An Inconvenient Truth
Andrew Cockburn : Iraq
In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
Andrew Cockburn : Iraq
In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
Bruce Shapiro : International Criminal Court/War Crimes Tribunals
A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam's victims, living or dead.
Robert Scheer : Iraq War
Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that mocks all of Bush's posturing on Iraq.
More violence, waning chances for reconciliation and a trove of secrets taken to the grave.
Justice and reconciliation for the victims of Saddam Hussein will not be found at the end of a hangman's rope.
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant.
Even the most naive American voter cannot be expected to see the morally, legally and politically questionable death sentence given to Saddam Hussein a milestone in the Bush Administration's illegal war in Iraq. As the milestones pile up, so do the bodies.
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's ruthless regime. And the increasingly isolated George W. Bush insists on staying the course.
Saddam Hussein went to trial on Wednesday declaring he was still the president of Iraq. A decade-old series of odes to Hussein's dictatorial days show the tyrant was always out of touch with reality.
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Hussein's trial is shaping up as just US theatrics.
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
New documents detail how Rumsfeld and Reagan let Iraq know it was just fine to keep using chemical weapons against Iran and the Kurds.
The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush Administration might come to regret.
