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2006-09-12 Iraq
Saddam Tells Countrymen to Feel No Guilt Over Kurd Deaths
A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein’s forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed yesterday. The lunatic feisty former leader told his countrymen they should not feel guilty for crushing the Kurdish insurgency in the late 1980s. “My message to the Iraqi people is that they should not suffer from the guilt that they killed Kurds,” Saddam said shortly before the trial was adjourned for the day. It had just resumed after a three-week break.

The ousted president accused Kurdish witnesses against him of stirring sectarianism and racism. “All the witnesses said in the courtroom that they were oppressed because they were Kurds,” Saddam shouted. “They’re trying to create strife between the people of Iraq. They’re trying to create division between Kurds and Arabs and this is what I want the people of Iraq to know.”

The prosecution alleges that about 180,000 people were killed during the Anfal campaign in 1987-88 to crush a Kurdish insurgency during the later stages of a war with Iran. Addressing Iraqis, Saddam said passionately that the Kurds enjoyed rights under his regime and that he clamped down on insurgents among them.

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He said before Iraq fought in the 2003 war against the United States, “I formed two brigades in the Republican Guards composed completely of Kurds. This is a proof that the Iraqi government then did not discriminate against Kurds.” “The other proof is that when I was in Kut following the victory against Iran (in 1988), I said in front of everyone, including the media and television stations, that I prohibit the security to arrest any Kurd,” he said.

“I told them that anyone who has a complaint against a Kurd has to come to me first.” “I didn’t offer the same, and God is my witnesses, to the people of Basra or my family in Tikrit, but only to the Kurds,” he asserted.
Posted by Fred 2006-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 a true humanitarian. Senator Rockefeller (D- liketherest) should be sooo proud
Posted by Frank G 2006-09-12 00:35||   2006-09-12 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Three week recess? Is it just me or is Saddam's circus making the O.J. trial look positively speedy by comparison?
Posted by PBMcL 2006-09-12 01:45||   2006-09-12 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 During the intervals the feisty Mr. Hussein goes back to his little cell, where he sees nobody but his captors, washes his own underthings, and goes outside perhaps one hour per day -- or perhaps not, I don't really know. The big excitement of his life is to go back to the courtroom where, despite his feisty bravado, he is reminded at every moment that others rule what used to tremble at his whim. A quick death would have been ever so much less humiliating to him... but this is instructive to the rest of the Arab world (I'm sure the Persians see no reason to apply such a lesson to themselves, being so much more ancient of history and civilization, after all.)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-12 07:13||   2006-09-12 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 My message to the Iraqi people is that they should not suffer from the guilt that they killed Kurds
Duh! Because they didn't kill them, you did, a**hole!
Bailiff - gag the prisoner!
Posted by Spot">Spot  2006-09-12 09:00||   2006-09-12 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 They can't hang him soon enough.
Posted by Darrell 2006-09-12 11:07||   2006-09-12 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 ROE - next time just throw the grenades without pins, down the rat hole first. Screw the Intel boys. Soldier's option.
Posted by Snock Uleth9594 2006-09-12 11:17||   2006-09-12 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Spot, he did have help. Let's not allow anyone to make the "I was just following orders" defense.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2006-09-12 13:42||   2006-09-12 13:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Eric-
True to some extent, but my point was that Sammy was trying to shift the blame off himself.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2006-09-12 13:53||   2006-09-12 13:53|| Front Page Top

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