Reply #12: I agree with diane in sf [View All]

Cover-up. This is the reason for Saddam being charged with the deaths of 148 people, rather than gassing the Kurds. Full and complete evidence against him for gassing the Kurds would have shown clear and unrefutable complicity on the part of the U.S. government.

I loathe Saddam and his tactics, but I'm still reeling at the travesty of his so-called trial and the swiftness of carrying out the judgment. Were they frightened some mitigating evidence would come to light in favor of Saddam, or that some damning evidence would come to light against the U.S.?

There are a multitude of crimes against the Iraqi people by Saddam and his accomplices, and I'm speaking in addition to the U.S. in the handling of its puppet. Saddam's "execution" was a hush-hush orchestrated state-sponsored assassination.