Wash Post: Saddam's Last Words To FBI

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Well, Saddam did kill many people and put them in mass graves over the years.
There was Chemical Ali. He was a mass murderer, which Saddam was part of.

We opened that can of worms, and now we're trying to get the worms back into the can.
We now have to play the hand as is.

What about North Korea? Are they set to bomb us July 4th?
Happy 4th!

Let's see,
Lie about having weapons of mass destruction.
More afraid of Iran than the USA
Denies access to UN inspectors all in hopes of
Reaching a security agreement with the aforementioned USA.

Yep, Saddam was insane, an idiot, had a special talent for misevaluation or was incompetent.
Maybe all three.

We are all better off that his DNA have left the planet.

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Maybe all four.

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Doesn't excuse an illegal and immoral war. Cheney knew and admitted as much in his own words in recent interviews...even admitted the President himself didn't know what was going on...I hope no one reads too much into this...it doesn't excuse what we did over there...it was wrong. End of story.

But Saddam was creation of who?
Where did he get the WMD?
What are we facing now?

But saying that, it doesn't mean Sadaam wasn't a nice guy, he wasn't...but there was never any evidence of wmd's and there wasn't any before the invasion took place...It's even known Cheney used his waterboarding techniques to place connections between Al quaeda and Sadaam that never existed...Cheney admitted that there was never a connection between Al Qaeda and Sadaam Hussein in recent interviews after the fact, so this blog excuses NOTHING.

True zvscn. He thought that the Shite's in Iran were a greater threat than us. Maybe he was right and we were wrong. We did a better job of screwing up the Middle East than the British with this war. Their divide and conquer strategy with unnatural borders has caused most of the major problems in the world like Pakistan India & many more. We just wanted the oil & we still may not get the contracts.

Why are we so bright as a country and so immoral. It does not matter what the laws of the Iraq, a man like Saddam should not have ever been executed. He should been judged by Un, not by the Iraqis. The guys stood up and defended his country as we would do for our country. He tried to expand himself in the Middle East like we have been expanding ourselves in the world.

President is doing very bt tying to restore morality to our past behavior. He action and standing has restored trust and faith in our system. His more challenging is his demand to retore the president of Honduras in power. He is demontrating to the world that we are only a nation that is preaching Democracy, but a nation that will support Democracy in its true meaning.

Bush blew it bigtime. Cherrypicking evidence and intel to fit your agenda leads to where you want to end up, not where you should end up.

He invaded Qwait, gas his own people why would anyone believe a word he says let alone make a news story of it?

"We did a better job of screwing up the Middle East than the British with this war." - Lydia

Dear confused Lydia and all others who think the same,
"This War" is the hope and change the Iraqis long for.
Without "this war" there would be no chance for a meaningful democracy in the Middle East.
You should hope and pray the Iraqi people don't screw up the chance we have given them.

Regarding "He (Saddam) thought that the Shiite's in Iran were a greater threat than us. Maybe he was right and we were wrong."
It's obvious to people with functioning grey matter that Saddam was wrong.
His regime is out of power.
The man is dead.
His sons are dead.
Iraq is on the brink of governing themselves.
There is now hope for the moderates in Iran for a democracy of their own.
Who was more of a threat to Saddam, the Shiites in Iran or the USA?

Answer: as if I need to spell it out, The USA.

Posted by: Jackson Altidor | Jul 2, 2009 1:36:21 PM

You need to get out more and read newspaper articles from around the world, before you make statements like these. Ops, I guess you only speak english

to NOZ.....but what happens if Iran decides to use nuclear weapons?????
Better the devil you know (USA) then the devil you don't (Iran) We may have been so smart that we created a real monster in the Middle East, with zealots who have no problem with taking on the US.

Dude we didn't create any monster.
Just the fact that we are number one in the world and christian to boot is enough for the zealots to try and kill us.

As for nuclear weapons, Iran won't use them but some nut cases who get them from Iran or North Korea or Pakistan will.
Someone's going to light one of those nuke puppies up in a US city within the next 5 to 10 years.

The song "When They Drop the Bomb" is running through my head now.
I'm thinking it's inevitable.

I am not quite sure about what Saddam thought about Saddam, or what he truly thought about the world, or the collection to make his own world, which he struggled and died to defending. People like me, so distant from Saddam’s concept of reality would never quite understand his thoughts about his family, friends, his people, allies or enemies. I do think it’s much easier to simply demonize a person we all want to hate because it makes more sense to do so after they have demonstrated why we should scorn them for making us feel so afraid, helpless and angry.
As I read some of the comments in response to the article, I felt compelled to move beyond that innate sicken feeling in pit of my stomach to world leaders like Saddam. In fact, I wanted to have an independent thought—a moment expressing my intent to boastfully represent intelligence, or understanding that compels the imagination to do more than regurgitate, or voice form the end of the large intestine a word, a phrase, or just gas.
It was them that I realized that I have killed a few people in my time. In fact, to each death I has to attached a reason to make the death appear purposeful to my plot– to give value to the life I must take as a wannabe writer in search of a path that leads to more than my passion and conceit to overtly claim that I love the art form of composed thought that tells of who I intend to become before I am taken away, leaving only who I am presently, maybe back to being a better parent, that one act, that one piece.
I imagine that as a world leader it is often required to be less of a thinker and more as a doer…ahhh, let’s say if I was leading people from or into bondage. Of course, that would depend on my childhood ills or wells, culture, my spiritual and religious reasoning, my public and personal morals, my abilities, intelligence, education, paranoia and willingness to stay at the top no matter what.
How trite when you consider that the biggest decisions I had to make yesterday were whether or not to retaliate to the immaturity and embarrassment of one business associate, with equal immaturity and in a timely embarrassing moment, or if I should react to a second business associate who has a God-like complex much great in action than my own. Oh yes, and there was that reoccurring thought that owned every moment it reoccurred: not seeing my nine year old daughter for far too many months while she only lives a few miles away from me.
I wonder what she is thinking, right now. Does she know how much I love her? Does she know that we both love her in different ways? How could her mother not insist that she call her father on father’s Day? I did my very best when we were together, or did I? Does it really matter now? Maybe I’ll just go to my exxx house and make a scene to let my daughter know that I want to see her. No, I’ll wait on the lawyer to see what could be done, because I can’t stand to see that pain of confusion I once saw in her eyes—her wanting for things to be as they were before her mother and I decided to separate—normal, peaceful, a lie – but it was then the absence of a now reoccurring, deafening noise she hear when her mother and I share from the ends of our large intestines a word, a phrase, or more gases. Oh yes, Saddam! Right…well…of course, “we are the world, we are the children, we are the ones to make a bright day…” Oh yes, I just remembered that Michael Jackson died on his way back. Perhaps I’ll just take this moment to look in the mirror and see if it’s possible to really make a change, if only in my life so my daughter would know that this man was different by his choices.

Note to De' Kridge: TMI dude, keep it 150 words or less.
I didn't get past " realized that I have killed a few people in my time."
I did like the descriptive "or understanding that compels the imagination to do more than regurgitate, or voice form the end of the large intestine a word, a phrase, or just gas."

Sounds like you're familiar that type of expression.

Saddam has killed allot of Iraqis over the years. So how does that compare to the Iraqi lives lost in the sectarian killings and the two Gulf wars? In his own warped way he kept the lid on the sectarian conflicts through the only means they understood. Too bad he chose to thumb his nose at the US. He could have still been keeping Iran in check. But he was ruthless and our disgust for his tactics pricked at our desire to oust him. WMD or not; our "good intentions" have led us to the hell we are dealing with in the loss of our good men in the military, treasure, and now we have to deal with an arrogant Iranian administration. Our desire to do good needs to be balanced with a realism of a Pandora box that could be opened if we act.

MBell. You've just reiterated what both Eisenhower and Kennedy said long ago. This recession shows us that we are not capable of solving all of the world's problems. Furthermore, our interests in other countries has involved entirely too much exploitation of cheap labor, oil resources, etc. for us to even pretend anymore that we have the morality to lead the rest of the world.