DGM wrote:
Using someone's death to try and stoke up an argument on an internet forum is a little bit pathetic.
With you DGM
There is only one man in this world that I truly hate, having been badly betrayed by him. Were he to die, I wouldn't mourn him, but neither would I rejoice in his death - I might take another glass to celebrate that I had been ridded of the horrors of hatred, though.
Nothing is black and white (save Widnes, Hull FC and, for the Exile, Broncos et al). When an absolute ruler (good or bad - and the jury's out on Castro), anywhere in the world, goes after many years (yes, I know his hermano was nominally in charge), the power vacuum is a dangerous thing. What happened after Tito's dictatorship ended? Civil war and pogroms. Ceausescu was bulletted into a wall soon after the revolution. I recall saying to my father (RIP) that that was not a good start for a "liberated country", more a statement of intent by the new rulers.
Saddam was an absolute b@st@rd but did his country improve after he was hanged (to iterate the point of my second paragraph, whilst lots of people spoke of seeing it, I had no desire to see the footage of the hanging)?
No one's death should be a source of joy or celebration, relief I'll accept.
I'll differ on this one, Exile
