Reply #10: Your list is very incomplete.

[scarletwoman]

You want mass graves? Weren't you paying attention when all the mass graves were being dug up just after the invasion? All the footage of weeping kinsmen clutching bags full of the bones of their murdered sons, brothers, fathers, uncles?

Do you know nothing of Saddam's depradations against the "marsh arabs" in the south of Iraq? Where he drained the wetlands, razed the villages, and drove thousands of people out of their homelands and destroyed a culture and way of life that had existed for millennia?

Isn't cultural genocide enough of a crime?

Have you forgotten about the Shia uprising that occurred after the Gulf War when GWH Bush urged the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam? THOUSANDS of Shia were subsequently massacred by Saddam's military -- on Saddam's ORDERS -- when Bush 1 backed off all support for the uprising.

I find it truly offensive that anyone would seek some sort of rehabilitaion for Saddam's reputation. He was a murderous tyrant, there is plenty proof of that.

Just because GW Bush* is a filthy liar and a criminal doesn't mean that Saddam isn't ALSO a despicable thug! All that can be said about Saddam is that he wasn't threat to US. He kept all his mass murdering in his own backyard -- but he IS a mass murderer.

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