No, not George W. Bush, we're talking about the piker, Saddam Hussein. How many did he kill in order to justify the death penalty?
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How Many Did He Kill?
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo at 01:40 PM
The U.S. government's killing of Saddam Hussein has me confused: Regime mouthpiece Bill O'Reilly shouted that "he killed a million people." Then a short while later, one of the Regime mouthpiece news-babes on the same Regime apologist network announced that he was sentenced to death because of killing a couple of hundred people after some of them tried to blow him up in his car. Maybe a fellow blogger can set the record straight: was he convicted of killing a million people, which would put him in the category of say, a Pol Pot? Or is the news-babe correct? (I couldn't keep up with the O.J. trial, let alone this one).
re: How Many Did He Kill?
Posted by Lew Rockwell at 03:37 PM
Tom, Saddam was killed for killing about 140 people after an assassination attempt. His greater crimes, such as killing vast numbers in his war on Iran, were banned from prosecution by the US, since he was a US ally, and doing the US's bidding at the time. No embarrassing testimony was to be allowed about, say, Don Rumsfeld supplying WMD to use against Iran. It's also why Saddam's mike was turned off so often, and why he was not allowed to make a final statement.
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Is that it, 140 people? Whoops, wait a minute, no testimony about the 1,000,000 killed by US government WMD's wielded by Iraq and used on Iranians, what's that all about?
Say it ain't so, Joe,