The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

Couldn't find anything substantial on Saddam Hussein himself? Typical. But lets take a look at that son: he is known to have killed one person while being drunk (for which Saddam Hussein inprisoned him, btw), and rumoured to have tortured athletes. Yeah, plenty to start a war for, I guess.

I don't need to justify the starting of a war. I claimed Saddam, and his Tikriti mob were scumbags who deserved their fate.

I thought it would be too obvious to only post a biography of Saddam's accomplishments. Here is a CBC biography of Saddam for you. Here is a HRW article on The Mass Graves of al-Mahawil. But, that might be too much truth for you. Also, here is a Weekly Standard article attempting to estimate the number of lives saved by removing Saddam from power. Of, course, it's all a pack of lies, right?

"Four months before Saddam's fall, Human Rights Watch estimated that up to 290,000 people had "disappeared" since the late 1970s and were presumed dead. The Coalition Provisional Authority's human rights office estimates that 300,000 bodies are contained in the numerous mass graves. "And that's the lower end of the estimates," said one CPA spokesperson. In fact, the accumulated credible reports make the likely number at least 400,000 to 450,000. So, by a conservative estimate, the regime was killing civilians at an average rate of at least 16,000 a year between 1979 and March 2003."

So, no, it's not a justification for war, but it is the justification for executing the SOB.