http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World- ... 5437?f=rss

I wonder if he considers life imprisonment (and for once, that seems to be the actual meaning) 'lucky', considering the alternative

I could have sworn that we (supposedly) went to Iraq precisely to stop the Saddam regime from doing this.

Ah well, chalk one up for humanitarian intervention.

Too true. There's a quote - Neitzche I believe - along the lines of 'be careful when you battle monsters, lest a monster you become'.

Jon

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

But then Nietzsche was a bit weird.

He wasn't in the best of health was he.