone saying that Sadaam was a good man ?
He was a monster but he was no threat to us.
If those idiots had gone into Iraq with a proper plan then it might have been justified.
But they didnt. And we are now left to pick up the pieces.
Blair and Bush are war criminals and should be in jail.
If Bush and Blair are 'war criminals', then you must judge Churchill similarly. After all, he had the temerity to tackle Hitler's Reich ... why, how belligerent of him !
Fact is, Tommy, that just for the sake of sheer decency, there are times when rogue monsters have to be taken on and defeated. Sheer humanity demands it.
Saddam was indeed a monster. But you PC Lefties, back in 2003, went out on the streets in your millions to DEFEND his regime from harm, didn't you ? Where was your 'enlightened humanity' when you lot did that ? Did it take a highly convenient hike ?
But if you want to be selfish about it ... consider that Saddam was a friend to terrorists. He did dodgy deals with them. He even bankrolled Hamas, and their own murderous activities. Such a monster, with WMD's (we had no way of establishing what his stocks were, pre-invasion) could've done a deal to release some to terrorists. No responsible nation on earth, empowered to act, could possibly tolerate that state of affairs and do NOTHING about it.
OK - Iraq turned out to be a lot messier than first thought. But at least it became a focus for terrorist groups, meaning that we could tie them up THERE, rather than have them wage their terrorist wars HERE. Think on that, Tommy.