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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Given that we now can suspect there were plans to try Charles Taylor in the US if the ICC didnt find him guilty... how seriously can we take it, other than as a Western tool to force compliance to Western ideals/trade from poorer countries?
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What do you mean by "Western ideals"?
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Originally Posted by chinese crested
Bush and Blair took us into an illegal war and are responsible for so many deaths - for oil. Purely greed. Oil companies got rich, and a lot of youngsters got a six foot plot - which their families have to pay for.
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I am completely ignorant as to international corporate interest in Iraq and so am unaware of any oil companies profiting from the war in Iraq, though I am familiar with the "blood for oil" rhetoric. Who has profited, and in what way? Also, who are these "youngsters" that you are referring to?
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Originally Posted by chinese crested
If we were going anywhere, it should have been to get Mugabe. I felt we had more of a duty to those people whos lives were taken or destroyed.
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Given all of the atrocities committed by local governments in former British protectorates/mandates/colonies in the MENA/SSA, why specifically Mugabe/Zimbabwe?
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Originally Posted by chinese crested
Saddam - wasnt he an american project in his youth? It seems to suit politicians to put these buggers in power.
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Saddam put himself in power. While the US indirectly provided him with weapons in response to the '79 Iranian revolution, it was because he was considered the lesser of two evils - never a friend. I don't know what you mean by "project".