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To: Neeka who wrote (192144)	1/8/2007 7:40:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793914

Neeka, you didn't read what I wrote. <Have you read anything about what this man did over the yrs he was supreme dictator?> Yes, I have read all sorts of things, from babies being thrown out of incubators [false story] to umpty million murdered all over the place [perhaps also a Time magazine fantasy, like many of their other stories]. You no doubt knew that Saddam was being tried and was found guilty. But you were obviously not paying attention to his trial. The trial was not for all those things you are thinking of. It was for a particular minor event [minor compared with all the rest of what has been alleged]. <Do you not understand, really, that Lt Calley did something much worse than that for which Saddam was hung? > He wasn't found guilty of invading Iran or for helping Donald Rumsfeld achieve his aims in the mid 1980s when they were working together. Nor for gassing Kurds or Iranians. BTW who sold him all the ammo and gas and weaponized gas and stuff which he used so enthusiastically? Maybe Donald Rumsfeld was there for the golf or to convert to Islam or something. He hadn't been tried for all the other alleged offences. You have perhaps heard the old canard that people are legally innocent until they are actually convicted. When people are hanged, it's for particular convictions, not other things which people didn't like. It seems odd that he was prosecuted for something which seems almost reasonable. When in an existential conflict, following an attempted assassination, people try to get the guilty parties and they are sometimes less than precise about getting ONLY the guilty party. He probably did get the guilty parties, since they were in a fairly small town and he killed the males who might have been involved and almost certainly killed plenty who were in support of the assassination attempt. If I remember rightly, King George I had an assassination attempt against him and King George II's wife and others and I think that King George II had more than a small seeking of revenge against Saddam for that action. I'm sure you know that there has been a LOT of collateral damage in that revenge attack, even in the initial misguided Shock and Awe assault, which missed Saddam but got a lot more. I can see more than a passing resemblance in the two situations. I can also see some resemblance in the actions by the USA troops in Haditha when they tried to get the guilty parties, including not just males, but a child hiding under a bed. Not to mention some guys who unluckily were passing by in a taxi. What do you think the chances are of those soldiers being hanged? Or even getting much more of a punishment than Lt Calley who really got stuck in. So, can you really, really, not see that Lt Calley was guilty of much worse than that for which Saddam was hanged? While some Americans might not give a stuff about gook children in My Lai, or towel-head children in Haditha, other people around the world do. So, when "winning hearts and minds", and support around the world, those little details of American action for some peculiar reason have an effect on the thinking of people outside the USA. Getting all puffy and huffy and saying Saddam did worse, is not really a good point. Comparing oneself to Saddam is not exactly an achievement. Mqurice