Saddam Responsible For 150 Deaths

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Paper Trail Shows Many Were Children. -- headline in LA Daily News (print edition).

(OK, so ten were children -- ten is many if you compare it to one!) :silly:

Gee I'm glad my TAX DOLLARS HAVE BEEN WELL SPENT KILLING 100,000 PEOPLE TO CATCH THIS BEAST WHO KILLED 150!!

Is the sky up? Is grass green? Sometimes it almost seems like the same world in which I grew up...

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "Pot, meet Kettle"

[JohnnyRingo]

2. It's said that this was in reaction to an assasination attempt

After it failed these people were rounded up and trials were short.
I didn't hear there were children involved(?)
Maybe they were older teens?

He still has a way to go to match the Governor of Texas during the 90s for record executions of criminals.

[wtmusic]

3. No doubt it happened

I'm just amazed the paper can even consider this news, in light of the idea that today along probably 150 people will die in Iraq because of our actions.

[hughee99]

5. So only 150 people were executed by the govt.

in Iraq over the 20+ years that Hussein was in charge, and it was all related to a single assasination attempt? I thought there would have been more than that.

[wtmusic]

8. That's the tip of the iceberg

I bet Saddam has killed at least HALF of the number of people who have died/will die because of our little war.

What a monster.

[hughee99]

9. Do we "credit" the deaths from the Iran/Iraq war

or GW1 to him too?

[wtmusic]

10. Yep, that's in there

Our war's only just begun

[librechik]

4. Georigie Hussein has him beat by hundreds of thousands

I bet Saddam feels a little inadequate right now.

[wtmusic]

6. He's probably sadly munching Doritos in his underwear

thinking, "Damn, I wish I was as moral as an American!"

[gatorboy]

7. This was from the 80's, right?

Bush Sr. didn't seem too worried about it at the time when Saddam was on the payroll...

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Didn't Bush kill a 150 too as Texas governor?

[wtmusic]

13. Good point

you can be sure his victims got just as much sympathy as Saddam's

[Bucky]

12. He killed at least 10s of thousands, probably 100s of thousands

He was a true monster. We should have taken him out long before private citizen Rumsfeld sold him that damned mustard gas.

[wtmusic]

14. So now that Dubya is also well into six figures

we have our very own monster, don't we?