U.S.-ordered rush job

[ProgressiveMuslim]

The American government wanted Saddam Hussein executed for the Dujail killings to avoid revealing its complicity in his bigger crimes.
By Gwynne Dyer

It was not the Iraqi government but its American masters who chose to execute Saddam Hussein in a great rush as soon as the first sentence was confirmed, thus canceling all of the other trials on far graver charges that awaited him. The current Iraqi government had nothing to hide if those trials went ahead; the United States government did.

Cast your mind back to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Washington's pretext for war then was Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, with barely a word about bringing democracy to the downtrodden Iraqi people. But to persuade us that Saddam's WMD were a threat to the whole world, we were told a lot about how wicked he was, how he had even "gassed his own people."


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16370537.htm

[Benhurst]

1. The truth will out despite the corporate news blitz. NT

[ixion]

2. as always, they've promoted what they sought to reject

In one ham-fisted, drunken-sailor swipe, they've made Saddam a martyr and brought the subject they sought to hide (US involvement in Saddam's war crimes) to the forefront.

You neocons are some bright boys, yes siree. :freak: :dunce:

[speedoo]

3. Was this in the Philly Inquirer? Wow.

The MSM seems to be really waking up.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. I was pretty surprised myself... n/t