[Prost1]

This is an excellent read. I am no fan of AP but I am unfamiliar with this reporter.

This reporter has earned title of Reporter.

A commendable report. Please read.

[dfwgator]

I only wish they had hung Saddam with piano wire.

[Allegra]

The conspirators, he said, were in that very room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar, names of the supposed plotters were read out. As each name was called, secret police led them away. Twenty-two people were executed.

Actually, some of them were shot right there in the assembly room in full view of everyone in attendance. I've seen video footage of it.

Chilling.

[Calpernia]

In two years, with less loss of life than we suffered on 9/11, America has liberated 25 million Iraqis, ended the most heinous tyranny of the 21st Century, inflicted terrible defeats on our terrorist enemies, and created the first democracy in the history of Islam. -- David Horowitz

Thank you Multinational Forces!

[elhombrelibre]

Image:

From the rat hole to the gallows thanks to the American forces and its coalition allies.

[dfwgator]

[SoldierDad]

A rare piece of journalism without any personal bias interjected into the report. Well written, and well read. Thanks.

[Freee-dame]

A commendable report. Please read.

Too bad it doesn't mention the many mass graves revealed when we invaded.

The MSM certainly doesn't want Americans to be aware of just how brutal this man was. MSNBC is showing various pictures of Sadaam with his followers. CNN is having a discussion of the unfairness of the trial. Only Fox is showing some of the pictures of the Iraqi people as they found their loved ones' remains in the mass graves. It is so discouraging.

[yoe]

Please take a minute and thank this tireless President via Fax or e-mail for his foresight and determination to rid the world of Saddam and his sons.

FAX: 202-456-2461
President George W. Bush:
president@whitehouse.gov

Never in modern history have such an evil father and his sons done such barbaric things to their own people and gotten away with it for so long. Uday and Qusay were raised to be cruel beyond belief by their father Saddam. Iraq and the world are undoubtedly far better off with the demise of these living devils.

Thank every soldier you meet on the street for their courage and sacrifice. Islam as it stands today and tomorrow must accept its part in the horror these three people perpetrated on the innocent for they were of that faith and used it for excuses to torture whom ever they pleased.

The Human Rights Council of the United Nations did absolutely nothing – Gitmo and Abu Ghraib became their focus so the world would blame President Bush for freeing a tortured nation….the obvious question is WHY. Why are so many still unwilling to admit that shredding a living human in a giant paper shredder or burning a person alive with acid for amusement not worthy of the Human Rights Council or the New York Times or Ted Kennedy or Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan. Why are they so opposed to freeing Iraq of this unimaginable tyranny?

Thank You President Bush for understanding what so many do not.

[KoRn]

"This reporter has earned title of Reporter."

Very true. A very well written and accurate summary.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Saddam might be gone but his brutal legacy will not be gone any time soon.

[Freee-dame]

The following is from today's CNN.com: Notice the use of the words "tucked away" and the "many people say" On December 13, 2003, coalition forces found Hussein tucked away in an underground bunker at a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit. His capture was one of the biggest coalition achievements in what many people say has been an ill-fated, mistake-filled expedition.

[yoe]

The Sept. 11 terror attack on the U.S. focused attention on Saddam as a sponsor of terrorism. His refusal to meet U.N. demands for full disclosure of his illegal weapons program provided a justification for war.

[wireman]

His two sons-in-law were killed on Saddam's orders after they defected to Jordan but returned in 1996 after receiving guarantees of safety.

Were they the two dumbest Iraqis???

They deserved whatever they got. Morons.

[Jaded]

It's certainly a day for surprises.

At the beginning of this war, I was not sure it was the right thing for the US to do. In true FR spirit, I got two books Saddam: King of Terror by Con Coughlin and Rebuilding Babylon by idontremember. After reading both books, the only questions I had were: why was a single Iraq carved out of Persia instead of three separate countries and more importantly why wasn't he removed from power in 1991. One out of two is better than nothing.

[kb2614]

Saddam, who was hanged Saturday....

Alas, Michael Moore dons sackcloth & ashes, then weeps.

[SunkenCiv]

A number of those executed were his idiot co-conspirators in various uprising plots and other political "activists" with whom he did time in Iraqi prisons. At least one shouted their condemnations of him as they were being hauled away.

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Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn	The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein by Sandra MacKey

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[Rahmulus]

I'm not sure if I agree with this statement:

----After the Iranians counterattacked, Saddam turned to the United States, France and Britain for weapons, which those countries gladly sold him to prevent an outright Iranian victory.----

From my understanding that is completely false. According to the Stockholm Institute of Peace Research (http://www.sipri.org/contents/armstrad/atirq_data.html) total arms sales to Iraq (1970-1990) from the US were less than 1%. And most of that 1% is consists of Bell helicopters that were civilian but later fitted with gun turrets by the Iraqis. And the Brits were also less than one percent.

What weapons is he talking about? Mirages I know they had but any US or UK sytems I'm unaware of....