The hanging of Saddam Hussein appeared barbaric.
Was this a good approach to strengthen relations with the middle east or was it a very strong message to the middle east??

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It was a strong message to the middle east; don't mess with the oil companies!

Do you think America is in someway responsible for the toppling of the Twin Towers??

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No, our government isn't smart enough to pull something that sophisticated off.

If u had seen the videos all over the net after it happened u would see that his own countrymen hanged him. That's the way they execute over there along with beheading.
Personally I think after the things he did, he got exactly what he deserved. Gassing women and children, that's barbaric.

it was a doppleganger.....wasn't it?

I am already on it. I checked!!

Seemingly my peace loving antics have made me public enemy number one. John Lennon would turn in his grave!!

Somebody told me that an American said he done those awful things!!!!

as ignorant as bushg is
i think u greatly underestimate the sneakyness of the american government

Guess who manufactured the gas and then sold it to him????????

One still cannot tune into a discussion of Iraq without a neo-con bringing up The Gassing of His Own People as a reason to go to war. Yes, it was a terrible thing. I remember the photographs of the bloated bodies of mothers, their arms still wrapped around their dead children. This happened in 1988. So why didn't the United States react then http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/02/08_gassing.html

It was brutal and a sign to all the leaders of the region : if you do not follow the US , you will be next .Tyranny as its best .

It wasnt Iraq who did it!
That's why.
It was just another thing Bush said that was a known lie.

I can prove it too..




I wished I had a dollar for everytime Ive shown this on here.

The only verified Kurdish civilian deaths from chemical weapons occurred in the Iraqi village of Halabja, near the Iran border, where at least several hundred people died from gas poisoning in mid-March, 1988. We know that Iran overran the village and its small garrison of Iraqi troops; what is contested is who was responsible for the deaths--Iran or Iraq--and how large the death toll was.

The best evidence is a 1990 report by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.[2] It concluded that Iran, not Iraq, was the culprit in Halabja. Lead author Stephen Pelletiere, who was the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq throughout the Iran-Iraq war, has described his group's findings:

"The great majority of the victims seen by reporters and other observers who attended the scene were blue in their extremities. That means that they were killed by a blood agent, probably either cyanogens chloride or hydrogen cyanide. Iraq never used and lacked any capacity to produce these chemicals. But the Iranians did deploy them. Therefore the Iranians killed the Kurds."[3]

Pelletiere says the number of dead was in the hundreds, not the thousands claimed by Human Rights Watch and the U.S. administration. To this day, the CIA concurs.[4]

Main article;
http://www.mediamonitors.net/robinmiller10.html#fn2ret

[2]
Blood agents were allegedly responsible for the most
infamous use of chemicals in the war—the killing of Kurds at
Halabjah. Since the Iraqis have no history of using these two
agents-and the Iranians do-we conclude that the Iranians
perpetrated this attack. It is also worth noting that lethal
concentrations of cyanogen are difficult to obtain over an area
target, thus the reports of 5,000 Kurds dead in Halabjah are
suspect.
Marine Corps document FMFRP 3-203, "Lessons Learned: Iran-Iraq War," dated December 10, 1990.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/docs/3203/appb.pdf

[3]
Top US Intel Expert Brands
Tony Blair A Liar Over Iraq
From GLOBE-INTEL
feedback@globe-intel.net

http://www.rense.com/general30/blair.htm

Also,
A War Crime Or an Act of War?
By STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE
Published: January 31, 2003

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E7DD1638F932A05752C0A9659C8B63

and,,,,,you can find the links in the footnotes on the main article,

Roger Trilling, "Fighting Words: The Administration Builds Up Its Pretext for Attacking Iraq," Village Voice, May 1-7, 2002.

Douglas V. Johnson and Stephen C. Pelletiere, "Iraq's Chemical Warfare," The New York Review of Books, November 22, 1990.

[4]

Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002.
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm