on 22-09-2014 03:07 PM
on 23-09-2014 05:29 PM
on 23-09-2014 08:06 PM
@debra9275 wrote:
I remember watching when they took him into a small dark room and hung him. It was unbelievable! & watching them bomb MR Whippy vans claiming they were disguises for WMD's. Much as Saddam was a tyrant, he managed to hold that country together.
If you regard the gassing to death of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja and a further 182,000 killed in the late 1980's during the Anfal campaign as holding the country together, then I guess you are right he did a magnificent job.
on 23-09-2014 08:18 PM
on 23-09-2014 08:56 PM
@kilroy_is_here wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/1373322/Saddams-son-tortured-defeated-foot...
Yep held the country together nicely
Would you say Iraq in a better state now than it was under Saddam Hussein
23-09-2014 08:58 PM - edited 23-09-2014 08:58 PM
yes, he did murder those people & casualty figure for the Iraq war is 500,000
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-war-deaths-survey-2013/
on 23-09-2014 11:24 PM
24-09-2014 01:54 PM - edited 24-09-2014 01:57 PM
@gkam2 wrote:
@debra9275 wrote:
I remember watching when they took him into a small dark room and hung him. It was unbelievable! & watching them bomb MR Whippy vans claiming they were disguises for WMD's. Much as Saddam was a tyrant, he managed to hold that country together.If you regard the gassing to death of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja and a further 182,000 killed in the late 1980's during the Anfal campaign as holding the country together, then I guess you are right he did a magnificent job.
Yes he was a brutal dictator, he was also our friend at the time of gassing to death of 5,000 Kurds in Halabja, and so nobody protested much. He also massacred the marshland Arabs after they tried to overthrows him.. They tried to overthrow him because we told them we will support them if they start the revolution. When somebody starts an armed uprising against a government and loose, they usually do not end well.
Saddam was responsible for death of many people, and torture of many others. Well, we fixed that, didn't we? Remind me, how many people were killed during the "liberation" of Iraq? While we never know exactly, and the figures are disputed, it is in hundreds of thousands. Not to mention that the infrastructure of that country was totally destroyed, poisoned by depleted uranium and oil wells burning for months polluting the air, and after spending billions trying to stick the mess all together again, all it took now is few thousands of madmen and it all crumbled.
Remember?
on 24-09-2014 02:03 PM
@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Yes at least now there is hope for freedom under saddam there was none
Not realy, if they get killed by ISIS. And even if they survive, they are yet again being bombed into stone age.
on 24-09-2014 02:09 PM
on 24-09-2014 02:09 PM