PressCoverage

an excellent essay... let's wait and see certain Bunker-ites blast another Vietman Vet for speaking out against something that just seems wrong all the way around...

Death of One Tyrant a Coverup of Crime by Another


By Wm. Terry Leichner

Once again the barbarians have succeeded in professing human dignity while ignoring human life's sanctity. My thoughts are filled with disgust as the so called civilized world revels in the hanging of Saddam Hussein yesterday.

Don't mistake my total distaste of the execution of Hussein for any alliance or sympathy for the tyrant killer. I just tire of the "morally superior" position of this nation (U.S.) when it comes to the administration's posturing around the capture, trial and execution of the man our government installed in the first place.

We did the same thing with Noriega in Panama and Diem in Vietnam. This names only a couple of many tyrants our nation has been responsible for bringing to power and maintaining in power at the expense of their own citizens.

Let's not forget the now infamous photo of Donald Rumsfeld warmly greeting Saddam back in the 1980's when it was ever so convenient to have a dictator in charge of a country with the second largest oil reserve in the world.

Let's not forget how we encouraged an uprising against Saddam after Gulf War I and then abandoned the rebels to be killed and tortured by his ruthless police.

Let's not forget when sanctions were in place, blocking even humanitarian aid such as medical supplies and water purification, Dick Cheney went around the rules that made it a crime to provide any supplies. By using the European branch of Halliburton (he was CEO at the time) Cheney helped supply Saddam with pipe for the oil fields. No doubt the costs were marked up and Halliburton made a tidy profit.

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The execution of Saddam is "mission accomplished" for George Bush in covering up ever increasing evidence of his illegal actions to usurp Iraqi rights to their own natural resources.

The execution is his continued message to the American people that we have the inalienable right to do what we want by any means necessary.

So, let us not pat ourselves on the back in congratulations for the hanging of the tyrant, Saddam. We haven't proved our morality or our great respect for life. We've proved just the opposite. We've proved our continued immoral foreign policy is designed to further our greed and power in the world. We've proved the lives of our own young and the innocent citizens of any nation are expendable to support lies, illegality and immorality. And we've proved our disdain and disrespect for human lives.

In today's news, parents of American troops killed are quoted as pleased with the execution because it gives meaning to the deaths of their children. Sadly, the death of Saddam only provides further proof of the tragic loss of their children to an illegal and unnecessary war.

As the song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" intones, "…when will they ever learn?"

Wm. Terry Leichner, RN

Wm. Terry Leichner is a founding member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War(VVAW)'s Denver chapter (1971). He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a combat infantryman in Vietnam (1967-1969). For more information, please visit www.combatvetsvisionsofpeace.com

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PressCoverage

i do find it extremely odd that the trial vanished from the spotlight after the first week, when Saddam was making such a nuisance of the proceedings...

why no major American press present and dictating Saddam's rants?

why no major European press detailing what the man was trying to say? he was completely muzzled to the Western ears and eyes...

we'll likely never know what Saddam had to say about the past 26 years of American foreign policy in the Middle East... we couldn't dare have that, now could we?... "make him dead, and quickly, please"...

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PressCoverage

you're quite possibly the worst, most irrelevant poster i've ever encountered on any message forum... when you make a point, supported with links or facts, it'll be a first...

PatsFanInEaglesLand

So you don't think the same would apply to Blair, Chirac, Putin, Mubarak, King of Jordan, ect...............?

Do you not think that if he was saying something like that Syria, Iran or Chavez would of let the world know?

Fogbuster

Whoa!! Are YOU saying Saddam didn't throw people off of roofs? didn't have rape rooms for wives, daughters and mothers of his enemies, where the men had to watch their women getting gang raped before they themselves were shredded in plastic-shredding machines? that Saddam didn't drop nerve gas on WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND OLD INVALID PEOPLE???

Get a life in reality, presscoverage; stop this insane crucifixion of GWB!! He has his faults, so let's deal with them CONSTRUCTIVELY not with the goal of taking off his head. The crucifixion of Nixon was purely evil enough. Because of it, Billy boy had to be impeached. But, if you try it again with Bush, the streets of America will be painted red with the blood of millions, NOT because anyone says so but because such blind hatred of these presidents will not allow any other outcome.

Fogbuster

I won't disagree that GWB has been moved by more than a little vengeance toward Saddam -- Saddam DID try to kill GB senior, after all -- yet Saddam clearly made more enemies in the world than just Geo W Bush. Even those hooded guys at the gallows probably hate Bush almost as much as they hated Saddam.

So Bush's issues do not make him anywhere near a "criminal of the worst kind", NEM. Hatred of anybody is never a healthy thing. In the case of a president of the nation the world is expecting to show a better way, it is suicide. Don't do it. Turn your feelings into the desire to help your fellow man, no matter how much you disagree with him; you'll be surprised at how much that good will can come back to help you when you least expect it.


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Real World

I'm still trying to figure out what the man who wrote the articles point was. Someone explain it to me like I'm a 2 year old please.

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