The reasons why the capture of Saddam was finally attempted are very different from the reasons that it should of been attempted.
Also some of the conduct has been highly questionable. There are classified documents from wikileaks detailing some of this conduct, most of it extremely shocking. You expect casualties but you do not expect them to take, for one example, the form of a six year old childs face being caved in with a breeze block by the local authorities and the military failing to take any action because of orders they should let them do what they want as long as it did not interfere with their operation.
Or for another a car being puiled over at a military blockade, two passengers getting out hands up and then being riddled with bullets. Their four children survived, blood of their parents fresh on their faces and clothes. One of them was paralysed from the waist down from a stray round. Those responsible got a free pass, The family were compensated and the whole thing swept under the rug. There are many other known classified documents detailing such events, makes you wonder how many weren't discovered at all.
All the more shocking is that many who had committed similar atrocities were given the same treatment. I'm not saying that all soilders were guilty of such conduct but at least afew were and this is how command chose to deal with them. It really says something when you see the statistic that 80% of all the casualties were civilians. In a situation where you're fighting an enemy using guerilla tactics alot of civilian casualties would be understandable but not quite on that scale. Their lives were simply not valued.
Anyway, my point is the war is a poor example. The war needed to be fought, Saddam needed to be taken out but not for the reasons that he was and certainly not with the methods that were used. If you want an example of justice you'd be better off with something else.
Also some of the conduct has been highly questionable. There are classified documents from wikileaks detailing some of this conduct, most of it extremely shocking. You expect casualties but you do not expect them to take, for one example, the form of a six year old childs face being caved in with a breeze block by the local authorities and the military failing to take any action because of orders they should let them do what they want as long as it did not interfere with their operation.
Or for another a car being puiled over at a military blockade, two passengers getting out hands up and then being riddled with bullets. Their four children survived, blood of their parents fresh on their faces and clothes. One of them was paralysed from the waist down from a stray round. Those responsible got a free pass, The family were compensated and the whole thing swept under the rug. There are many other known classified documents detailing such events, makes you wonder how many weren't discovered at all.
All the more shocking is that many who had committed similar atrocities were given the same treatment. I'm not saying that all soilders were guilty of such conduct but at least afew were and this is how command chose to deal with them. It really says something when you see the statistic that 80% of all the casualties were civilians. In a situation where you're fighting an enemy using guerilla tactics alot of civilian casualties would be understandable but not quite on that scale. Their lives were simply not valued.
Anyway, my point is the war is a poor example. The war needed to be fought, Saddam needed to be taken out but not for the reasons that he was and certainly not with the methods that were used. If you want an example of justice you'd be better off with something else.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
