"This is the place where Saddam made people disappear," "Most were arrested on charges ranging from criticizing the Iraqi leader to cooperating with the United States." "Only a few walked out of the jails alive." "I was beaten, refrigerated naked and put underground for one year because I was a Shiite and Saddam is a Sunni," "Under Saddam, there were no rights of appeal," "I begged them to stop as they beat me. It only inspired them to beat me harder." "interrogators regularly used pliers to remove men's teeth, electric prods to shock men's genitals and drills to cut holes in their ankles." "I have seen interrogators break the heads of men with baseball bats, pour salt into wounds and rape wives in front of their husbands," "a Kuwaiti soldier, who had been captured during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, being forced to sit on a broken Pepsi bottle. The man was removed from the bottle only after it filled up with his blood" "Under Saddam, you were found guilty whether or not there was any evidence against you." "Saddam may be gone, but his final act was to murder more of his own people," Some will miss you Saddam.
Yeah Iraq is so much better since US occupation: http://vcnv.org/iraq-health-and-infrastructure-digest-september-30-2006-part-two
This is the first trial I've ever known of in which the sentence was announced before the verdict. The verdict is expected on Thursday, but since that's after the elections, they had to jump ahead to sentencing.
Yea saddam was great!!...I dont care if our leaders are pieces of shit, the sins of our country do no atone for the sins of saddam.
Some of his cohorts from the 80s should be put on trial along with him, such as special envoy to Saddam, Rummy. .
Whacky your such a shill...of course Saddam is a bad guy but much worse, high level criminals work above him, we need to keep him alive so he can testify as to who gave him his weapons and orders.
You are right. Who did give him his weapons? We should also find out who ordered him to torture his own people for little or no reason. Who ordered him to immerse people in acid and boiling water. Drill holes into their bones. Smash their heads with baseball bats. Literally beat them to death. Rip their teeth out with pliers. Rape women. Oh yeah, making an accusation such as the US sold weapons to Iraq, should require some specificity. Example. Did the US Department of Defense give or sell chemical or biological agents or precursors and or dual use equipment to the Iraq government for the purpose of a chemical or biological weapons program? Or did a private US company sell the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education equipment for use and testing in the various Universities in Iraq? There is no doubt that American and British equipment and technology assisted in the creation of Iraq WMD programs, but if we are going to talk about this we should talk fact. Much of this information can be found in a 1992 Senate Oversight Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. I don't have time to persue information in this report but I do recall a significant number of something like 700+ approved exports. We should also discuss the relevance of who provided the weapons or technology, what manner Iraq used that technology, and what bearing the United Nations resolutions on disarmament have on the situation.
Actually it was Halliburton and their European wing Qinetiq These are well documented deals going back to the late 80's. Though you will have to look in your governments records to find the deals - in Britain we have to pay to get that stuff - if it can be found where the records are kept Incidentally - John Major is now a big player at Qinetic (used to be a prime minister of UK)
