What about all of the other dictator your government supports? aren't you going to hang them?
your government only needs democracy when it suits its interest, otherwise its a well known fact that your gov has helped overthrow democracies in other countries!
Northern Iraq is a safe haven for PKK terrorists, is that what you call "booming"?
get your facts straight, more than 1 million iraqis were killed due to your countries imperialism:
#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored
And let us not forget the 2 million innocent lives who died due to the sanctions (genocide) imposed in 1991:
Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
I'm really surprised to hear this from an American, its a well known fact that your country has killed more people, nuked Japan (WMD), occupied more countries, and threatened the sovereignty of others more than Saddam has through out the time he ruled Iraq (with the support of the west)!
And speaking of WMD's your army has been using Depleted Uranium rounds in Falujjah and other parts of Iraq and this in turn has caused many deaths and disorders amongst the newborn Iraqi children:
YouTube - ‪Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah as reported by The Guardian‬‎
do you think these deformed children feel liberated? Do you think their parents feel liberated seeing their children in such a helpless state? In fact you Americans have just destroyed a whole generation of Iraqis! "Operation Iraqi freedom" my foot!
No it was billions of Iraqis , not million, if you are not going to have any regard for the truth or facts why stop with just a million or so.
Iraq Body Count
and while you and Iraq Body Count would like to blame every death on the USA, blame it where it belongs.
Now as for Sanctions,, you are using the bodys of children for propganda purpose same as Saddam.
Dr Amer Abdul a-Jalil, the deputy resident at Baghdad's Ibn al-Baladi Hospital, has told the London Telegraph that "sanctions did not kill these children -- Saddam killed them".
"Over the past 10 years, the government in Iraq poured money into the military and the construction of palaces for Saddam to the detriment of the health sector," he said.
"Those babies or small children who died because they could not access the right drugs, died because Saddam's government failed to distribute the drugs."
As the hospital's chief resident, Dr Hussein Shihab, confirmed to Newsday: "We had the ability to get all the drugs we needed. Instead of that, Saddam Hussein spent all the money on his military force and put all the fault on the USA. I am one of the doctors who was forced to tell something wrong -- that these children died from the fault of the UN."
Dr Azhar Abdul Khadem, a resident at Baghdad's Al-Alwiya maternity hospital agreed: "Saddam Hussein, he's the murderer, not the UN."
In fact, Dr Oasem al-Taye, who now runs the Baghdad Children's Hospital, said last week that after Saddam's fall he'd found plenty of medical supplies and equipment at a hospital once reserved for leaders of Saddam's regime.
"They were willing to sacrifice the children for the sake of propaganda," he said bitterly.
THE parades of dead children were part of that same propaganda.
Doctors say hospitals were forced to keep the bodies of babies who had died prematurely or of natural causes for up to two months until Saddam had enough to stage a parade of the little corpses, with women bussed in to act as "mourners", screaming insults at the US in front of television cameras.
"All 10 hospitals in Baghdad were involved in this and the quota for the parade was between 25 and 30 babies a month, which they would say had died in one day," Dr Hussein al-Douri, deputy director of the Ibn al-Baladi hospital, told the Telegraph.
Muslims traditionally bury their dead immediately, so keeping the bodies of the babies added to the grief of their parents.
"The mothers would be hysterical and sometimes threaten to kill us," said al-Douri, "but we knew that the real threat was from the government. They would have killed our families."
Why didn't more commentators understand this?
Why didn't they assume we might expect such crimes, such lies, from a savage dictatorship?
It is not enough to say such folk had no way of knowing the truth, given Iraqis were too terrified to tell it. Some people did try to expose the hoax, but few would listen -- just as Left gurus like Noam Chomsky refused to believe Cambodian refugees who tried to tell us of Pol Pot's genocide.
In 1999, for instance, Saddam was caught smuggling baby milk and children's medicines to India.
Last year, the BBC interviewed an Iraqi refugee who told how the parades of coffins were run. And human rights groups warned for years of Saddam's depravity.
But too often, it seems, our intellectual class preferred to hear the stories that confirmed its prejudices against the West. See, even now, how eagerly it believed the lie that Baghdad's antiquities museum had been cleaned out by looters -- perhaps even by the barbaric Yanks.
WHAT made this phenomenon worse is that under Saddam too many Baghdad-based correspondents were too scared to tell the full truth about him.
CNN has now admitted censoring reports of Saddam's brutality that could get its Baghdad correspondents into trouble, and the ABC's Mark Willacy conceded he faced a dilemma: "Do you fully report what you're seeing and what you're hearing or do you hold back in case you get deported?"
The answer for the diplomatic correspondent of Britain's Channel 4 News was to hold back.
"There was one occasion when we did censor ourselves," Lindsey Hilsum admitted last week.
She'd decided not to report that the US was right -- that she'd seen for herself on the night of the deadly explosion in a Baghdad market that Iraq was indeed hiding missile launchers in residential areas.
"If I'd said that, I think we would have been thrown out the next day," she said.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. I wonder if we even dare recognise true evil any more.
This is one small gain we can take, then, from the war in Iraq. What we learn now of the horror that gripped Iraq may end our dangerous and wilful ignorance.
There is such a thing as evil in this world, after all. And, believe me, it isn't us.
Suffer the children [Fisk, Pilger, BBC Lies Documented]
Lot of peace groups, anti war groups blame Depleted Uranium for all kinds of things,, there is no proof and its highly debatable.
You know what I see in these Chat rooms is very depressing, it how little discussion that there is about what produces these evil butchers, what produces so many people willing to blow up women and children, and so many poor and unfree countries. But usually its just the same old arrogance, as if it's the West that has to apologise for being rich and free.
Have you ever though about things in reverse:
Like Thomas Friedman, 3 Dec 2008, on the hypocrisy and silence of the Muslim world after Mumbai: "After all, if 10 young Indians from a splinter wing of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they were cradling their 2-year-old son - purely because they were Sunni Muslims - where would we be today? The entire Muslim world would be aflame and in the streets."
