For crimes he committed against humanity, Saddam has been sentenced to death by hanging.
“The former Iraqi leader was convicted over the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail following an assassination attempt on him in 1982.
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“However, some legal experts have argued that Saddam Hussein’s ongoing trial for atrocities committed against the Kurdish population should be allowed to reach a verdict before he is executed.”
But the “legal experts” and the international media are missing the bigger picture: Partial justice is no justice at all. His execution, even if carried after the verdict of his Kurdish case, will deprive the world of a man who could well be tried for crimes he committed in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. During the eight-year war, through international backing, he used chemical agents not only against the Iranian army, but also against Iranian civilians.
The execution of Saddam means the end of a process of justice, which, if pursued ideally, could have even dragged high-profile warmongers such as the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his backing of Iraq’s army and chemical program during the war. Unsurprisingly, however, Rumsfeld’s involvement seems only to be the tip of the American iceberg: Donald Reigle, the head of a Senate Committee reports:
“UN inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq‘s chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs.“
The report continues:
“The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record.”
Unfortunately, this devastating record doesn’t end here. America, through countries like the Saudi Arabia and Italy, conducted most of its aid in a bid to make sure Iraq won; because, Iraq’s defeat in the war, in Rumsfeld’s words, “would be contrary to U.S. interests.” America even voted against a Security Council resolution condemning Iraq’s use of chemical agents during the war.
But it wasn’t only these countries that were involved in making the bloodbath happen. Germany, U.K., France and Spain have all had their fair share of monetary profits in return for the blood of the 20,000 Iranian soldiers and thousands of civilians who lost their lives.
It seems as if today everyone has forgotten about the souls of these individuals and those who lost their lives as a result of the Iranian retaliation. This rotten system, which does almost nothing other than ensure corporate benefits, is endangering the percipience of humankind. We are no longer noticing all the bad that’s being done because bad is no longer “bad.”
Take, for example, the “aid” that is being given to the poor countries of the world. For every dollar given in aid to poor countries, 13 dollars are squeezed out in various forms; and this voracious corporate appetite is being supplied form the stomachs of the 780,000,000 people who starve to death every year due to a shortage of food. These are the people who neither contracted the aid nor received any portion of it.
Peace, amity, humanity—all are becoming mere political gibberish and are losing their true values…to me at least.
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Tags: Iraq, Saddam, Bush, United States, Iran, WMDs, chemical warfare, Iran-Iraq war
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Thoughtful writing, which I have noted here.
Welcome to reality!
Absolute justice in the context of politics and conflict almost never prevails and in fact only perpetuates the conflict. The winners dictate the terms either directly or indirectly.
Enjoyed the read, best wishes, The Artist
Thank you for this post. I agree with you completely.
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Read the article, excellent writing. I’m becoming quite fond of your writing style, quite honestly. And of course, I totally and specifically, agree with the very last paragraph in your article. The one crucial point of reality, how sadly as it is.
“The execution of Saddam means the end of a process of justice, which, if pursued ideally, could have even dragged high-profile warmongers such as the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his backing of Iraq’s army and chemical program during the war.”
Right, and that’s exactly why PM Maliki is pushing for Saddam to be executed sooner rather than later. Saddam committed truly awful crimes (most of them whilst being supported by the West) and deserves to be punished. But he, like every other human being on the planet, is entitled to a fair trial. He did not recieve one and so the verdict is illegitimate. I wrote about it here.
Good post.
Excellent post. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you.
I agree with everything you say here. I really feel it is time for ordinary people all over the world to stand up and say enough is enough. It is always the poor and the innocent who are first to suffer the consequences of misguided, self-interested political strategies played out by little boys with big toys. It is amazing how a handful of deluded meglomaniacs in each country can do so much damage to so many people over such a long period of time. There is not an ounce of true wisdom among the lot of them and they are a disgrace to humanity – all of them. They call themselves leaders but they are the blind leading the blind.
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