Thoughts on Saddam Hussein

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I'm not letting Clinton off the hook either. You can oppose imperialism and oppression wherever it is.

The Kurds sided with the Ayatollah in the Iran-Iraq war.

Why didn't you just quote George W. Bush directly? Also nothing in there qualifies as "genocide" anyway, even if it were just innocent civilians, which it wasn't. It would be pretty bad, but not "genocide" by any definition.

vast majority were innocent civilians you disgusting apologist

In what way was he a puppet?

Taha Muhi-Aldin Ma'roof Albarzanji, Vice-President and member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from April 1974 until April 2003, he was Kurdish, the one the back to the right is Omit Mithat Mubarek, the Last Minister of Health of Ba'athist Iraq, was also kurdish, when someone tells you Kurds were oppressed in Iraq just laugh.

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this is your brain on Islamic fascism

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I should rephrase that to middle-eastern fascism.

usa funded him in the Iran Iraq war

So did the ussr and pretty much every country on earth

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It doesn't change the fact that he was elected above numerous individuals apart of the "oppressors". TWICE. That shouldn't be even remotely possible if there was the slightest bit of oppression.

Although one can make a good argument for the oppression of Hispanics

But

Protip: THERE IS NONE (for blacks)

For example, one of the central premises for "systematic oppression" is that cops are specifically targeting blacks for death is simply not true.

No racial bias in police shootings, study by Harvard professor shows
>washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/11/no-racial-bias-police-shootings-study-harvard-prof/

‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie
>washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/?utm_term=.8e078105f4b9

“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police … Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”
>washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/

The real racial bias: Cops more willing to shoot whites than blacks, research finds
>washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/5/police-officers-more-hesitant-to-shoot-black-suspe/

Same with stats for jobs and everything else.

If anything, it's the white working class that's the most oppressed, by far. And can anyone deny it anymore at this point? The proof of oppression is that you can openly disparage the white proletariat and the bourgeois who own all the corporate media support such platitudes. Of course, in the end, everything is just a spook so fuck off.

By this logic, the USSR was a puppet of American imperialism because they received weapons during ww2

That doesn't change the fact tha Saddam was a cunt dictator and was a USA puppet until they need him there. What a pathetic life he had, if we look at it.

This doesn't mean that i can't recongnize that Iraq are far worst without Saddam.

tankies in a nutshell

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I have a feeling this gif is going to get a lot of mileage today

Well they kept electing him so he couldn't be that bad.

Bastard

Just because the US was against him doesn't make him any less of a bastard, or what came after bastards. In fact we funded the bastard.

It's bastards all the way down.

fightbacknews.org/2006/04/saddamtrial.htm
If he really committed genocide against the Kurds then they should've had him dead to rights. But the alleged anfal genocide isn't even what they convicted him during the second "genocide" trial. Makes you think.

Did nothing wrong hpn.asu.edu/archives/2001-January/002553.html

horrible person, but Iraq was better with him than they are now.

Don't ask why he did it, just say he did.

Stop watching CNN and actually do your homework on the issue

Fuck off apologists

Why do people always go for this? If someone is moderately critical of the narrative being pushed about another country by another country is automatically
Even when the regime in question isn't even around anymore, so it hardly matters, and the """apologism""" from some guy on the internet who holds no political power and lives thousands of miles away. Consider also that he often sits on an already marginalized end of the political spectrum (i.e. the Left) where he is already marginalized just for voicing an opinion that isn't in line with Samantha Power, Madeline Albright, the Bushes and the Clintons.

*the response is automatically

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It's nothing to do with narratives. Anyone with a brain can tell saddam was a despot. Go ask the people he gassed.

Isn't that exactly what's at issue here, that he intentionally gassed civilians? It's not like I have a phone line during to Iran-Iraq war survivors I can call up. Using chemical weapons is horrible enough but Iraq certainly wasn't the only party to use them in combat, Iran also used them during the war. Really after WMDs, the Kuwaiti incubator baby hoax, the various hoaxes attributed to Assad, and the viagra-powered merc hoax used to sell war in Libya anyone with a brain has the right to be skeptical.

Of course it does. Look I'm not saying anyone should disbelieve the truth if anyone also happens to believe it, but isn't it true that its harder to oppose a war if you accept the reasons for it? If your not skeptical about the circumstances and reasons used to sell war then its going to be a lot harder to make in-roads with the public who are subjected constantly to the imperialist propaganda machine.

*if the imperialists also happen to believe it

They're so programmed by the steady diet of media propaganda they've been fed for their entire lives that even when they've broken free from the first wave of programming, they still regurgitate what a smaller undercurrent was feeding them all along.

Every "war criminal" that hangs is nothing more than a particularly noxious example of American hypocrisy; like that cunt Hillary laughing about Gaddafi.

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But unlike Saddam, the Americans didn't put Stalin in charge of the Kremlin or did they?