I was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Stryker Brygade from OCT '03-OCT '04. We were some of the first in charge of helping the new government in Iraq set up the police force and Army, as well as training them; we also bairly missed getting Saddam ourselves. A friend of mine was actually in the squad that did actually catch him. The Iraqies there however, were upset with us, as in America, for having ever taking Saddam out of Iraq in the first place; they wanted to kill him there and then, right after they found out that we cought up with him. So unless you're geting information from someone in his home town to fit your views; I seriously doubt your expressing the views of anyone, but yourself and a very small pecentage of Iraq that is in and around Tikrit. Of corse you can always find the small percentage of Shiite's in Iraq that agree whole heartedly with you, I'm sure. People over here in the states however keep forgetting that it is the Sunies who are the majority in Iraq; they were oppressed and driven down during the entire rein of Saddam. Then you have the Kurddish; who he tried single handed to exterminate! If you had live in the 1940's would you had said the U.S. and the Allie's had commited crimes against humanity then as well? Or is it that in your mind a man like Saddam isn't to be held accountable for crime against humanity like the Nazis were, or is it that you felt that they shouldn't have; I just missed that article?

by TBI 10/04 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, Dec 31, 2006 at 9:04:39 PM