Saddam adviser Tariq Aziz dies in Iraqi prison

Fox News ^ | 6/5/2015

[Smittie]

At least Saddam didn't slaughter Christians and force women to wear burquas. He kept Iran in check as well. The ironic thing is that if we had allowed him to take Saudi Arabia's oil fields like the government claimed was his intentions, we probably would not have been attacked on 9/11. I certainly don't like dictators but the replacements have been far worse for us.

[Romulus]

We are still living with and will not live to see the end of the stomach-churning results of the neocons who exculpated and valorized the war that erased Christianity from the Fertile Crescent.

[wideawake]

Good point.

Only Westerners are autonomous individuals who can freely choose their actions.

The inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent are merely automatons who have no minds and no free will.

"Neocons" and also, I'm sure, Israel are the real problem, not Islamic radicals.

America and Americans are the source of all evil in the world, etc., etc.

[Romulus]

In the real world only the rich and powerful get to have their way. Since the coming of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians have been a disenfranchised minority, doing their best to cope. Your neocon friends did them no favors. They have their own agenda.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This guy didn’t get high up in Saddam’s government by building schools and helping old ladies across the street. You only get that by helping evil. He was high enough in Saddam’s govt. that he could’ve ran at any time and gotten asylum in the states in exchange for information. He was high up enough to know a lot. He played the “I was just a diplomat” and “I’m just an old man” pretty well, it’s sad how many people here at FR are fooled.