If you look further back in this Blog, you will see an entry as “Brian” making statements about Saddam and his regime.

He was a brutal sadistic sub-human thing.  Period!!

As too the number of deaths, I will NOT dispute that, but how would have died under Saddam if he had been left alone. 
As to “Saddam Hussain’s was a midemeanor” is an uninformed statement.  Research what he has done over time to his own people (his tribe), his own countrymen and his neighbors (ask Kuwait & Iran).
Over time Saddam had killed a hell of a lot more people.

As for “crimes committed in their name”, I personally don’t see them as crimes and I still fully support President Bush.

As I have stated previously, don’t just stand behind the numbers, research ALL of the facts, not just the ones that sound disgusting independently.

I knew Saddam was less than human BEFORE 9/11/01.

Also, check out the almost total lack of media attention on the positives happening in Iraq.
That the Iraqi people are glad Saddam is gone, that the military personnell believe that what they are doing is working in a positive way.  This is evidenced by the fact that a good percentage of the military over there are on their second or third tour.  Do you think they would expose themselves to harm or death if they didn’t believe in what they were doing was good and working?

Brian C McGlynn,

Before you get carried away with Bush-Patriotism, have a look at the statistics of the Iraqi mortality since we started to ‘democratize’ those unfortunate people- with our shock and awe method.
Over one million two hundred thousand human beings would be alive today if our Bush has restrained himself from ‘liberating’ them.
(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)
Saddam Hussain’s was a midemeanor compared to Bush’s Crimes against the Humanity.
Americans should be aware of the crimes committed in their name, not to be in denial of them.
Chickens might eventually, come home to roost.

adrienrain,

You talk about Saddam’s “personal courage” as he died, could that have been his defiance, rather than courage?

As to the number of people that Saddam either killed or in some way caused to die, Saddam is still way ahead on that count.
And I don’t want you to believe me…
I want you to actually do research and see how many had died under his regime.  He was a brutal vicious dictator who would kill you in a heartbeat if he even suspected you were against him.
There have been from a couple of hundred thousand to as much as a couple of MILLION of people who died because of Saddam Hussein.

As for your comment about President Bush.
Number one, please check how many politicians supported going into Iraq.
Number two, research just how little space is needed for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.  There could still be some in Iraq or he could have easily shipped them to Syria before the war started.
Third, Saddam stated that he tried to make everyone believe that he had wmds to protect his country from invasion by Iran.

And if Bush were so evil, how easy would it have been for him to “plant” wmds to shut everyone up.  He has been more honest than you realize.
You want to assign blame, don’t forget the agencies responsible for information gathering, that the president has to rely upon.
The sad fact is that very few countries had decent intelligence in regards to Iraq or other middle eastern countries.

And you admire this poor excuse for a human being?
Don’t just look at youtube and think that you know of everything that is going on.  There is more to the world than a video clip or a sound bite.

I saw Saddam’s execution on youtube. He may have been a monster, but his personal courage was awe-inspiring. “Nothing became him so much in this lifetime as his leaving of it."~MacBeth

I wonder now if he was responsible for the deaths of fewer or more human beings than W is guilty of. I wonder if W on the scaffold would be so brave.

Unfortunately, and sadly, Bush is not what is wrong with this country.  It’s people like you Mr. Scheer.  Your ramblings, whether true or false, bring out some of the worst hatred in people.  You ARE unamerican. 

I am so sick and tired of people complaining about this war.  If I looked out my window and saw my neighbor beating the hell out of his wife and children, you can bet your backside I’d be the first to do something about it.  Want to know why?  Because I’m human, and my neighbors are human and no one deserves to be treated that way...and because it’s my responsibility as a human to make sure violence like that is not allowed to happen.  So if the President of our country stands up like a human being and protects our neighbors from violence, why do you say it’s so wrong?

Oh, I get it, you just want to complain!  I’d be willing to bet my life that when the election rolls around, and there’s a new president in office, you’ll be right here complaining and whining about everything he does as well. And why not?  There hasn’t been one single president ever elected into office that hasn’t completely ticked off people like you.

I feel sorry for you and anybody remotely like you.  Is your life so sad and unsatisfying that you must constantly find fault in everything around you?  It’s people like you that I pray for every day because it’s people like you that continue to destroy the morale of this country. 

You may have so-called facts to back up your stories, but remember, not everything you see on TV is real!  You’d do good to remember that.  You’d also do well to remember that just because you don’t like something someone does, doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do.  Stop acting like a two year old, stand up for your country, stand up for your military, and for God’s sake, stand up for a fellow human being!

if we had killed Saddam in the first gulf war we would not be in the mess we are in now. i know we could have because i have a friend who’s dad was a ranger in desert storm and he said that they had found the real Saddam but had been ordered not to take him out

Mary, it would be nice if you were a little more coherent.
If you are referencing what the US is doing in Iraq & Afghanistan, then you really don’t have a clue what’s going on.
Do you really think that the US could take control of these two countries, sugjugate the people and just give the land away to whomever we feel like?
The people of these two countries would not let us do that, plus the rest of the world would never allow the US do anything like that either.
Afghanistani people fought the USSR for years, even though the Russians could be very brutal.  So again, this could never and would never happen.  Throw in how many countries have tried over the millenia to subjugate these countries with no success.

As for Israel, we help them, but they will do whatever is necessary to keep their neighboring countries from destroying Israel. Most of the Arabic/Islamic world have professed that Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth, which is the reason they will defend themselves, just as YOU would if YOU were put in the same position.

So please think it out a little better and be a little clearer in sharing your thought on this matter.

do all of you really think the u.s. is keeping israel secure? they are ready to give the land and divide it to the highest bidder who are backed by the elite of gov’ts. around the world. would any of us be willing to give our land to people who want to annahilate us? the principalities in high places around this world want all truth thinking people confused and brainwashed so they can take control. the great deception of our time has come to completion. when powers dehumanize themselves, preaching peace and freedom, blindly, and murder other people, while others look away,blindly,will fall into the pit.sooner or later these power elites will destroy themselves and all who agree with their lies, injustice and unrighteousness.a little leaven leavens the whole lump. it may be too late, may god have mercy on us all.

Just another day in Iraq---in the same execution chamber where Saddam was hanged Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam’s half brother, plunged through the trap door and was beheaded by the sudden jerk of the rope; the body came to rest on its chest while the severed head lay a few yards away, still wearing the black hood pulled on moments before.

Iraqi officials seemed anxious to prove they hadn’t mutilated Ibrahim’s remains.

The hangings came as a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing seven people and wounding 40 others--a total of at least 55 people were killed or found dead across Iraq.

45606 Rogelio’s reply to my comments “Yes, Hussein will go down in history as a “bad guy.” The

problem I have with Hussein’s death was that he was not given a fair trial.”
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My reply to Rogelio
You probably also consider Adolph Hitler just a “bad guy”?
Do some research, Saddam Hussein is so much more than just a “bad guy”, he was a ruthless sadistic

murdering bastard and deserved to die.  Period!
When you do your research you’ll discover that he killed or had killed a very large number of people,

on top of the Iraqi military that he killed by throwing them at coalition forces in both the first &

second Gulf wars.
As I tell people, don’t believe me, look it up for yourselves.  Also don’t believe

sensationalist columnists like Scheer.

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45597 TAO Walker’s reply to my comments “looks like most everything Brian himself “knows” about

Saddam Hussein he learned from the MOCKINGBIRD-bent media.....not a very sound place from which to

leap to any reliable conclusions”
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My reply to TAO Walker
I learned about Saddam Hussein BEFORE 9/11/01.  What I discovered is that he had been a brutal,

merciless, cutthroat dictator.  While a lot his people were at a poverty level or worse, he built

even more palaces for himself AFTER the first Gulf war.  This was after a lot of the country was

devastated from that first Gulf war.  Is that someone that you’d be proud of or stand behind?  Throw

in the billions of dollars that vanished from the Iraq’s coffers to who knows where, from the sales

of “oil for food”. (talk to the UN over that one!)
And he trained his sons to be just as or more brutal than himself.
From the one son who routinely kidnapped, raped and murdered girls that caught his eye, to the one

son that was a drug dealer making 10’s of millions of dollars a year.  To when one son tried to kill

the other son using a helicopter gunship at an Iraqi state event.  He didn’t want his brother to be

next in line to succeed Saddam.  Dad just destroyed a building that housed a multi-million dollar

collection of cars (bought with the drug money!) as punishment.  Or the time when the one son visited

a prison holding approximately 2000+ political prisoners and when told that it was overloaded, he

told the warden to execute every single prisoner.  He had every guard & worker in prison to take part

in the firing squads.

So while I don’t know everything, I know enough about Saddam Hussein, his sons and his regime to know

that what he got was easy, compared to the suffering that he caused for sooooo many people, both

inside Iraq and outside.

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45681 Lefty’s reply to my comments “Bush’s sole interest in public office is self service. Bush

knowingly and purposely lied about intelligence that Iraq had WMD as a subterfuge for war in Iraq for

personal financial gain. Bush is worse than Hussein, and deserves worse than what Hussein got. What

part of that don’t you understand? In addition, Bush is also a fascist pig and a corporate pimp (a

redundancy, actually).”
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My reply to Lefty
Please tell me what “self service” is removing Saddam Hussein from power and letting the Iraqi

government execute him?
Bush did not lie about the intelligence. It’s very easy to second guess anyone after the fact.
In WW 2, would you have been against the US dropping one or both atomic bombs on Japan to try and end

that war?
If you read what I wrote, Saddam stated that he tried to make the world and especially Iran think

that he/Iraq did have or was building weapons of mass destruction.  Again, if someone tells me they

have a gun and are going to pull it out and kill me, I will defend myself to the best of my ability.
By your comments, you just don’t like Bush.  What kind of financial gain will he have from this war?
You seem to enjoy seeing your insults in print online.  Why ramble on with name calling, rather than

discussing an important set of events in your lifetime.

I am a little hazy on the exact history, but heard something somewhere… that we actually invited Saddam in to occupy Kuwait. Thus he did, and that was our pretext for “Desert Storming” him.

Bob, can you clear this up? Thanks.

So the Cockfight at the Baghdad Corral has climaxed with the Snuff Film of Saddam Hussein. And the important international question of “Who is the bigger dickhead, Bush or Saddam?” has been answered, sort of…

read more:  http://www.drsusanblock.com/blog/article181.html

Repeat after no one!  Find the truth within!  No one has the answers for you.  You must search and find your own from within your own being.

I watched Saddam’s execution on Live Links. Saddam’s behavior was exemplary. He sincerely thanked the American troops, Guards and Doctors who attended him before he was turned over to the Iraqi executioners.

The U.S. personnel were really impressed by Saddams presence of mind charm and dignity. Saddam Hussein acted like a man. Several newsmen on site commented on this.

During the execution, which was conducted and viewed by mostly Shiites, Saddam maintained his calm and reserve. The Shiites acted like a bunch of squalling little kids out to beat up on a Jew or a nigger or a defenseless little cripple kid.
They howled and screamed and cursed at Saddam, throwing insults at him throughout the execution and even after he was dead.

They acted like a bunch of undisciplined little brats. They even dropped the trap door under him while he was in the middle of his last prayers.

Saddam Hussein Died like a Man. I know that. I know when a Man dies like a Man. That is the Truth.

Those squalid, vicious, nasty, irresponsible little people who executed Saddam Hussein and all the Iraqis like them are not worth one American life, not one American dollar, not worth one American concern and not one concern for their Jewish oppressors.

The Bush/Republicans agenda in the Slaughter of Iraq was oil, military bases, a puppet government, a giant embassy and to protect Israel.

The people of the United States of America are not getting one lousy thing out of this terrible misadventure.

The Rich Bitches, Politicians, Military Commanders, Iran, Construction Companies, Private security companies and employees are getting rich off of this terrible mess and we are getting to pay for it. Lock stock and barrel.

We will pick up the whole tab in lost lives, wounded soldiers, the worlds hate and ridicule and our money, which we need to pay for our own failing infrastructure.

Saddam Hussein died like a man. How are our glorious leaders going to die?

Toc,
What the U.S. spreads is not the fruits of democracy, but instead it places the chains of corporate fascism.
Rae2,
You got it all right, and I will add....
The human race is so infected with the cancer of greed, the scab of power and the spirit of disrespect. You are right, we really do need to start over.
And Paul Shauver,
You must be saying that you stand with Bush?
Bush, the mass murderer, the mocking executioner, the cowardly chickenhawk who refused to serve his country. He is a hypocrite.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, (people places and things) the courage to change the things I can (myself) and the wisdom to know the difference.

I believe in an Infinite Being who is REALLY in charge here, if we would stop long enough to listen, and accept responsiblity for ourselves, and surrender to the power of love within.
It all begins with me.  I accept responsiblity for my own actions.  That is the best each of us can do.  I hold the light thought that says, I choose highest and best good for me, and for all beings.
It is a pity to me, that there is so much ignorance (lack of education).  If we want a differnt world, it is up to us to be the example, and it works. Truly.
Hastened death through anger is neither loving or logical.
Repeat after me - I surrender to the love of God flowing through my life.  I am at peace, I am peaceful, I accept peace, I express peace.  I refuse to take any part in warring.  I choose only peace in my life.

Oh, have I got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  “Peace” is not profitable!!!!!!!  What a dreadful realization.  Let’s find a way to make “Peace” profitable, and “warring” unprofitable, please!!!!!!!!!

Regarding comment #45609:

“the rope wasn’t tightly secured around his neck........
I think he is stll alive somewhere”.

What a bizarre thought!  And, was Jesus really dead when he was taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb?

You vilifiers of your own government are a study in mental illness. You have such amazing insight into the psyche of Bush, Cheny, et al. One can only understand your disease by reference to the idea of defense mechanisms. You project your own sick psyches onto some authority figure and thereby disown them. Thus, you are able to get rid of your unacceptable selves and condemn them vicariously. You don’t know Bush or Cheney. You just know your pathetic, frightened selves. And most comically, you see Sadam as somehow a victim, when he was in fact a vile murderer, rapist and torturer who would cut your throats in a heartbeat. It takes a truly deranged mind to call good evil and evil good. You and Karl Marx deserve each other.

The hanging of Hussein seemed more like a lynching to me than an execution.  It was barbarity at its most depraved level.  I decry such heinous barbarism.  It was a shameful spectacle in spite of whatever crimes against humanity he was guilty of committing.  I found it appalling and an abomination.  And, who exactly, is responsible for the 3,000 US military lives lost in Iraq, the maiming both psychologically and physically of untold numbers, and the deaths of 12,000 Iraqi civilians at last published account?

Mr. Scheer is the I.F. Stone of our generation!

One tyrant down.  One to go.

Too late; for the hero

The shake hand with Rumsfeld which sent Saddam over the moon; resulted adversely into mass killing of his opponents; but it did bring in some good results in the field of job assigned by his god father; He achieved a marked success in containing Iran and depleted her in a long war of attrition. He proved himself to be the best US ally and a staunch Proxy.

While he was walking on the air; he took this bliss to be an ever lasting and was blinded to think beyond.

The mission of god father was accomplished as per plan. It was time to say; good by to the valued friend and accordingly plugs were pulled. He had come to know this, in Kuwait attack drama. He was horrified to find that he may not see another full moon. But when he had realised it; it was too late for him. He found his regime lost and Iraq the dream land of his empire; reduced to the rubbles smouldering of some stone age.

In an obvious play let of his prosecution; it was irony of his fate that the whole World knew in advance; the out come of his show trail. Although; he kept the might of his self pride high till last and he did not bend his head till his neck snapped on the gallows.

He left a lessons for all the dictators and monarch of Arab world that while performing as proxies; (active or may be passively); beyond the life of their bliss; only one thing is certain; a colossal betrayal by their master; bringing them only the humiliation; deprivation for their people and a gallows awaiting at the end. 
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Love for all, Hatred for none

Hey Brian,

Bush’s sole interest in public office is self service.  Gaining public office for self service has been the Bush family business for 75 years.  Bush knowingly and purposely lied about intelligence that Iraq had WMD as a subterfuge for war in Iraq for personal financial gain.  Bush committed the biggest breach of public trust in the history of America.  Bush is an illegal eves dropper, a liar, a torturer, a mass murderer and a crook.  Bush is worse than Hussein, and deserves worse than what Hussein got.

What part of that don’t you understand?

In addition, Bush is also a fascist pig and a corporate pimp (a redundancy, actually).

As an outsider, everything that has happened since 2001 has been like watching a train crash in slow motion.

This light of dawn and awakening among you is heartening, but there is a great sadness at the price of torture and death that has been paid.  The men, the women, the children.  Each one with a story.

The time for wringing your hands is short and what has been done is done.  Cast aside the past, stand up and pray that God is merciful.

The time is apon YOU!

Your moment is almost here.

The timeless call to justice is sounding in your midst.

Bush has a disturbing record for bizarre executions going back to Texas and a woman he ridiculed during her execution.

The problem with Americans, left and right is their constantly doing missionary work among the heathens.  Instead of being like Bush, bringing the natives the fruits of democracy, why don’t you but out from how Iraqis treat their dictators.  It is none of your business.

Your and Dubya’s opinions seem to be two sides of the same coin.

Before closing I would like to say one thing.  I oppose capital punishment on the grounds that if you give the state the power to kill, they will use it. The Execution of Hussein was a real exercise in futility. The fact that you and Bush are continually sticking your nose in their business doesn’t help matters.

Nice article Mr. Scheer, as always.

I’ve been inspired by your work in the past and reached similar conclusions to you in my article Saddam Hussein - RIP

http://totallyfixed.blogspot.com/2006/12/saddam-hussei n-rip.html

Again. Your work is always exemplary.

Thanks.

This my very first time visiting this site and my very last time.
A lot of you folks out there would give Fox Mulder a run for his money!

I can’t read any more of this pornography… the whole thing, on BOTH sides, makes me so ashamed, so sick of being associated with “the West.”

The “East” folks aren’t any more moral or forthright, for sure, but they ain’t any worse.

I’ve finally come to the conclusion that the complete destruction of the human race would NOT be a “bad thing.” We cannot be trusted in any way, shape or form. The universe sure doesn’t need us and wouldn’t be any worse off if we didn’t exist. Where’s that vengeful god when we need “him.” How about another world-wide, 40-day flood. Let’s start over… this try didn’t work.

I cannot believe the amount of rightwing, boo hooing that I read in these comments.  I find it extremely hard, as an American, and as a retired military veteran, to believe that Americans would actually stand up for such an a**shole as Saddam.  Thank God that you weren’t around in the late 1930’s, early 40’s, or because of people like you, we would all be speaking German.  I will say this one more time:  You do not speak for the majority of military. I have friends and relatives in Iraq, and to a man, they all support the president 100%.  If I could return to active duty, I would in a heart beat.  And, on another matter, talking about Chickenhawks.  Yeah, like Clinton was such a big war hero.  Remember his little trip to Russia, to demonstrate against Vietnam?  Geez, you people really need to get a life. 
I knew that there was something wrong with your types, when you blamed the president for Katrina.  Now he’s responsible for the weather too.  And, once again, you don’t speak for me.

cell phone videos have even less resolution than the Zapruder film. What I saw was:

1. rope wasn’t tightly secured around his neck
2. some sort of scarf was placed between rope and skin (why?)
3. He was immediately put on the floor instead of letting him ‘hang until dead’.
4. he seemed very calm for someone who knew he is about to die.

I think he’s still alive somewhere.

Hussein’s execution is a travesty. Was he an unruly dicatator? Of course, all we agree that he committed “crimes against humanity.” However, are his crimes any different than those of our nation’s aggressive, imperialistic, murdering of 600,000 plus/minus Iriqi’s?

I am proud to be an American. Unfortunately, it saddens me that our nation overuses its power to enforce their will globally. What gives us the right to kidnap Manuel Norriega and then force our tax dollars to pay for his imprisonment.

Yes, Hussein will go down in history as a “bad guy.” The problem I have with Hussein’s death was that he was not given a fair trial. If we are imposing our so-called American style democracy in Iraq, then how can we rush so quickly to murder a man?

It makes you wonder if his quick death had anything to do with the upcomming trials of these damn Republicans who started this whole f-ing mess to begin with. We never got to hear what Hussein had to say. Was “W” administration afraid that Hussein would implicate his corrupt Republican regime?

Hussein’s death, whether warranted or not, is an embarassment to humnaity and our so-called righteousness.

Our nation has set a wonderful precedent!

So happy to have you singing and dancing and playing along, “blues.” Hope you’ve brought some friends, too.

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Not “everyone” is attacking Bush (Brian #45512).  But most of those who do, judging by the generally off-target aim of their thrusts, have evidently been successfully decoyed into mistaking the shill for the actual gang of murderous con-artists he so half-wittingly fronts for.  It looks like most everything Brian himself “knows” about Saddam Hussein he learned from the MOCKINGBIRD-bent media.....not a very sound place from which to leap to any reliable conclusions.

That the Zionists are in as far over their heads here as their Anglo/American co-conspirators seems almost too obvious by now to need mentioning.  What maybe does is the ought-to-be alarming fact that the entire criminal enterprise has now run completely out-of-control of even its most high-level hidden perpetrators. 

Institutionalized insanity is on an unalterable course to a spectacular collision with the lethal limits of its own internal contradictions.....and the sociopaths who set it all in-motion have contrived to take virtually the entire civilized world along for the ride with them.  “What’s in your wallet” is a one-way ticket to EREHWON.....that’s NOWHERE, to us primitive savages who’ve had the common sense to stay on the free-and-wild side of “the looking-glass.”

Maybe there’s still a little time for some of you to jump off, and live to tell about it.  But there’s no chance of doing that now without getting at least seriously banged-up in the attempt.  You can count on us whole human beings, though, to help you pick-up-the-pieces.  “Are you willing to risk it all?” If not, we’ll catch ya on the flip-flop, good buddy.

HokaHey!

“The holocaust is a hoax” by Joe Splink:

My grandparents and two aunts, babies at the time, were murdered in the gas chambers and my father survived Auschwitz. You can express how this war was a grave mistake, but to spew baseless lies is truly unconsciounable and hurtful.

Mr. Scheer is right. 

In my view, Bush’s Iraq policy and the “realist” response is bad for America.  No one but a few self-important think tank geeks and meth-smoking evangelical preachers ever really believed that America could transform the Middle East into a new Garden of Eden by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, turning Sunni against Shia and ramming a comically-naive Constitution down the throats of shell shocked survivors. America’s democracy was created at the barrel of American muskets. It appears that the “neo-cons” expected to create Middle East democracy at the barrel of American warheads. Democracy doesn’t work that way.

Let’s face it, we are an occupying colonial power. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. The Greeks, Romans and Brits did it for centuries. Let’s just not pretend we’re something that we’re not. (Newt Gingrich has pointed this fact out on national television recently in what appears to be an almost erotic glee. Good for him… not that he’s right but because he had a little thing poking around in his pants at the thought of himself as Viceroy of Iraq, I mean.)

So I guess what I’m saying is that all the nice talk about promoting democracy, and all, from the “neo-cons” was really about promoting American imperialism. Hmm. But aren’t all those authoritarian governments in the Middle East pro-American (at least when they’re not funding terrorists)? Hmm. So let me think this through since I get confused so easily. The “neo-cons” want to overthrow the authoritarian but pro-American Middle East governments in order to create a group of American colonial possessions in their place. I’m not the most sophisticated guy around but is seems like a lot of work to get us right back to where we already were at the dawn of this decade.

Why don’t we try a new approach.  Let’s accept that our current policies have failed.  We can work together with other nations to forge a new Middle East that promotes civil rights, freedom of speech and equality for all.  Instead of war, we can try a novel approach… the power of persuasion.

One final note, can we please keep the anti-Jewish comments to a minimum.  Mean-spirited comments about one’s ethnicity does not raise the level of discourse.

Instead of the United States in a cameo appearance a la Keystone Cops....consider a much more trenchant and historically significant parallel to Pontius Pilate. I explicitly reject any Christ/Saddam unity in this statement. I merely suggest that the premagistrate of Rome “washed his hands” in a public spectacle much the same way the George Bush “cleared brush” or “slept” throughout the process. As an aside, how does Bush sleep through such an event. In Canada we have have a name for such dysfunction: Paul Bernardo.

I reject Scheer’s idea that Saddam was a monster and I am quite disappointed that Scheer has fallen so low as to demonise another victim of our barbarism.
Saddam was a naive man who has trusted our perfideous and treacherous promises. He has never realized that behind Washington’s american facade stood Israel- a mortal error of any ally of the U.S.
Besides,how can anyone whose president is Bush,
dare call anybody a monster? Have we lost completely our moral standards?

I’m a big fan of Sheer’s, but as long as we have Jews analyzing the Iraq war we will get the Zionist perspective, and not the truth.  Thus Sheer cannot bring himself to mention the real reason for the war, as Fritz Hollins says “The US started the war in Iraq to secure Israel, and everyone knows it”.

But the real howler in Sheer’s piece is the following “This, quite opposite to the spirit of the Nuremberg war crime trials (established by the United States but not repeated today by President Bush), where the accused had competent and unintimidated attorneys, free to make a complete case.”

The holocaust is a hoax and Nuremberg was a show trial on the Soviet model.  The prime evidence was a sworn statment by the commander of Auschwitz written in English, a language he neither read nor wrote.

Well,there shouldnt have been the execution of Saddam because taking someone’s life away like that is awful.However,there could be imprisonement would have been more preferable in his own country.But now i guess the situation has provoked and anything cant be assumed of what is going to happen in now.

Why is everyone attacking Bush?
Saddam Hussein revealed under interrogation that he tried to make the world and especially Iran believe that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction”. 
Why would he do that you ask?  Well, he figured that if he didn’t put on a strong front that Iran would attack Iraq and either take part of the country or take over Iraq totally.

To put it into another perspective, imagine a police officer that comes upon a person that he has encountered before and that person was a vicious criminal who had killed previously and usually carried a deadly weapon. 
Then that person put his hand in his pocket and told the police officer that he was going to kill him.  Should the police officer wait till he’s in jeopardy or dead before defending himself?  The officer should draw his weapon when threatened by a known deadly criminal.
Hmmmm… I kind of think that Saddam Hussein was a known deadly criminal, who had murdered people and used wmds, who by his own admission wanted people to believe he had wmd.
So do we wait until a nuclear or chemical/biological weapon is unleashed on our country BEFORE defending ourselves?
Am I missing something here?
I do know that if Saddam had the chance to use a wmd on the US there would have already been a lot of dead Americans.

As to how Iraq treated Saddam’s execution, it was the decision of the Iraqi government, pure and simple.  The international community, like the Iraqi people wanted to handle this themselves.

As to the references about how the US connections with Iraq and Saddam Hussein would show up at a trial and how the execution will help cover-up this history is crap. 
We all know that the US has done stuff that it should not have done.

But you’re making it sound like it is Bush’s fault for previous administrations actions.
That’s like blaming me for slavery!! I and my parents and my grandparents and great grandparents and probably great-great grandparents have never owned anyone!! In fact slavery may have ended before my forebears stepped on US soil

So people can make sure every lunatic has their rights upheld! 
Image if someone had stood up to Adolph Hitler early on, just how many lives could have been saved and how much destruction would not have happened.
If he had been around today, he probably would have killed even more people and caused more destruction, as people made sure that his rights were upheld.

Bottom line, everyone who reads this should do research THEMSELVES!! Do not let me or anyone else tell you their version of what’s happening in the world, go out and find out just what Saddam Hussein and his kids did to the country of Iraq and the surrounding countries.

Considering that depending upon sources, he is responsible for killing anywhere from a couple hundred thousand to 1.5 million plus.  Which makes it very important for YOU to know more before deciding where the right and the wrong is in the world.

I sure do miss the days when Americans were the “good guys”.

Wonderful article, Mr Scheer, as always, and thanks for it.

Thanks also for the great comments that the article stirred.  It’s nice to realize that I’m not alone.  I look forward ,now, to the Bush trial.  If only.

All of this handwringing over the death of a butcher doesn’t surprise me one bit.

Why is it that those who have never heard the crack of an angry bullet nor wretched from the smell of rotting flesh in a village destroyed by bombs, finds playing at war so irresistable?  This administration, staffed and led as they are with and by psycopaths, draft dodgers, and war criminals will no doubt provide decades of research for psychiatrists and doctoral aspirants.
Bruce G. Richardson
Author: “Afghanistan, Ending the Reign of Soviet Terror.”

The United States has become a criminal empire. Its collapse will be a good thing for all of humanity, including the clueless American people. How to avoid such a fate? Quit being an empire, recall your military from abroad, and impeach the criminal Bush cabal for crimes against humanity, and do it now! Chances of this happening? Nil!

As is usual for Mr. Sheer, he omits mention of Israel and the US Zionists Lobby as a principal instigator in our invasion of Iraq, which, in its unraveling, has led to this horrific end. Hanging Saddam cast a blight on all that is America. Israel’s role aside, the rope used in this sordid and shameful act was our own.

The US government helps create and develop an organization (Al-Qaeda) to get foreign military invaders (the Soviets) out of Muslim Lands. Today that foreign military invader and occupier of muslim lands is the US. Why should the US Government be surprised that Al-Qaeda is now fighting the US Military Occupiers of Muslim Lands.
After the cold war the US government/military/industrial complex searched for a new world war and they think they have found one. Don’t let them!! Contact The New House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer who appears to support this continued occupation at phone number 202-225-4131 or fax him at 202-225-4300!
DEMAND: STOP Funding This War and Get US Troops Out of Iraq’s 1000 year civil war

I hope somebody remembered to ask Saddam what happened to all them WMD’s.

As for the video and the taunts; this paradox of a civilized execution is ridiculous. If that was the worst thing that happened to him that day…

Besides murdering Saddam for crimes that happened before Raygun provided him with poison gas to be used against the Iranians and the intelligence to maximize the kill, the execution swept from the headlines Ford’s diktat against Bush that Woodward could only make public after Ford’s death.  I guess Ford was too frightened of Bush to take his stand while he was alive.

Ford was always a water-carrier for the fascists.  He pardoned the then most criminal, murderous, degenerate and corrupt president the US ever suffered up to that time, Nixon.  This was propagandized as healing the nation.  What drivel.
What would have healed the nation would have been the trial and imprisonment or execution of Nixon for his war and other crimes.

The sadistic psychopath Bush has already gotten himself pardoned for his war crimes, crimes against humanity, war-profiteering, utter corruption, incompetence and gross violation of the Constitution, US law, international law that the US bound itself by treaty and his oath of office.

You seem to forget that the murder of Saddam happened during a bloody USraeli ockupation.

It´s a USraeli official murder of another states president, legitimate or not.

We all know that for those crimes that the former friend of Tel Aviv/Washington, Saddam was “convicted” all american presidents after Bretton Woods would be executed as well.

Not to mention all zionists ruling the apartheid state since it was forced on another peoples territoty.

“America needs to take a hard look in the mirror if it is to avoid the slide into criminal fascism, experienced by the people of Germany, Japan, and Italy in 1945.”

Or Belgium and especially Britain in the 1800’s, when their imperialist activities and colonization brutalized tens of millions of people in Africa and Asia even as they themselves were defeated and expelled from places like Afghanistan or South America, with creeping decline at home.

If anything, the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq has more in common with the imperialists of the 19th century than the fascists of the 20th-- both were vicious, murderous collections of regimes, and perhaps the only good outcome of the early 20th century was that they effectively bankrupted each other and took each other out, especially as they were further humiliated in and after 1945 by the very people they had scorned and colonized for 200 years-- Algeria and Vietnam expelling the French, while the Irish, Cypriots, Egyptians, Indonesians and Yemenis all defeated the British and Dutch and expelled them from their countries in disgrace. 

It’s an interesting footnote that the British themselves also attempted to colonize Iraq in the 1920’s, and failed miserably-- they were all but evicted by 1945, and after a brief occupation later, Qassem effectively kicked them out for good.  This was also Mohammed Mossadegh’s unpardonable “crime” in Iran in 1953, and Nasser’s in Egypt in 1956-- both expelled the British soldiers and corporate interests from their countries, and although the Machiavellian Allen Dulles was the engineer of Mossadegh’s overthrow in Iran (which is why the Iranians hate us so much), it was Winston Churchill who provided the main impetus for the coup against Mossadegh, in his second stint as Prime Minister in the UK.  (Anthony Eden obviously tried the same thing against Nasser, though it was Nasser who won that stare-down.) Churchill was also one of the main officials in the British Protectorate in Iraq and hated the Iraqis so much that he urged mass terror-bombing against them (which that idiot Arthur Bomber Harris carried out), and even then, the British met disaster.

So now, the US, and ironically Britain again, tread again where Britain trod so disastrously in the 1920’s-- in the consuming desert of Iraq.  (And also in Afghanistan, which was a House of Horrors for Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries-- Afghanistan is the only country to defeat the British in three different wars, and may well do so again with this latest operation.) It’s naked imperialism, plain and simple.

The real reason for Saddam Hussein’s execution wasn’t “taking on a dictator,” but because this dictator-- whom the USA had once supported-- was bought by us, but didn’t stay bought.  The irony is that Saddam basically wanted an alliance with the USA even after the First Gulf War, and Saddam-- cruel as he was-- was probably the most grimly effective figure in the Middle East at both weakening Iran and containing and thwarting the radical Islamists.  The Baath Party, after all, was secular, and women, Christians and other minorities paradoxically had more rights and privileges in Baathist Iraq than almost any other Middle Eastern nation.  In taking out Saddam like this, the United States, Britain and Australia have effectively taken down one of our most reliable counters to much tougher adversaries against us. 

Strategically, as well as economically and morally, the Iraq War is a disastrous defeat for us.  On superficial analysis it’s not on the scale of Vietnam, but in terms of political, economic and strategic costs, it’s a far more damaging defeat for the Anglosphere countries.

From the moment Saddam was sentenced on the eve of the US Congressional elections, my disgust with the US gov’t has deepened, and I am a US citizen by birth, tho no longer in spirit. The video of the hanging was so chillling and repulsive that I don’t understand how anyone could see the act of hanging the head of state of another gov’t as something that could reinvent the US reputation in the world. The travesty of a sham trial in a nation occupied, and the Clear involvement of the US in all affairs Iraqi since the 1950’s, is enough to sicken the heart of justice sane human beings demand. We have become doomed as a nation in this travesty. The nightmare just gets worse. All the rest of the world can do is watch as the US hangs itself. Saddam’s hanging and his taunting is the perfect reflection of what has taken over the soul of America. Cognative dissonance is all around in this nation ruled by thieves and the criminally insane.
Thank you robert for your brilliant insightful article,
and for confirming the rumors of all the bribed and bought off dictators who have been in the pay and purvue of the US covert agencies over the past 60 years or so.

“Fittingly, U.S. officials appeared in this spectacle as hapless Keystone Kops, morally implicated by their tepid support of a lynch mob.  It perfectly mirrors decades of U.S. meddling in the history of Iraq, beginning with U.S. support for Saddam’s Baath Party when it overthrew Iraqi nationalist Abdul Karim Qassem because we feared he was tilting ever so slightly to the Soviets.  In fact, Saddam, like Osama bin Laden and the other Islamist fanatics our CIA recruited and helped to wage holy war against the Soviets, was a monster at least partially of our creation.”

They say three Iraqis were arrested today, for filming and distributing the video of Saddam being executed—-is this the democracy we formed; one that imprisons Iraqis for showing the truth—-3,000 U.S. troops died to establish a government that is a repressive chaotic mess, controlled by street gangs on the move, or perhaps they are a Wild West posse having a good old lynching party.

The Iraqis who distributed the video should be commended rather than convicted—-why hide Saddam’s execution, his trial was expedited, Bush wanted him executed, so it is significant that we see the handiwork of those responsible.

The public is tired of being patronized—-the Iraq War is not a movie set, real people die, 660,000 Iraqis are dead, a figure not much talked about by the Bush Administration, just like those flag draped coffins of U.S. troops that are hidden from MSM cameras, why are those in the White House frightened to show the effects of their policies—-let all see the price that some pay for corruption. 

The tall stately statue of Saddam was torn down three years ago three men set-up a ladder, climbed up the pillar, and draped a long rope, noose style, around the statue’s neck.  They climbed down, and a few others, swung away at the pillar with a hammer.  The pillar was about 30 feet high and 6 feet or so in diameter. The statue stood about 30 feet high. A couple of American Abrams tanks were loitering about; they could easily topple the statue in a minute, but they seem disinclined--leaving the task, to the Iraqis; with the help of some ropes.

Three years later, a rope was once again used by Iraqis to tear down all remaining reminders of the previous regime, however, this time they had the actual head of Saddam in their hands, but yet he stood just as noble and calm as a statue, refusing to be shrouded by hood, wanting to see how he was to die, surrounded by masked men chanting and tormenting him until the very end.

US on Saddam: “We would have done it differently”.
By lethal injection instead?

Back in the early 70s...I recall the news of the Watergate break in.  A little voice way deep in the cobwebs of my muddled little mind said that something was not right and that the WhiteHouse had its hand in the proverbial cookie jar.
Oliver North hearings....little voice
Noises about Iraq in 2002....little voice
Valerie Plame....little voices keep coming
Now Saddam rushed to execution....I’m hearing things again...but just a bit louder now and more often.

Why were we out in the streets during the VietNam fiasco, but not during this one?

Headless

Very true, The Monster of our Creation is George W. Bush and his gang of thugs. He has been allowed to get away with whatever he pleased from the age of two to this very day. No one has ever had the balls to stand up to him and no one ever will.
He and his gang of thugs put all that thoughtful planning and organization into stealing the 2000 election, without anyone in authority standing up and asking what the hell is going on?  What made us think they would challenge his Iraq WAR emergency?  They blindsided Al Gore, the democrats and the American people with the same baseball bat thuggery that they hit Saddam with a couple of years later. Saddam paid with his life.  The people of Iraq have paid, and will continue to pay for many years with millions of their lives. The American people are paying with a loss of dignity, a loss of pride and respect for a once great country, and their growing hatred of the corrupt, spineless, gutless do-nothing leaders of America. Where the hell are the well educated real leaders that this country was once able to produce?  I suggest if the United States cannot create intelligent leaders, then we should in-source them.  The whole world can’t possibly produce an entire population this STUPID!
And George the “decider” should move his office to Baghdad, take up residence there and with all that love in his heart, lead those people to HIS promised land!  Why hasn’t the “thinker” thought of that?

I would be so honored to walk with you, TAO Walker.

The hanging of Saddam Hussein was nothing more than a lynching. It wasn’t justice served. It was a lynch mob taking over the civility that barely existed.

IT SEEMS TO ME, MR SCHEER, THAT THE MONSTER OF OUR OWN CREATION IS GEORGE BUSH. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NOTHING ON GEORGE BUSH WHEN IT CAME TO LYING AND DEVIOUS CONDUCT.

I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT WERE GEORGE BUSH OPERATING IN A POLITICAL SYSTEM LIKE IRAQ HE WOULD HAVE ACTED EXACTLY AS MR. HUSSEIN.
AS IT IS MR. BUSH, WHOM I CONSIDER AN OUT AND OUT WAR CRIMINAL, HAS PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM HAS EVER ALLOWED.

COVERTLY, THIS PRESIDENT HAS ENGAGED IN NUMEROUS CRIMINAL ACTS. THE MOST OBVIOUS OVERT ACTION IS THE IRAQ WAR WHICH HAS LED TO THE DEATHS OF 3000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND HALF A MILLION(?) IRAQIS.

TRULY, GEORGE BUSH DESERVES THE SAME FATE AS THE DESPOT HUSSEIN. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM IS THAT MR. HUSSEIN DIED LIKE A MAN; I BELIEVE MR. BUSH WOULD GO DOWN SNIVELING, AND ON HIS KNEES…

Only George Bush could find a way to make Saddam Hussein a sympathetic and dignified figure…

Justice demands;
In Iraq; if Saddam is punished to death for killing of some 148 Iraqis in 1982 in a small town of Dujail.

Who all will be hanged for?

American killed 3000+
American wounded and impaired over 15000
Iraqi killed 6,50,000+
Number Iraqi wounded and maimed are countless.
Iraqi fled for safety to other countries--- over one million
Destruction to infrastructure and properties….No limit
US invaded a sovereign country on (proven) false pretext.

Where as Almighty God teaches its believers;

“Whosoever killed a (defenceless) person-it shall be as if he killed all the mankind; and who so ever saved a life, it shall be as he had saved the life of whole the mankind”

Whether it was wrong or right is less relevant than what will happen now, and why what will happen will happen.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2006/12/this_is_not_a_n arcissistic_inj.html

I go back with you a long time Robert Sheer. You’re my hero. I read your “Primer on Vietnam” book back in Berkeley in those exciting and wonderful “Love ‘67 Hippie Heaven” days, and as usual, you’re right on the mark and I really appreciate everything you’ve been doing from the “Ramparts” (Magazine) days to these incredible times right now.

My remark is simple. Today’s “Bush Spin Cycle” is that they “Would have done it differently”. That’s obviously a lie because Bush & Co “did it” and no one else is to blame. Pushing blame anywhere else is absurd. Bush did it and that’s exactly the way they “wanted it done”. The whole world see’s and know’s this truth.

Maliki is/was nothing but the surrogate executioner for Bush & Co and Maliki’s day’s are obviously numbered too. I doubt Maliki will be permitted to see another Full Moon now that he’s bothched up this lynching for Bush & Co so badly. Just in the last few hours news reports are now coming out with new “Spin” about how Maliki want’s out and no longer wants to be the “Pimped and Punked-Out Puppet Prime Minister Executioner for Bush & Co. (I move that Full Moon prediction back 14 days to only a fortnight for Maliki. Like Saddam, Maliki knows too much.)

Funny how all this Cosmically Karmic Soap Opera is turning out: Both Muqtada al-Sadr and Bush have daddy problems with Saddam. Saddam killed Muqtada al-Sadr’s father and (supposedly) attempted to kill Bush’s daddy ~

“Little boy(s) lost take themselves so seriously” and everything that goes around comes around ~ Like the Chinese waiting for the next Emperor: “NEXT ! ;”

Bush and friends need not to be impeached
but tried in a legal international tribunal for their crimes against humanity , nationally and internationally.
for their very illegal ways of operating
should they loose their heads like Saddam ??
certainly Guantanamo is a major proof
like it is the fact that Saddam was a terrorist"Made in America” , like is enemy Osama Bin Laden.
with much support of State dept. and CIA, at their convenience
Remember Noriega??

so, where is their morals and ethics and legal support to do such atrocities...” in the name of halping democracy..
perhaps is time more people open their eyes and minds to certain truths..

Mr. Scheer with all due respect title of your article should have been “another Monster of Our Creations”. Since the 1849 we have created a countless number of this tyrants just to name a recent few we can call on Noriega, Ben Laden, Pinochet everybody in world has got a few them from the good guys US. This is now kind of our national pride and food for our 24/7 news entertainment channels. Correctly the majority of world thinks Americans silence is the seal of approval.

Robert,

While you are not the first to express the sentiments you have here regarding this shameful event, you are, nevertheless, the first to pull together all of the disparate threads bearing upon it. As assuredly as this tin-horn Hitler look-alike in the White House brought us to a new low having done ziltch to put an end to the destruction of Lebanon last Summer by Israeli warplanes, he brings us lower still with this farce. You capture my feelings on this matter almost perfectly. What possible claim can the United States still have to the good opinion of decent men and women.

John Lowell

Every comment so far has been in the affirmative for u Mr. Scheer, and after reading it in the SF Chronicele this morning, I read it again here on your website. I just wish these comments could be picked up on the mass idiot media at Fox or whatever people watch these days to find their news. Thank you for concice summation of what is REALLY going on inIraq and the our country.

By allowing Saddam to be hung, George Bush has allowed Iraq to become what America use to be. Hangings were acceptable in America during the reign of the KU KLUX KLAN ! Iraq is now America’s civil war between the north and south. Unfortunatly, there is no leader like Lincoln around to unite the country. No civilized nation like the United States should have allowed a excution by hanging, but then again,we are no longer considered civilized after what Bush and company has done to us as a nation. Torture,violation of civil rights,unlawful detentions,secret prisions,unlawful ease dropping,haebeas corpus no longer applies,no right to speak with to a attorney,no right to a fair and speedy trial. George Bush has taken us back to what America use to be,and he has duplicated that policy in Iraq.

No surprise at all. When a chimpanzee dominates human beings it has to use animal rules and we have to get used to its.

There has been and is far too much hesitation and ambivalence among the politicians and media on acknowledging that “Emperor” Bush is attired in his birthday suit.

This entire Iraq adventure being orchesrated by the neocons and directed by the Bush administration has unfolded as a series of war crimes and criminal blunders which demand accountability.

Bush now is saying that in answer to the Nov. 7 mandate by the public he intends to escalate the U.S. military presence in Iraq which will escalate the American casualities. The only two options left for deploying American troops are to 1) withold funding for futher military operations and 2) the immediate impeachments of both Bush and Cheney.

Bush and Cheney should be held accountable for criminal activities in a court of law soon after they are out of office.