Chemical Aerial Attack by Saddam's Regime, March 1988
Posted on 12/29/2006 9:55:42 PM PST by jdm
Statement of President Bush on the death by hanging of Saddam Hussein, as provided by the White House:
Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial — the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.
Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule. It is a testament to the Iraqi people's resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial. This would not have been possible without the Iraqi people's determination to create a society governed by the rule of law.
Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops. Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the War on Terror.
We are reminded today of how far the Iraqi people have come since the end of Saddam Hussein's rule and that the progress they have made would not have been possible without the continued service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.
Many difficult choices and further sacrifices lie ahead. Yet the safety and security of the American people require that we not relent in ensuring that Iraq's young democracy continues to progress.
I had 102 removed because I forgot to format..
Here is a link to a more current letter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760407/posts
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Letter from a Soldier in Iraq:
Operation Iraqi Children ^ | SSG Michael J. Sanow
Get prepared, because he didn't order the break in. From what I've read and seen since all the hoo-hah over Woodward and Bernstein's work, it was John Dean who ordered the break in, and for purely personal reasons. His girlfriend, Mo, who later became his wife, was on a list in a book, in the Dem. Natl Headquarters as an 'escort', and Dean wanted that book, so her name wouldn't be dragged through the muck by the Dems. He sent the Plumbers into the offices to get that book. No other materials were taken, as far as I know, which would have tied the break in to Nixon's re-election, but since it was Dem. headquarters, the media automatically assumed the two were connected.
Nixon's problem was that he covered up Dean's actions, on the mistaken notion that Dean must have been working for Nixon's benefit. Then he just got too far into it, and the damage was done. Nixon resigned because he didn't want the country torn apart, since the media was in their hunter/killer mode.
Again, this is what I've read and heard since. If someone has different info, I'd be happy to be corrected.
Obviously you foolishly get all your news and information from the anti-American MSM. Your posts, which I might add are what's nauseating in this thread, are nothing more than a repeat of their continual lying, hateful propaganda against the President, his administration and all those who support him.
Try taking your blinders off, or seek help for your leftist tunnel vision and do your own research and educate yourself with the truth for a change.
I simply object to "how" the US threw him to the Shiites. One would not exactly define that as an "objective" and "international" court!
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Saddam was tried and executed by Iraqis for crimes commited against Iragis. There is no place for an international court in that process. Would you like an international court to be a higher authority over Israeli court decisions? The UN has not been a very good companion to Israel, has it!
I simply object to "how" the US threw him to the Shiites. One would not exactly define that as an "objective" and "international" court!
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Saddam was tried and executed by Iraqis for crimes commited against Iragis. There is no place for an international court in that process. Would you like an international court to be a higher authority over Israeli court decisions? The UN has not been a very good companion to Israel, has it!
--[ Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule. ]
Or in Nifong's North Carolina..
Or in prosecuting Sandy Burgular..
Or in Impeaching Bill Clinton...
Or in prosecuting murderers in Mexifornia(O.J.)..
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Or in prosecuting the Perp of Chappaquiddick.
--WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? --
Three of them were hanged yesterday.
BTW, can ONE vial of botulinum toxin not kill 1000s of people? How hard is it to conceal it?
You do know about the 300,000 + bodies that have been found in mass graves in Iraq right?
Chemical Aerial Attack by Saddam's Regime, March 1988
Not necessarily. Even though Saddam was unquestionably a brutal dictator who fully deserved death, it could be argued that he was little threat to the US, and that the war in Iraq was thus a mistake.
9 out of 10 dictators love it this way.
Like I said, - far-left lies and propaganda. Posting the same baloney over again is not a refutation - it just further proves my point.
I embrace the above statement. That children were gassed to death was nothing less than genocide. I do not and never have defended Saddam. I do continue to defend the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I do objectively report the news from AP, Reuters and other accredited media and sources such as the Vatican.
I do not whitewash facts such as Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam in 1983 after Saddam murdered Iraqi children. I do not whitewash facts that Dow Chemical sold millions to Saddam in 1988. I do not whitewash facts that Saddam was hunted down like a dog only after 2001.
Lastly, as a soldier and a father, as one who believes in due process and military psychops, Saddam should not have been hanged and afforded the luxury of Martyrdom. For Saddam to annouce in his last words that "Palestine is Arab" and to have those words reinforced by a hanging (he should have rotted in jail) is negligent harm that was created by a few in the US with fallout now being taken on US Troops, Iraqi civilians and Israelis. This is not only my opinion but those of former CIA field agents working in the Middle-East.
Robert Baer of TIME Magazine states: "If the deposed Iraqi leader is executed now, the country's Sunnis will always think of Saddam's rule as a golden era. Now is not the time to execute Saddam Hussein. With Iraq still under coalition occupation, as far as Iraqis are concerned the rope around Saddam's neck will be American. The Shi'a and the Kurds may not care whose rope it is - they just want the man dead and their pound of revenge. But for the Sunni, Saddam will become an instant martyr."
Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, could not be more correct.
I suggest that you now debate with the Pope who stated: "The death penalty is not a natural death. And no one can give death, not even the state." And continue this debate with former CIA agents who know the turf perhaps a bit better than you.
Happy Holidays and a Happy and Safe 2007 to all!
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