Saddam Executed by The US

Sad thing is that people actually think this way.

I think you mean "hanged".

http://www.ericblumrich.com/thanks.html

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everybody please welcome another man-made martyr into this world! yay!

I guess now Bush can put it on his resume. Hell there is little else he can point to as an accomplishment.

Thanks for this.

McGentrix should watch this, and tell his friends.

What do you think the retaliation will be?

I suspect that whoever we are fighting there (I also suspect that no one in the Pentagon or in the Dept of State knows either) is smart enough to not assisinate bush as that would turn him into a hero (unless they wish to totally humiliate us). So, the logical target for whoever our foe is to murder the next occupant of the WH, certain to be a Democrat, no matter who runs.

I do not think the US will ever recover from this war and the execution of Saddam in terms of influence and status.

This presentation is brilliantly accurate and instructional just up to the point of 9-11 and then turns into just another bullshit Michael-Moorish propoganda film with a disappointing ending.

The freedom of information act, along with the willingness for democrats to leak classified information about republican presidents to the media have enabled much of the facts in this presentation, BF.

The ugly nature of assasination, poor judgement calls in 20-20 hindsight and switchings of alliances has been a staple of world history since man invented the wheel. While the instructional detail and chronology of the BEGINNING of this presentation documents the chain of events very well, the producer ignores the whole picture. People who don't get the whole picture would offer knee-jerk antiwar and anti-American accolades to this production.

Bush never said that Saddam was connected to 9-11. 9-11 was never used as a "pretense" to start the war with Iraq (Operations Freedom & Enduring Freedom).

We are now allies with the Japanese. What would that have looked like between 1939-1944? We trade and vote along with the Germans in the U.N., again, what would that have looked like a little over sixty years ago or in 1917?

The fact that the U.S. gave chemical and biological weapons technology to a vicious assassin turned national leader is a fact that America's conscience must grapple with.

The one thing that has not changed and is back in our faces is the Iran problem. I'm sure that Mr. Blumrich will have field day with that.

Re: Saddam Executed by The US

Apparently, anton, so can much of the Iraqui population that Saddam oppressed and ruled over, for the past thirty years. They're celebrating, anton.

It never ceases to amaze me how people who obviously have brains enough to post don't have the brains to think about their usage of the word "imperialism".

Does Iraq now belong to the U.S.? Do we now have posession of Iraq's oil? Do we now own all passage and other rights previously owned by Iraq? Has Iraq become a territorial annex of the United States? Has Iraq become a new American state?

Honestly, there is so much to talk about, but the commentary here couldn't be any sillier or childish.

The following is an extract from CBS News March 11th 2006

(CBS) In the aftermath of Sept. 11, President Bush ordered his then top anti-terrorism adviser to look for a link between Iraq and the attacks, despite being told there didn't seem to be one.

Bush certainly made every effort to accuse Iraq of being part of the 9/11 attack.
Far from making the United States a safer place he, Bush, has made it a much greater target for terrorism; I personally once admired and respected the US but since the Bush regime instigated the so called war on terror and invaded the sovereign state of Iraq I see this administration for what it is, a greater threat to world peace than North Korea, Iran or any so called terrorist organization; you can defend him however you like but it won't change the opinion of the majority of the peace loving people around the world … The US is a rogue country, it should be shunned and isolated by the rest of the world … they have reintroduced the barbaric practice of torture to the civilized world, a practice that achieves nothing but fear, agony, humiliation and dehumanization … If you don't believe that let me torture you and within a day I will have you confessing to being a member of an Islamic sleeper cell in the US.

Give the world back the United States we once admired and respected!

Top Iraqi source: U.S. tried to delay execution

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. officials reportedly tried to delay last week's execution of Saddam Hussein, fearing it would fuel perceptions the death of the former Iraqi dictator was more about Shiite retribution and less about justice.

Those fears seemed borne out by an amateur recording of Hussein's last moments.

It was a caution that fell on deaf ears, however, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, was determined to put Hussein to death before the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday.

The holiday began at sunrise Saturday for Iraqi Sunnis on Sunday for Shiites.

Hussein, a Sunni, was executed 6 a.m. Saturday (10 p.m. Friday ET). (Watch Iraqis pass around footage of execution Video)
Official: U.S. wanted to wait two weeks

By midday Friday, amid reports and public denials that the United States had given Iraqis custody of Hussein, American officials were talking privately with al-Maliki, according to a member of the Iraqi parliament close to the prime minister.

At one point, the parliament member said, a top U.S. official suggested a delay of two weeks.

Al-Maliki and his aides rejected that, the Iraqi official said, citing security concerns and rumors of possible violence swirling around the capital. (Watch what transpired in the days before the execution Video)

Meanwhile, the Iraqi official said, the Americans asked for written documentation to make sure the execution was legal under the Iraqi constitution.

There was one final hurdle: Would President Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd who opposes the death penalty, object to the execution?

A phone call later Friday between al-Maliki and the president ended with a decision that Talabani's signature was not needed.

No explanation for the decision was given.

Late Friday night, the parliament member told CNN, top U.S. officials met with al-Maliki's deputies to work out when the handover should take place, along with other logistical arrangements.

At that point, Iraqi officials told the media that al-Maliki had signed the last crucial document.

If the Iraqi people -- on their own and without the aid of the US -- rose up against Saddam and captured and beat him to death as the Italians beat Moussilini, then his would have been a just death. As it was, the US was the instrument of his assisination.