Who would we say was the greater War Criminal, Saddam or Milosevic?

[Toots]

Milosevic was found guilty in the International Court of War Crimes. He committed genocide against his own people and mass graves were uncovered containing thousands of bodies. NATO begged the US to help stop this madman. Bush 1 would do nothing and thousands died. Clinton finally agreed to join with NATO to put a stop to the killing. Republicans throughout the land cried foul. America should never be a world police force. Foreign lives were not worth American involvement. What again is the Republican justification for Iraq? How do their quotes from today jibe with their quotes from the nineties?

[tsuki]

1. Bush. eom

[FloridaPat]

2. The justification - lots of oil we don't own.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Saddam

He had a lot longer to do his deeds. If you knew everything they both had done and added up all of the war crimes of Milosevic and those of Saddam, I'm sure Saddam would make Milosevic look like a cheap thug by comparison.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that both of them are sick excuses for human beings. They should both be dragged out into the street, given a few lashings, then fitted with serrated blades and be commanded to fight each other to the death. Or something.

[NebraskaDem]

4. Both

I think both are evil people that deserve whatever punishments they get. I think Milosovich was just more open/public with the killings than Saddam was. His was more hidden and locked away.

[keta11]

5. Both of them practiced

genocide and murdered without mercy but I would have to say Saddam probably killed more people because of his longer tenure.

That does not excuse Dumbya's silly war though, IMO. Iraq was stable and at worst just a police state by 2003. It did not pose any threat to the US.

Clinton's intervention in Eastern Europe was justified because there was an active war going on and the Croats, Bosnians on one side and the Serbs were massacring each other and something needed to be done to bring peace to Europe before it spread into greater Europe.

[kentuck]

6. How many troops died bringing Milosevic to justice?

More ways than one to skin a cat or capture a war criminal.

[tx_dem41]

7. Can't we agree that they were BOTH bad, and move on to

important things?

[AllieB]

8. They were both bad, but Milosevic probably killed more in a shorter

time period. The war only lasted four years. They're still finding graves in the Bosnian countryside. My neighbor lost most of his family in the Bosnian war.

The difference is that the former Yugoslavia had no oil, and the international community joined together to bring Milosevic to justice. The US has taken justice into its own hands and bypassed the normal international channels in order to exact vengeance on a dictator who threatened to kill Bush's daddy. We are not the world's policeman, and it doesn't serve us well in the world to think we are.

[mrfrapp]

9. Milosovic Trial

Milosovic hasn't been found guilty of anything yet. The trial is still ongoing.