Dominic Adams
Was the death of Saddam Hussein justice for the many crimes he was accused of or revenge for those who opposed him?
Regardless of the man’s past wrongs, the manner in which he was allowed to die was a wrong in itself. The cruel taunts and jibes from his captors were met with a dignified response and the decision by the same captors to display their prize on the internet only resulted in the ‘Tyrant’ receiving more sympathy than perhaps planned.
Saddam was no ‘good guy’ but neither is George Bush. Bush’s reckless pursuit of the control of Iraq’s oil fields has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and over 3,000 American soldiers.
Incidentally the reasons for hanging Saddam were nothing to do with 9/11 or Weapons of Mass Destruction but were related to the killings of 148 Shiites in retaliation for an assassination attempt on Saddam in 1982.
If the Americans were so concerned about the killings carried out on behalf of Saddam, why did they wait over twenty years to pursue him?
The killings of the Shiites took place not long after the Iraq-Iran war – the same war that America actively encouraged Saddam to partake in and helped arm his soldiers.
According to Robert Fisk, writing in The Sunday Tribune (31st December 2006) the death of Saddam has closed the chapter on America’s support for Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war. Fisk wrote,
“The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the US gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which presidents do not want the world to remember. Gone now is the man who received the CIA’s help in destroying the Iraqi communist party.”
Fisk claims that America supplied Saddam with the names and addresses of communist party members and that these people were subsequently arrested and killed by Saddam’s soldiers. He goes on to say,
“…the Pentagon was instructed to assist Iraq’s military machine by providing intelligence on the Iranian order of battle.”
Iran claimed that Iraq had first used chemical weapons against their troops on the 13th January 1981, a combination of mustard gas and nerve gas. They claimed the American government had supplied the Iraqis with the components for the gases.
In 1994, a paper prepared for the U.S. Senate, stated that prior to 1985, U.S. companies had sent government-approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq. The Senate report said,
“The United States provided the government of Iraq with ‘dual use’ licensed materials which assisted in the Iraqi development of chemical, biological and missile-system programmes, including chemical warfare agent facility plants.”
It is absolutely clear that George Bush and friends, in other and different circumstances, have supported Saddam when it suited them and now that Saddam has died, the secrets of U.S. involvement in his crimes have died with him.
This can only aid those who wish to promote America as the leader of the ‘Free World’ but I suppose we should not expect anything else from the hypocrites who ‘govern’ the ‘free and democratic world’ today.
Saddam was no angel but neither are the people who acted as Judge, Jury and Executioner.
3 comments:
You are absolutely right!! The U.S is one god damn country that has to be wiped off the face of the earth! The only thing they are interested in is Iraq's oil resources..you should probably check out the U.S based, so called "CONSTITUTION" that has been formulated "for the welfare of the Iraqis". Its a bloody farce!
Now that Saddam is dead, the U.S has but only one job left in Iraq. To make sure that Oil flows to the U.S from Iraq without any glitches. B^@St^rds!!
true
but saddam should still have been executed although not in that manner
Stephen is completely wrong when he said that Saddam should have still been executed. Executing Saddam brought absolutely no good to Iraq and has only added to the violence.
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