Posted on 01/31/2009 12:41:41 PM PST by STARWISE
One of the most brutal totalitarian dictatorships in modern history defeated by the United States of America
Saddam Hussein is reponsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people, by some accounts as many as 2 million.
Many were brutally tortured in his prisons. Some 200,000 Iraqi Kurds were gassed by Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Another 60,000 Kuwaitis were tortured, raped and killed during the year-long occupation by Saddam's forces.
An estimated 500,000 southern Iraqis, mostly Shi'ite were gunned down, and hung in the streets after the first Persian Gulf War.
Now today, as the BBC reports, Post-Saddam, the Iraqis are holding peaceful elections nationwide.
"Iraqis are electing new provincial councils in the first nationwide vote in four years, with the Sunni minority expected to turn out in strength. After a slow start, correspondents said voting was brisk, including among Sunni Muslims, who largely boycotted the last elections."
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5 years after the US Liberation of 35 million Iraqis
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Ed Morrisey, HotAir.com Editor,
in "Iraqis go to the polls," comments:
"a festive mood has broken out in Iraq... This is what victory looks like."
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All thanks to former United States President George W. Bush.
"Right you are Chuck.
George Bush can sleep well at night, as he lays his head on his pillow in Crawford, knowing that he is responsible for the liberation of 60 million people from brutal totalitarian repression in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His foreign policy achievements are nothing short of Churchillian."
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What an incredible day. All Bush's fault! And our incredibly courageous and intrepid military and intel agencies, civilian employees, government contractors and sane Iraqis!
No Thanks to Lyndon Baines Obama
Pray for W and Our Troops
~~PING!
You got that right. I remember the shame of the Carter years when the rest of the world ridiculed us. I fear these next four years will be much, much worse.
Thank you, STARWISE! :-)
Thank you, STARWISE! :-)
All the liberal media pundits claimed that this election would never happen and that a civil war as a sure bet.
Screw them!
Will the post war happy Iraq people get as much press coverage as the giant shoe?
“W”’s legacy!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Yes, Thank you President Bush!
We should use the purple finger technique here.
Thank you for the Ping, Starwise! Our President will Go Down in the History Books as a Great and Good Man, in Spite of the Efforts of the Lamestream Media to Turn as Many People as Possible Against him. God Bless our President Always!
Thank you for this post. I miss our President.
Pray for W and our Troops!
Beautiful news! Let’s BUMP it up a bit so that more people can see what the MSM and the Big 0 don’t want us to know.
If Saddam were still in power, the number of his victims in the past 6 years may have been higher, but of course there is no way to prove that, any more than to ascertain how many lives were saved by the use of the atomic bombs in 1945.
Thank you President Bush, and thank you STARWISE for the ping.
“We should use the purple finger technique here.”
Thought the same thing....but....ok, this will be gross...but, bet some far out lib group would pay people to cut off their fingers so they could vote twice....ewwww, sorry but I put nothing past the whackos
I wonder what the “Nuke Mecca” crowd thinks about this? Assuming they think.
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