Also, how did the trial of Saddam end?   Anybody remember?

Suspended sentence wasn't it?

It's amazing how the prospect of oil manages to dissolve the calcium in politicians' backbones isn't it? It also affects their skin, this exudes slime. Altogether a very unsavoury combination.

All the snivelling around Gadaffi, was for that and perhaps to try and keep him away from the influence of AQ.

I really don't think that the west come out of this very well - they run the risk of alienating the very people they say they support by banging on about how Gadaffi was killed.

Sodomised with a stick? I really don't care. His henchmen did far worse when they tortured his opponents.

Civilised? Why on earth would you expect this to be that? Let's face it, politicians would do ANYTHING to gain their own ends.

So the fact Dubya and his cronie Bliar supported him speaks for itself - it shows how discerning they are/were. Now the west will be lining up to rebuild the place (payment in barrels of course). You can imagine Cameron/Sarkozy/Obama elbowing each other out of the way to further their own partisan needs (which after all, is their job).

I so hate politics and its purveyors.