Saddam sentenced to death from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
Published by site admin November 5th, 2006 in bernard, politics/world affairs, runningwithbulls.comSaddam sentenced to death from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
Saddam Hussein has been sentanced to death by hanging. He wants to face a military firing squad.
I don’t want to sound cynical, but it comes at just the right time for the US midterm elections.
It is good news that he has been found guilty, and that the families of his victims have gotten justice, but really, does this not make the US court just as bad as he?
I don’t know. Not the nicest thing to wake up to on your birthday. ;(
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It is remarkable that Saddam has been sentenced for a crime he committed in 1982, at a time when the USA was more than eager to provide support to Saddam Hussein’s regime and was complicit in some of his crimes. As usual, this fact has not even been mentioned by our amnesiac media. Donald Rumsfeld, the incarnation of this administration’s moral bankruptcy, went to Baghdad shaking hands with Saddam, on December 20, 1983 (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/).
At that time, Rumsfeld knew that Saddam was a dangerous dictator (contrary to 2003, when he wasn’t dangerous any more). He knew about the 1982 massacre that has now been recognized as a “crime against humanity”. Donald Rumsfeld knew that Saddam had ordered the use of chemical weapons against Iran in breach of the Geneva conventions (contrary to 2003, when Rumsfeld knew exactly that there were no chemical weapons). And he went to Baghdad in 1983, shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, offering him the support of the United States. That’s the story that will be told in the history book.
Wow, thats an interesting picture piglet.
I must say, eventhough I knew Bush and Rummie were aquinted with some of the “gentlemen” from the Middle East, I didn’t know that he had met him.
Well, its a pity that both sides of the story is not told. I must say I don’t have much time for the American media. Now and again I see some pieces on YouTube, etc, and I am bowled over at how one-sided it is.
Its a pity, as I would like to see some of the US. I am not sure when that will happen now.
thanks for the comment.
b.