Have we actually FOUND 300,000 actual bodies in Iraq?
Sorry, had the numbers wrong. Blair says its 400,000 bodies!
"We've already discovered just so far the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair on November 20 in London. The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
usaid.gov
If so, why is Saddam only being tried for killing 128 people?
I think its the first of many crimes he is likely to be tried for, but why change the subject? Do you also think that the case needs to be made that Saddam was an unelected authoritarian ruler who made the lives of his subjects significantly worse (rather than improved, as a leader should)? I think that is a given, but some evidently need to be pursuaded of that. He was a brutal, unelected, killer that institutionalized discrimination along ethnic and religious lines, and was hated by the majority of the people he ruled - what's so upsetting about his destruction??
Its not that complicated - if you basically agree, then you should support his forcible removal in the same way you would support the forcible removal of ANY leader that destroys value rather than creates it. |
