OTHER COMMENTS: William Rivers Pitt:

“My cell phone has been buzzing with regularity all day, alerting me to the arrival of text messages from my conservative friends. ‘Saddam is dead woohoo’ reads the latest one, and that pretty much describes all the others. Somehow, a lot of people are finding meaning or gratification in the fact that Hussein met his fate at the end of a rope Saturday morning. I just can’t get there,” says William Rivers Pitt.

Herb Forestal:

“As Noam Chomsy had pointed out, a foreign policy by and for business interests does not change. It was the U.S. who encouraged Hussein to attack Iran for 8 years building up his army and feeding him arms support. Hussein has been hanged and our corporate press applauds this. But Hussein spent oil money on roads and schools and hospitals. These lie in ruins now not because of hanged dictator Hussein but for the lies and bombings of Freedom-Loving Regime-Changer-Emancipator George W. Bush.

Kola Odetola on Media Lens Board:

Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, but as president of Iraq, he represented something which nobody ever talks about these days, the sovereignty of his nation, by his judicial murder by a foreign invader the sovereignty of every poor third world nation has just been executed. The reason why the left in the west cares so little about that is because the sovereignty of poor nations is as much a threat to them as it is to their ruling circles.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29427&hd=&size=1&l=e

Reza Noroozpour writes from Iran:

Saddam was executed. Yes, what a nice and simultaneously bad news. As an Iranian who suffered a lot from Saddam, I hated him for almost whole of my life. But it was not proper time for his execution.

Saddam was a villain who killed hundred thousands of innocent people by his madness and cruelty. Undoubtedly he deserved to be hanged, but it was a strange hurry in his execution. I mean he should have been alive to answer a lot of questions and mysterious things about Iran- Iraq war and even the invasion to Kuwait.

Why did he dare to invade to Iran? It was because of US-UK full support. It was US which let Saddam attack Iran and it was her to let him use chemical weapons against his people and Iranian people.

It was the western countries which equipped him with all he wanted during the Iran- Iraq war, especially chemical weapons.

So by his execution who will tell us the big role of US and UK in all the crises in the region for he was responsible for? What has happened to all those who benefited from Saddam’s reign of terror in the region?

Do you believe that Saddam was the only man and the only thought behind all these crises, crime and terror in the region?

Why wasn’t Donald Rumsfeld hanged for cooperation with this tyrant? Why wasn’t president of US trailed for killing so many innocent humans during a useless invade in Iraq?|

JOURNALIST Chris Floyd writes:

The actual total number of wars launched by Saddam Hussein was, er, two: the same number launched by George W. Bush — if, that is, you don’t count the never-ending, ever-expanding, great googily-moogily “Global War on Terror and Extremists and Radicals,” in which case, Bush’s “continual wars” far exceed the two conflicts instigated by Saddam — one of which was overtly approved by Reagan Administration, the other tacitly approved by the Bush I administration.

RICHARD DECHART comments:

"While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim."

--From "Saddam key in early CIA plot," by Richard Sale, United Press International, April 10, 2003

"It won't be long before Saddam's crimes will be forgotten by most in Iraq and the Middle East--but songs will be sung, legends told, movies made about his American-controlled kangaroo trial and execution, and future generations of angry insurrection will be inspired.

"And once captured, Saddam could have faced justice in an international tribunal, but if he had, there were all sorts of true stories he could have told about American complicity in his crimes. So instead he was given an obviously rigged trial in an Iraqi court, surrounded by American soldiers and overseen by American authorities, and then he was executed."

--From "Saddam Hussein: America's man in Iraq," by Helen & Harry Highwater, UnknownNews, Dec. 30, 2006

These are two of several Unknown News reports on the maniacal monster the CIA—under ten U.S. Presidents--created then protectively destroyed. The others are at:
. Also see Robert Parry’s analysis at: .

A horrible end to a horrible year in Iraq. May 2007 be a better one.

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