Whos the Real Tyrant?

From Human Rights Watch:

At the top of any indictment should be Saddam's 1988 genocidal Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds, described by Jeffrey Goldberg in this week's New Yorker. Named after a Koranic verse justifying pillage of the property of infidels, the Anfal campaign unfolded as the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war was winding down. Iraqi Kurds had taken advantage of Saddam's preoccupation with Iran to seize control of parts of mountainous northern Iraq. But as soon as Iraqi troops could be withdrawn from the Iranian front, Saddam shifted them to the north.

Several thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed, forcing residents to live in appalling camps. In at least 40 cases, Iraqi forces under Saddam's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, used chemical weapons to kill and chase Kurds from their villages. Then, during the Anfal campaign from February to September 1988, Iraqi troops swept through the highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan rounding up everyone who remained in government-declared 'prohibited zones.' Some 100,000 Kurds, mostly men and boys, were trucked to remote sites and executed. Only seven are known to have escaped.

The full scope of the Anfal horror became known only after Saddam's defeat in the Gulf War. The Iraqi military's withdrawal from the region in October 1991 after the imposition of a no-fly zone made it feasible for the first time in years for outsiders to reach the area.

Human Rights Watch investigators took advantage of this opening to enter northern Iraq and document Saddam's crimes. Some 350 witnesses and survivors were interviewed. Mass graves were exhumed. And Kurdish rebels were convinced to hand over some 18 tons of documents that they had seized during the brief post-war uprising from Iraqi police stations. These documents were airlifted to Washington, where Human Rights Watch researchers poured through this treasure trove of information about the inner workings of a ruthless regime.

{:^D Oh! The Pain! The Pain! It's unbearable... It's inhuman, it's an especially good idea... {:^D for one who has been in send-only mode for so long Fitting reprise for Clinton haute-couture of Lawlessness which made him so.

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Idi Amin killed hundreds of thousands of people.
http://www.multied.com/bio/people/amin.html

Idi Amin was a sergeant in the British colonial army. After Uganda's independence, Amin rose in the Ugandan armed forces to the position of Commander-in-Chief. In 1971, Amin seized control of the government. Amin was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans. In 1976, he offered safe haven to Palestinian hijackers, who were subsequently killed when Israel rescued the hostages at Entebbe. In 1979, Tanzanian troops invaded Uganda and forced Amin into exile. Amin led out the rest of his life in Saudi Arabi were he died from natural causes in 2003.

Yes the $25,000 he gave to the families of homicide bombers was very

So it's all right to gas someone if you don't like them? I am going out to buy some mustard gas and give the Dixie Chicks some medicine

Please don't, the Chicks are all right. I just wanted to say that before you take somebody's side, find out who it is that you are siding with. Clinton, for example, took the side of Albanian Muslims who infiltrated Kosova and started pushing the Serbs out of their own country. Milosevic was doing what the President is supposed to do trying to stop that onslaught of migrating Muslims. If Clinton cared to consult with Interpol before starting to bomb Milosevic, he would have found out that Albanian Muslims (expelled from communist Albania) were the most dreaded Mafiosi in Europe. Of course, those Mafiosi also had wives and kids and mothers, but so do rats that invade our homes! Does that stop exterminators?

You obviously had no idea what I was saying about Idi Amin back in the 1970's (the Internet didn't exist then).

You could ask.

I'm siding with young Kurdish children (including babies and infants) who weren't old enough to understand any politics

Human Rights Watch would be the first ones to say that none of these things comes close to what Saddam did.

Our country's hands have never been 100% clean. But Saddam's hands are 0% clean.

Shouldn't the US uphold a higher standard, and be held to a higher standard? It is not a case of just not being as bad as some tyrant or another. As far as 200,000 people being murdered, Guatemala comes to mind...