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naiad
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posted November 16, 2006 01:53 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bush's November surprise
Show trial for Hussein ignores deep ties to United States

How convenient for Saddam Hussein to be convicted two days before the midterm election by a United States-elected and -directed court, providing President Bush with his much-needed November surprise. How irresponsible for the mass media to neglect to point out that the "crimes against humanity" for which Hussein was convicted occurred 15 months before Donald Rumsfeld, then the special envoy to Iraq, met with Hussein in Baghdad to develop an alliance between the administration of Ronald Reagan and that of the murderous Iraqi dictator.

The record of that trip, an enormous stain on our nation's human rights record, is detailed in State Department memoranda readily available on the Internet. Rumsfeld journeyed to Baghdad as President Reagan's special envoy after the bloody crackdown in the town of Dujail. Ironically, Hussein's terror campaign was a response to an assassination attempt on his life by Shiite militants belonging to the party now in power in Baghdad, thanks to President Bush's invasion.

Back then, Rumsfeld and the Reagan administration he represented viewed the Iraqi Shiites, who detested Hussein, with suspicion, considering them natural allies of their co-religionists in Iran. Rumsfeld's mission was explicitly intended to align the United States with Hussein's Iraq and offer military support in the ongoing war with the Iranian ayatollahs, regarded as our main enemy in the Mideast.

Rumseld met with Hussein in December 1983 and returned again on March 24, 1984 --the very same day the United Nations released a report that Iraq had committed war crimes by using mustard gas and tabun nerve agent against Iranian troops. "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with Iraq and the U.S., and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been established in all but name," The New York Times reported five days later.

The official transcripts of Rumsfeld's report on his meetings with then-Iraq Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Hussein himself make clear that our defense secretary never even mentioned the brutal suppression of the Dujail Shiites, which has now earned the dictator a death sentence. The diplomatic message was clear: Hussein's brutality, and even his use of chemical weapons, was not an obstacle to warm relations between the United States and Iraq.

"I said I thought we had areas of common interest, particularly the security and stability in the (Persian) Gulf, which had been jeopardized as a result of the Iranian revolution," Rumsfeld wrote in a memo to the U.S. secretary of state, summarizing his meeting with Aziz. "I added that the U.S. had no interest in an Iranian victory. To the contrary, we would not want Iran's influence expanded at the expense of Iraq. As with all nations, we respect Iraq's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity."

Clearly, Rumsfeld, brought back to the White House more than a decade later by President Bush the Younger, had by then lost whatever interest he might have had in "Iraq's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity." But even at the time, his high-minded rhetoric bore no relation to reality: At no point did Rumsfeld ever criticize Iraq's invasion of Iran, which had actually started the eight-year-long war, one of history's ugliest. Nor did Rumsfeld indicate in any way that Hussein might be associated with terrorism.

According to news reports and official affidavits, Reagan had decided as early as 1982 that the United States could not afford to allow Iraq to lose. Indeed, the United States would become the major supporter of Iraq's war efforts, funneling billions of dollars in cash, arms and so-called dual-use technologies through intermediary channels. The United States directly sold $200 million in helicopters to Hussein's regime, and our allies were encouraged by Reagan to be just as accommodating.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even sent Iraq 14 agents "with biological warfare significance," including West Nile virus, according to U.S. Senate investigators, in a 1994 report led by Sen. Donald Riegle. Another Senate committee report, also in 1994, detailed 70 shipments of dangerous biological strains, including anthrax bacillus, which later were found to be "identical to those the U.N. inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program," the Senate Banking Committee report said.

A fair international tribunal judging Hussein's many crimes would have provided a venue for exposing the tyrant's international backers, led by the United States and its allies. That is why this trial was conducted, at Bush's insistence, not in a neutral setting, but rather in occupied Iraq. While this arrangement served Bush's domestic political agenda, as a means of dispensing justice it is an outrage befitting a president who has besmirched the ideals of democracy in the eyes of the world.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21622

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Petron
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posted November 16, 2006 03:28 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote


"looks like yer up tha creek without a paddle saddy-boy!!"


"But wait a minute..!! He's the one who gave me the satellite intelligence,the helicopters, and chemicals for the vx gas!!!"


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Petron
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posted November 16, 2006 03:38 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Saddam Silenced For Fingering US In Iraq Bombings
One show trial ends prematurely, another begins

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 15 2006

After the murder of Slobo Milosevic prevented the true Butchers of Serbia, Wes Clark and Bill Clinton, from being brought to justice, on the very first day of Saddam Hussein's testimony the judge turned off his microphone and ordered all media to leave following Saddam's comments that the civil war in Iraq is being deliberately fueled by the US.

Over the past few weeks we have highlighted Israeli and US foreign policy documents that actually encourage not deter the break out of civil war in Iraq. Decades old blueprints document how inter-Arab conflict would be beneficial to the Neo-Cons, initiating ethnic cleansing in Iraq and drawing in Iran and Syria to provide a pretext to expand the war.

Several highly suspicious events over the past year, such as the Samarra Mosque bombing and the staged SAS attack on Iraqi police, have brought this eventuality closer.

High profile trials like those of Milosevic and Hussein often backfire because top level criminality on the part of the US government and its international henchmen NATO and the UN is always exposed by the defendant.

The Hague were losing the case against Milosevic because he provided documented evidence of US government support of Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden in the late 1990's and was about to call Bill Clinton as a witness.

Similarly, Saddam's defense consists of he fact that the chemical and biological weapons allegedly used to poison residents of Halabja in March 1988 were sold to him by the US government and specifically Donald Rumsfeld.

Today, Hussein fingered the hidden hand behind the staged bombings in Iraq and his microphone was immediately shut off by the judge. From the AP,

"What pains me most is what I heard recently about something that aims to harm our people," Saddam said. "My conscience tells me that the great people of Iraq have nothing to do with these acts."

"As Saddam continued reading from a prepared text, the judge repeatedly closed his microphone to prevent his words from being heard and told him to address the charges against him. Saddam ignored the judge and continued speaking."

"What happened in the last days is bad," he said, referring to the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya shrine in the city of Samarra. "You will live in darkness and rivers of blood for no reason."

"Finally, Abdel-Rahman ordered the session closed to the public, telling journalists to leave the chamber. The delayed video feed also was cut.

"The court has decided to turn this into a secret and closed session," he said."

Since all transcripts of the trial are edited before their release we have no idea of the full extent of Saddam's comments. To emphasize how much of a dog and pony show trial this is, it was also reported that the entire trial was subject to a practice run before it even began, so the puppet judge is just working to a script and the whole farce has already been staged. Even the Financial Times of London remarked that this was "bizarre."

Neo-Cons and Globalists are sweating on the speculation that Saddam has cancer and will die before any damaging testimony leaks out. If not, don't be surprised if Saddam gets 'Slobo'd' and has a nasty accident or bizarrely decides to take the wrong drugs.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/150306saddamsilenced.htm

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TINK
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posted November 16, 2006 09:14 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"My conscience tells me ..."

that's cute

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DayDreamer
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posted November 18, 2006 12:11 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Naiad & Petron good articles! I wonder what those who defend Bush and the Republican regime have to say about this?

Petron your cartoons are always so dead on, I cant help laughing.

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Petron
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posted November 18, 2006 06:52 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Saddams conscience

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