Why Don't Protestors Ask for Saddam to Step Down?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Hussein should issue an ultimatum to GWB. Demand for his exile. That will be something.

And that will solve the Iraq problem?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Dashi :
I didn't attend anti-war protests, but from the reports I've seen or heard, you could see "No to war - no to Saddam" signs and such.
However, it is pure form : as already said, protestors have a hope Bush (or their own countries) will listen. They don't hope Saddam will change anything for the sake of the protests.

So by burning American flags, hanging Bush in effigy, and shouting "Regime change in America", they hope to warm Bush's heart and make him change his ways?

[Japher]

American Anti-war Protestor's wouldn't ask Saddam to step down because

a) then their dreams of being a human shield will have been lost
b) they lost his phone number
c) Saddam who?
d) they work for him

Iraqi protestors won't ask him to step down because

a) they are all dead, and have been so since 1 week after he was "elected"
b) they are all dead, and have been so since 1 day after he was "elected"
c) they are all dead, and have been so since 1 day before he was "elected"
d) they are all dead, and have been so since 1 week before he was "elected"

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DaShi


So by burning American flags, hanging Bush in effigy, and shouting "Regime change in America", they hope to warm Bush's heart and make him change his ways?

On the 10 millions protestors, I guess there is some variety. Your propaganda kept the Americans flags burning, my propaganda kept the nice anti war + anti Saddam people. In the end, it doesn't matter : the anti-war protests are a very wide coalition of people with different interests and agenda. That's what you get when the anti-war feeling is nearly unanimous (outside of the US)

[DaShi]

I think they should have at least tried a good cop/bad cop approach on Bush. He'd probably fall for that. When dealing with a redneck, the worst thing is to get mad him. That's just going to start a fight.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Hussein should issue an ultimatum to GWB. Demand for his exile. That will be something.

From Le Monde

L'Irak a rejeté d'avance l'ultimatum américain. "Il n'y a qu'une solution -pour éviter la guerre- c'est le départ du fauteur de guerre numéro un dans le monde" George Bush, a déclaré lundi à la presse le chef de la diplomatie irakienne, Naji Sabri.

Iraq has rejected beforhand the American ultimatum. "There is only one solution to avoid war, the departure of the world's #1 warmonger George Bush", stated Iraqi Foreign minister Naji Sabri to the press monday

[Sava]

I'm not surprised American protestors aren't protesting against a foreign dictator. It's of no use.

This might come to a surprise to some people, but Iraq isn't a democracy. Public opinion doesn't affect Saddam. Western Democracies are affected by public opinion, hence... protesting.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Osweld
Are you calling the monks who commited public suicide during vietnam "terrorist jerks"? Or is it trying to say protesters somehow manage to set themselves on fire. Eitherway, that's an incredibly stupid thing to say.

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Midshipman, your assumption that pacifists are terrorists leaves something to be desire.

He was referring to a rip-off of a Mastercard ad. In the ad it showed a bunch of Middle Easterners burning an American flag. It was not a reference to peaceful protesters, but to groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Don't jump down someone's throat simply because you didn't read their post.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Sava
I'm not surprised American protestors aren't protesting against a foreign dictator. It's of no use.

This might come to a surprise to some people, but Iraq isn't a democracy. Public opinion doesn't affect Saddam. Western Democracies are affected by public opinion, hence... protesting.

Not America. You said so yourself. Bush wasn't elected democratically.

[Sava]

Now you're just being silly...

[DaShi]

Well, you're trying to Sava my thread.

[Sava]

SUCCESS!

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Felch X
Don't jump down someone's throat simply because you didn't read their post.

maybe you should take your own advise. I did read his thread. He did not include the picture. I asked if it was a reference the monks who set thesmelves on fire, or protestors who somehow managed to set themselves on fire by accident.

If you read his post, he is clearly talking about war protestors, not hamas or jihad.

[Jack_www]

Do people hear think that Bush is worse then Saddam??
It seems that the anti war protestors think Saddam is better then Bush, and they seem to be supporting Saddam which I dont get.

The people who think that Bush is worse then Saddam really creak me up.

[Al'Kimiya]

When the war is over the IDF should move in and bulldoze Saddam's palaces for funding terrorist families