Like it or not, to some Iraqis, Saddam is still as impressive as ever.
However wacko he is in his thinking, he has certainly been true to himself. (Yea, to thine ownself be true...) LOL!
According to Iraqi exiles and Iraqis and the western media, Saddam committed unspeakable crimes and exhibited genocidal tendencies.
But, as the media has a way of sensationalizing things in order to sell more news and to demonize political enemies, and also a way of keeping them from view at times, it will be interesting to see the truth as the trial progresses in the near future (provided the truth is freely available, as is, to the public.) Then
we will begin to know to what extent past reports were true, slanted or falsified. I say this as we have been told a niagara of lies by the "Bushies" and the Brits for quite a while.
IMHO, the trial is going to be interesting for another reason. The US at one time regarded Saddam as a stabilizing force in the Middle East and supplied him with WMD (poison gas) to be used against his enemies. (Go ask Rumsfeld about it.)
By the way, the use of poison gas in Iraq is not something new. Way back in the 1920s, the Brits had used poison gas against Iraqis. (Was that attempted genocide? Was justice done to those who used the poison gas?) According to Winston Churchill at the time it was OK to use it because the Iraqis were a "sub-human" species. To be sure, the Brits had set a very bad example. |
