US Media Makes Me Ill

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Nitram

I admit that you are well informed on the subject Strangler, much more than me, but you still come off as a guy that only looks at one side of the story.

I often only post one side of the story because the other side has numerous defenders here. There is no need.

The 1.5 million people that he murdered. You`re talking about the Chiites right? The same Chiites that are rebelling on you right now?

Not just the Shiites were killed, anyone presenting a perceived threat was killed. Example: On the fifth day of Saddam's rule he aired a nationally broadcasted meeting of all the countries leaders. While smoking a cigar Saddam's right hand man read off a random list of names of "traitors" who were ushered out of the building, never to be seen again. They were killed so that Saddam could send a message: Anyone can be killed at any time.

One of his generals disagreed with him once (the name escapes me) and was imprisoned. The general's wife begged for his release and Saddam agreed. Saddam sent the general back to his wife... chopped into several pieces in a sack.

5,000 Kurds were slaughtered so that Saddam could test chemical weapons.

Rape camps were set up and the military could just pick out women they found attractive, accuse them with some bogus charge, and then send them to the camps to be toys for the boys.

Etc. etc. etc.

You see, that country is a mess anyways, it's devided by 3 major ethnicities that hate each other. How can you make it work? A brutal dictator might be the only solution.

That comment is ignorant, simplistic and borderline racist and I really don't think I need to explain why.

And didn't the US encouraged the Chiite rebelion a few years ago? A factor that could have something to do in their massacre?

While I don't agree with what the US did to encourage the rebellion, are you really implyin that its the US's fault there have been 400,000 bodies found in mass graves in Iraq so far? If thats the case, is there ANYTHING that isn't the US's fault in the world? If we don't do anything, we are criticized (see North Korea), and if we actually try and do something, we get it even worse. Such is the life of the world's most powerful nation. Nationalistic penis envy can be a terrible thing.