Roughrider50 wrote:
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> > The BUM!!!
> >
> > I'd have rather seen him in front of a firing squad!
> >
> > Oh well.
> >
> > Andy
>
>
> Why? I'm sure 6 ragheads(their best shots) can shoot accurately enough to
> off an old man with very little pain or suffering. The Iraqis have a lot of
> experience with firing squads. Hanging now that's a different matter. How
> many over there have the expertise to do it properly? Done improperly at
> worst his head could separate from his body making a gruesome, albeit
> entertaining, display........at best his neck wouldn't snap cleanly & he
> would experience several minutes of profound agony while he slowly
> strangled, doing the "crappy flop". A gruesome, albeit entertaining display
> also. I say"let him swing"
>

An eye for n eye makes the whole world blind, said Mahatma Gandhi.

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>
> --
> "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
> degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
> worth war is worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to
> fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a
> miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so
> by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill

You must be happy about those Iraqi orphans, then. What did they do to
US or anyone to suffer like that?

Only evil people justify wars as the quotation you gave above. War is
necessry sometimes but "war for oil" is not a just war.