Sunday, October 15, 2006
What is up with the Saddam Hussein trial?
It's being reported that the new judge in the case has decided to render a verdict against Saddam Hussein in three weeks and will be issuing sentences as well at that time. Why three weeks? Is the judge coinciding this trial with the mid-term election here in November? I just find it to be a little strange.
Saddam Hussein is on trial now for crimes against humanity against 148 Kurds back in the 1980's. A hundred and forty eight people were killed and Saddam Hussein deserved to have his country invaded by George W. Bush on nothing but a pack of lies? What else was happening during the 1980's? Oh yeah, that's right. The Iran/Iraq war was happening during this time and for the past 6 years (and during the 1990's) we heard the GOPers of this country say that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands? Where is the proof that the mass graves found in Iraq are not the result of this 8 year war? Where is the proof that Saddam Hussein systematically killed these people?
I believe Saddam Hussein did kill the 148 Kurds after they rose up against him (and he used the chemical weapons that Reagan/Bush Sr. gave him during that time too), but don't you think if the right wingers of our country, who have destroyed Hussein's country and who have taken him out of power, were really doing this because he slaughtered hundreds of thousands, don't you think he should be on trial for that...and not for the 148? I do. Not that I think Saddam Hussein is the best thing since sliced bread, but I think if America wants to look like a rational country, I think it would look better if Saddam Hussein was facing a death sentence because he murdered hundreds of thousands of people and not just 148!!
( Jim Jones brainwashed 900 people to kill themselves, the Green River killer murdered 49 prostitutes, and Ted Bundy it is suspected that he murdered in cold blood over 100 women......horrific crimes, yes, but killing 300-500,000 is MUCH MUCH WORSE and is war crimes or crimes against humanity however you want to label it!)
My point is...I hope the Bush Pigs haven't murdered over 600,000 Iraqis after illegally invading their country because Saddam Hussein gassed 148 Kurds and they're letting the 'hundreds of thousands' that Saddam is believed to have murdered fly. It doesn't make sense to me and now that the judge seems to be planning the end of this trial around the same time Americans will be heading to the polls, it makes my blood boil and it makes me think the whole trial is just a charade.
I'm embarrassed and ashamed once again. If Saddam did indeed murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, I want real proof of it. I don't want to see pictures of graves along side roads or in dumps. I want to see scientific research concluding that the people in those graves died of either war type injuries or by execution as the right wingers have exclaimed Saddam did.
The Iraqis don't bury their dead like we bury our dead. What if we learned that these mass graves are just cemetaries and not areas where crimes against humanity were committed?
Just a thought...
Saddam Hussein is on trial now for crimes against humanity against 148 Kurds back in the 1980's. A hundred and forty eight people were killed and Saddam Hussein deserved to have his country invaded by George W. Bush on nothing but a pack of lies? What else was happening during the 1980's? Oh yeah, that's right. The Iran/Iraq war was happening during this time and for the past 6 years (and during the 1990's) we heard the GOPers of this country say that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands? Where is the proof that the mass graves found in Iraq are not the result of this 8 year war? Where is the proof that Saddam Hussein systematically killed these people?
I believe Saddam Hussein did kill the 148 Kurds after they rose up against him (and he used the chemical weapons that Reagan/Bush Sr. gave him during that time too), but don't you think if the right wingers of our country, who have destroyed Hussein's country and who have taken him out of power, were really doing this because he slaughtered hundreds of thousands, don't you think he should be on trial for that...and not for the 148? I do. Not that I think Saddam Hussein is the best thing since sliced bread, but I think if America wants to look like a rational country, I think it would look better if Saddam Hussein was facing a death sentence because he murdered hundreds of thousands of people and not just 148!!
( Jim Jones brainwashed 900 people to kill themselves, the Green River killer murdered 49 prostitutes, and Ted Bundy it is suspected that he murdered in cold blood over 100 women......horrific crimes, yes, but killing 300-500,000 is MUCH MUCH WORSE and is war crimes or crimes against humanity however you want to label it!)
My point is...I hope the Bush Pigs haven't murdered over 600,000 Iraqis after illegally invading their country because Saddam Hussein gassed 148 Kurds and they're letting the 'hundreds of thousands' that Saddam is believed to have murdered fly. It doesn't make sense to me and now that the judge seems to be planning the end of this trial around the same time Americans will be heading to the polls, it makes my blood boil and it makes me think the whole trial is just a charade.
I'm embarrassed and ashamed once again. If Saddam did indeed murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, I want real proof of it. I don't want to see pictures of graves along side roads or in dumps. I want to see scientific research concluding that the people in those graves died of either war type injuries or by execution as the right wingers have exclaimed Saddam did.
The Iraqis don't bury their dead like we bury our dead. What if we learned that these mass graves are just cemetaries and not areas where crimes against humanity were committed?
Just a thought...
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