Saddam Hussein

2007

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.
The Saddam Spectacle

Bruce Shapiro : International Criminal Court/War Crimes Tribunals

A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam's victims, living or dead.
An Act of Barbarism

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.
The Consequences of Killing Saddam

Robert Dreyfuss

More violence, waning chances for reconciliation and a trove of secrets taken to the grave.
Rule of Noose

Bruce Shapiro

Justice and reconciliation for the victims of Saddam Hussein will not be found at the end of a hangman's rope.

Bush's Rough Justice

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.
Questionable Verdict

Richard Falk : Iraq

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.

Bush's Iraq Outdoes Saddam

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.
Deadline for Saddam

Calvin Trillin : Poetry

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.

We Got Him...Now What?

Robert Scheer : Iraq

The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush Administration might come to regret.