Lets learn about Saddam :)

http://nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3000439&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue

"The stories of Saddam's barbarity beggar belief. Much is made of his destruction of 4000 villages and gassing of Kurds in the north in the late 1980s in which up to 150,000 people were killed. But we forget about the grotesque viciousness of his campaign against Sunnis, Christians and Shi'ites.

Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, the German human rights activist and Marxist intellectual who is an expert on conditions in Iraq, has described the cruelty of Saddam's war against Shi'ites around Basra, in which about 300,000 have died."


shesh, What a nice guy. Something to think about when your defending him huh...

god trapper... why does it always have to be an us against them????

i can see this war turning in the biggest mistake ever made on earth, and i want to do everything i can to stop it.

Who's been defending him?

Certainly not me, the mans a bastard.

I concur with cactus_genie.

Don't think I've heard anyone defend Saddam...?!?!?!

What more it's the innocent Iraqi people that I'm worried about... Have they not suffered enough, at both the hands of Saddam & the US?

Saddam is a bastard, he caused the deaths of almost as many people as the UN sanctions (predominantly enforced by the US and UK) have done.

unplug the governments

plug in the computers

Unplugging the dictators would be a good start...

Saddam is a dictator, who like his peers uses terror (internal) and violence to retain his power over 'his' people.

Yet 100% voted for him.... (sorry couldn't resist).

Far too many Iraqis have died - be it by Saddam's policies and actions or those foreign governments.

While bush and saddam fight, the ordinary people die. In a war, even more will die. I don't know the solution but hopefully it will be one that minimises the suffering of the iraqi people. They are just pawns in a game of chess, and at the end of any game of chess most of the powerful pieces are left and the pawns have all gone.