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"Mr. Rumsfeld, when did Saddam Hussein become evil?"

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That was you, was it not, Mr. Rumsfeld, who as a member of the Reagan administration team smiled proudly and shook Saddam Hussein's hand after an arms for oil deal was brokered? Did the U.S. not supply scientific technical assistance whereby Saddam Hussein's regime developed the means of employing poisonous weapons?

Mr. Rumsfeld, were not those arms along with poison gas technology obtained from U.S. sources unleashed against the Kurds in Iraq's northern provinces by Saddam Hussein in towering waves of genocide?

Do you deny that such genocide occurred, Mr. Rumsfeld? If it did occur then why was Kurdish genocide committed in Iraq's northern provinces by Saddam Hussein not included as part of the criminal complaint against Saddam Hussein for murder?

Another question should also be asked:

"Mr. Rumsfeld, which intelligence agency helped Saddam Hussein achieve power, despite significant evidence that he, along with the Baath Party he led, were responsible for killings and other atrocities? Mr. Rumsfeld, was that assisting agency not America's CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency?"

Needless to say, it was much easier to try Saddam Hussein on some deaths for which there was not the kind of evidentiary tracing of evidence as was the case regarding others.

The lid would have been blown off the prosecution if defense counsel for Saddam Hussein could display a link between American conduct and his rise and sustaining of power up until the time that the U.S. decided it was time for him to go.

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