Masters of creating Disasters: Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld at Rumsfeld's 19-gun farewell ceremony at the Pentagon mere days ago. (The official salute to heads of state is just two guns more, for 21.)
In earlier times, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush Sr. were partners with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. As recently as the late 1990s, Dick Cheney was dealing with Saddam, skirting the US-enforced UN economic sanctions on Iraq as Cheney's Halliburton corporation used European subsidiaries to supply Saddam's regime with modern oil-drilling technology. That Al Gore (and joe lieberman and the whore press/media) DID NOT make an issue of Dick Cheney's Halliburton DEALINGS WITH SADDAM in 1998 as Chairman and CEO of HALLIBURTON company; or Rumsfeld's infamous shaking-hands with Saddam video from 1983, is one of the great political blunders of the past century.... and that is saying a lot.
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(update 12-31-06: cellphone video posted showing moments of Saddam's execution, and Riverbend's translations of Saddam's last words that contradict CNN sloppy editorializing, at bottom of this post.)
(click on our headline link above for the BBC video of the moments leading up to the execution.)
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The Saddam Hussein trial and execution were a gross travesty of justice this last week of 2006, if only because if Saddam was on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, he should have been taken to the Hague and given a proper, internationally supervised trial. Instead the US government of George W. Bush opted for pushing a speedy mock trial for Saddam, and an even more speedy execution.
Although the Bush administration (i.e. the United States government) pretends that the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi affair, by the "SOVEREIGN NATION of Iraq," only the American whore/press media are stupid enough to believe that Saddam's hanging that took place in an AMERICAN RUN PRISON in Iraq was the doing of a "SOVEREIGN" Iraqi government.
In other words, America's great "Decider In Chief" HAS SCREWED UP YET ANOTHER major propaganda issue, for the next 100 years Sunni hate-America terrorists (al Qaida, who ironically hated Saddam almost as much as they hated America) will be able to point out to the CHARADE of a "sovereign government of Iraq" being forced to hang Saddam in an American prison as the Bush administration and Maliki puppet government rushed to have Saddam hanged.
Nine of ten of "Saddam hanged" news stories in the US don't even mention that Saddam's last words were a muttered rebuttal to the words of a hangman, who shouted "Long live Muqtada al Sadr!" at Saddam moments before the trapdoor sprung for Saddam's fatal fall. Muqtada al Sadr is the SHIITE "radical" anti-American cleric whose forces have been having running gun battles with US soldiers in Iraq since the earliest days of the occupation. Al Sadr's Shiite cleric father was killed by Saddam in one of the dictator's many reprisal/mass murder episodes - a piece of history (the execution of an al Sadr cleric) that many Americans are clamoring for today, especially the "expert commentators" hired by Rupert Murdoch at FOX 'news.'
Indeed, a NEW YORK TIMES report LIES about the circumstances of Saddam's execution, reporter Marc Santora saying about the hanging that "the details were unknown and SHROUDED IN MYSTERY," even though this website was able to view video of the execution, and dozens of much better reports, within a 20 minute web search.
SUCH is the state of "reporting" at the whore New York Times. (Video link to Santora's report at bottom of this post.)
(The BBC video has a far better report than the Times' typically propagandistic non-informative, few details report.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_6210000/newsid_6218700/nb_rm_6218731.stm
Regardless, the fact remains that under Saddam's SECULAR Baathist regime, WOMEN were among the most empowered in the Arab and Muslim world - while across the border in America's "friendly" allies Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, women are not even permitted to drive autos. They (women) are ONE HALF of the population, so it will be a long, long time before that segment of the population (women) in Iraq (or Afghanistan) will see as much "freedom" as they once enjoyed under Saddam's regime. Stalin, too, as well as Turkey's regime under Attaturk, executed many radically conservative (reactionary) mullahs for whom keeping women as chattel property was an inherent element of their "religious" society.
Regardless of the 'freedom' or lack thereof for women in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Arab world, the Muslim world, in Central Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, the fact remains that the US administrations of George H. W. Bush (Sr.) and Ronald Reagan were STAUNCH SUPPORTERS of Saddam's regime, all the way until Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in early 1991. (Saddam justified his invasion by accusing the Kuwaiti emir of reneging on war repayment billions owed to Iraq, and for Kuwaiti "SLANT DRILLING" into Iraq. (Which Kuwait is almost certainly doing at the present, slant-drilling technology being 20 years more advanced than it was in 1991.)
The Reagan/Bush administrations were SUCH staunch supporters of Iraq, that they glossed over the Iraqi Mirage Exocet missile attack on the USS Starke in the 9180s, and the US government continued to fund and equip Saddam with __ WMD PRECURSOR TECHNOLOGIES__ during the entire Iran-Iraq war time frame. It was during this period of US FINANCIAL and WEAPONS SUPPORT FOR SADDAM's REGIME that President Reagan SENT DON RUMSFELD as PERSONAL EMISSARY to Saddam, to say in effect to Saddam: "Continue to use poison gas and aerial bombings of Iranian positions as you need - WE (America) will look askance and continue to support your efforts in the war despite world-wide outrage at your use of poison gas on Kurdish towns and villages and Iranian positions."
This American Machiavellian double-dealing and support for mass-murder continued into the early 1990s when George H. W. Bush was president, even after Saddam's forces had been defeated militarily by the US coalition in the Kuwait war. According to the US imposed cease fire treaty, Saddam's forces were prohibited from using aircraft and attack helicopters after the war. But despite President Bush encouraging Shiite, Kurdish, and other minorities to rebel against the Saddam regime, the Bush/Chenny/Rumsfeld Department of Defence DID NOTHING as Saddam unleashed his savage reprisals on those Kurdish and Shiite rebels following the rebellion immediately after the US-Iraq ceasefire. Indeed, the US command was well aware of the reprisals, which killed up to 300,000 Shiites alone, as some of the mass-executions took place in full view of US infantry positions, some of which US positions were still within the Iraq border at that point. See Galbraith's "The End of Iraq" for a first-person witness report of the carnage carried out with the APPROVAL of the Bush-Rumsfeld-Cheney Department of Defense in 1991 as Saddam killed thousands during the rebellion encouraged by President George H. W. Bush (Sr.)
One man hanged for his war crimes... another given a full pomp-and-circumstance 19-gun celebrity send-off from the US military Department of Defense despite launching a brutal war on false pretenses, with NO plan for a safe and secure post-invasion occupation; and representing two decades of US double-dealing with the very dictator hanged for his crimes. Such is "justice" in god's brutal world.
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NYT reporter Marc Santora LIES about the details of Saddam's executions, saying they were "unknown" and "shrouded in mystery" although the entire world is able to view the video:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a28ed9693:10fd45c42da:-36ff&st=1167504611471&mp=FLV&cpf=false&fvn=9&fr=123006_112601_20ca33a9x10fd42175c1xw29ce&rdm=528946.8772378503
In a similar vein, New York's old grey whore, the New York Times, published photos of Saddam's hanging on the front page, above the fold, to mark their joy for the lynching of America's old war partner. Not even New York TABLOIDS the Post or Sun (nor any other national paper) followed the Times' whorific lead.
Saddam's execution, no audio:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=670967824425254759&q=saddam+hanged&hl=en
BBC's posting of the above Iraqi feed video, with some BBC commenary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_6210000/newsid_6218700/nb_rm_6218731.stm
BBC's relatively informative article (5 times as informative as the Whore NY Times article):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218875.stm
The Nation (US magazine) editorial "A Show Trial and Show Execution"
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15
purported cell-phone video of Saddam's hanging in US prison, posted on the web:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5543085919122001921&q=saddam+hanging&hl=en
Baghdad Burning's translation from Arabic of Saddam's last moments:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_riverbendblog_archive.html
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