Saddam Hussein and his supporters should be shot!

[Comité De Salut Public]

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/rumsfeld.80s.jpg

http://www.msnbc.com/news/1639839.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.....regime.change/ (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/)

[Jesus Christ]

yep, good picture

[Comrade Ceausescu]

Yes it is hypocritical.But just because Saddam shakes Rumsfeld's hand,does not mean he likes or supports him.Stalin shook Ribbentrop's hand,but went to war with his country a few years later.

[Fidel Castro]

Shaking hands with him is one thing, selling him chemical weapons then using those weapons as an excuse for war is quite another. <_<

[cormacobear]

They put him in power they gave him the weapons, and they watched him kill Iraqi&#39;s with them. They did nothing till he threatened another major oil producing counry. That is more than just a hand shake
( What about the U.S. shooting down the passenger flight during the Iraq Iran war)

[cubist]

i agree with cormacobear, this backs up what he said

taken from socialist worker sadams capture (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/1882/sw188209.htm)

The men in Washington who forged Saddam

&#39;We got him,&#39; crowed the US overlord in Iraq, Paul Bremer. &#39;We made him,&#39; is what he should have said, reports KEVIN OVENDEN

THE MEDIA are demanding Saddam Hussein be put on trial. But the people who should be in the dock are those who brought him to power, and then armed and financed his regime for years.

That would mean putting half the US government on trial.

For it was the CIA that first brought Saddam Hussein&#39;s Ba&#39;ath Party to power in 1963. And at key points over the next three decades it was successive US presidents, Western leaders, CIA directors and army chiefs of staff who kept him there.

In 1963 the regime of radical Iraqi army officer Abdul Karim Kassem was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA. A million people had celebrated on the streets of Baghdad five years previously when Kassem toppled the British-installed Iraqi monarchy.

Western leaders feared that one regime after another across the Middle East would fall into the hands of anti-Western leaders. The US in particular set about planning a coup, which came on 8 February 1963. A CIA radio station in Kuwait broadcast the names of Communist activists, which had been gathered from Saddam Hussein among others, to the Ba&#39;athists and army officers who toppled Kassem.

The US recognised the new government within hours. A bloodbath followed as the Ba&#39;athists and their allies butchered thousands of Communists and Kassem supporters. The US then began flying weapons to Iraq for the Ba&#39;athists to use against Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq

The toppling of Kassem was later described as the CIA&#39;s "favourite coup". James Critchfield, then head of the CIA in the Middle East later admitted, "We regarded it as a great victory."

The general secretary of the Ba&#39;ath Party said, "We came to power on a CIA train."

The Ba&#39;ath regime was deeply unpopular among ordinary Iraqis, and fell from power shortly after the 1963 coup. So the CIA helped it back to power five years later in 1968. Saddam soon became second in command.

He used his control of the Ba&#39;athists&#39; paramilitary wing to eliminate opposition from all quarters. They hanged Communist leaders with the nodding approval of the US president Nixon and his foreign policy chief Henry Kissinger.

[{scarface87}]

look we all kno that the U.S. turns its blind eye when it wants to. They did nothing when the shi&#39;ites rebelled even tho bush senior said he would support an uprising. They intervene when it suits them&#33; May i also remind you that Britian, France and the U.S. were selling weapons to both sides during the Iran Iraq war of 1980-1988. These Capatalists dont really care about the people of Iraq. They invaded for 2 things&#33; the humiliation of the Arab world and to untie the second largest oil reserves in the world&#33; :angry: