Who would like George Bush tried for War crimes?

[Gandalf]

I've not really participated in this thread because I realised I had already done a similar thread previously. But, I see a few responses that have caught my eye.

Amat, I have no idea how Wolfowitz losing his family in the holocaust justifies invading a sovereign state without the backing of the international community. That argument makes no real sense to me. If he was that bothered about such things then maybe he should have become a bigger advocate of Palestinian rights. That would appear more constructive to me rather than invading Iraq and killing over 100,000 civilians. People that would likely be alive today had the invasion not taken place and would have been living better had the absurd Iraqi sanctions not been imposed. Sanctions on Iraq and yet nothing on Israel all these years? Total hypocrisy.

This thread is old news really, but I maintain that these criminals are being allowed to get away with murder and no moral man should allow excuses to be made for them.

I hate Paul Wolfowitz and the Iraq war with a burning passion. I'm just saying, that was indirectly a driving force behind the war. He hated the idea of 'containment' because it was the same one applied to Nazi Germany.

But it wasn't containment as Iraq wasn't actually invading anyone and had long been warded off of Kuwait. When it comes to containment Israel is a far more appropriate example to take the lead on and everyone turns a blind eye. Wolfowitz is full of shit.

The U.S. policy for Iraq under Clinton was 'containment.'

Containment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amat, there is no mention of Iraq in that link and Iraq had nothing to do with so called 'communism' anyway. So, either you are playing games or you are just confused. I stand by my previous arguments. Iraq had nothing to do with so called containment as it simply wasn't expanding anywhere and it was certainly not threatening the so called 'free' West with any alternative ideology.

Wolfowitz is obviously insane if that is what he really believes was happening. Iraq was just another middle east country with serious human rights issues, no different to many other countries in the region. Iraq was preyed upon by America largely because it was convenient to play up Saddam as the great big devil. It helped to deflect attention away from what the current governments in power were doing themselves and also was good for business once the invasion actually went ahead.