Eldon >Saddam Hussein is an evil man. He has killed over 1 million of his own people in the last decade.. Like Hitler, there is only one option in dealing with Hussein. Take him out of his position of power with whatever force is necessary.
I have just come upon this article by Jude Wanniski which addresses this very aspect.
polyconomics.com
>>>Saddam Did Not Commit Genocide!
.... I have been arguing for the last two years that I did not agree with those who have been advising the President that Saddam Hussein is a mass murderer, an Iraqi Hitler who committed genocide by having his army kill Iraqi Kurds during the war with Iran and in its immediate aftermath. I have based much of my case on the reports of the U.S. Army War College that were published in 1990 and on contemporaneous newspaper accounts.
The good news is that the New York Times last week ran a major op-ed by the team leader of the War College reports, Dr. Stephen Pelletiere, after spending considerable time vetting his arguments and finding them to be authoritative.
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I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam Hussein. He has much to answer for in the area of human rights abuses. But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for invading Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them.
Perhaps the strongest argument left for taking us to war quickly is that Saddam Hussein has committed human rights atrocities against his people. And the most dramatic case are the accusations about Halabja.
Before we go to war over Halabja, the administration owes the American people the full facts. And if it has other examples of Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, it must show that they were not pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who died fighting alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Until Washington gives us proof of Saddam Hussein's supposed atrocities, why are we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?<<<
Maybe this answers the question. Just two days after 9-11, before any evidence had surfaced as to who was behind it, JINSA was already pointing fingers at Iraq!
jinsa.org
>>>A long investigation to prove Osama Bin Laden's guilt with prosecutorial certainty is entirely unnecessary. He is guilty in word and deed. His history is the source of his culpability. The same holds true for Saddam Hussein. Our actions in the past certainly were not forceful enough, and now we must seize the opportunity to alter this pattern of passivity.
In response to the attack on September 11, 2001 JINSA calls on the United States to:
Halt all US purchases of Iraqi oil under the UN Oil for Food Program and to provide all necessary support to the Iraq National Congress, including direct American military support, to effect a regime change in Iraq.<<< |
