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Iraq
Saddam Tells Countrymen to Feel No Guilt Over Kurd Deaths
2006-09-12
A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein’s forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed yesterday. The lunatic feisty former leader told his countrymen they should not feel guilty for crushing the Kurdish insurgency in the late 1980s. “My message to the Iraqi people is that they should not suffer from the guilt that they killed Kurds,” Saddam said shortly before the trial was adjourned for the day. It had just resumed after a three-week break.

The ousted president accused Kurdish witnesses against him of stirring sectarianism and racism. “All the witnesses said in the courtroom that they were oppressed because they were Kurds,” Saddam shouted. “They’re trying to create strife between the people of Iraq. They’re trying to create division between Kurds and Arabs and this is what I want the people of Iraq to know.”

The prosecution alleges that about 180,000 people were killed during the Anfal campaign in 1987-88 to crush a Kurdish insurgency during the later stages of a war with Iran. Addressing Iraqis, Saddam said passionately that the Kurds enjoyed rights under his regime and that he clamped down on insurgents among them.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Eric-
True to some extent, but my point was that Sammy was trying to shift the blame off himself.
Posted by: Spot   2006-09-12 13:53  

#7  Spot, he did have help. Let's not allow anyone to make the "I was just following orders" defense.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-09-12 13:42  

#6  ROE - next time just throw the grenades without pins, down the rat hole first. Screw the Intel boys. Soldier's option.
Posted by: Snock Uleth9594   2006-09-12 11:17  

#5  They can't hang him soon enough.
Posted by: Darrell   2006-09-12 11:07  

#4  My message to the Iraqi people is that they should not suffer from the guilt that they killed Kurds
Duh! Because they didn't kill them, you did, a**hole!
Bailiff - gag the prisoner!
Posted by: Spot   2006-09-12 09:00  

#3  During the intervals the feisty Mr. Hussein goes back to his little cell, where he sees nobody but his captors, washes his own underthings, and goes outside perhaps one hour per day -- or perhaps not, I don't really know. The big excitement of his life is to go back to the courtroom where, despite his feisty bravado, he is reminded at every moment that others rule what used to tremble at his whim. A quick death would have been ever so much less humiliating to him... but this is instructive to the rest of the Arab world (I'm sure the Persians see no reason to apply such a lesson to themselves, being so much more ancient of history and civilization, after all.)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-12 07:13  

#2  Three week recess? Is it just me or is Saddam's circus making the O.J. trial look positively speedy by comparison?
Posted by: PBMcL   2006-09-12 01:45  

#1  a true humanitarian. Senator Rockefeller (D- liketherest) should be sooo proud
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-12 00:35  

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