Butcher of Baghdad

Why all the outrage about the execution of one of the most ruthless mass murdering dictators of our time, who summarily executed at least 15 Shia conspirators, a further 148 were also executed, and hundreds arrested following the alleged plot to have him assassinated in 1982. In the village of Halabjah on 16 March 1988 Kurds were indiscriminately killed when villages were attacked with poisonous mustard gas and nerve agents were used to kill up to 5,000 and injure up to 10,000 more. In 1991 in the south Saddam launched a campaign against the Shias, including Shia Marsh Arabs as many as 150,000 were killed. The Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala were attacked and over 100 Shia clerics disappeared during the 1990s. Beginning in March chemical weapons filled with sarin gas and CS (tear) gas were dropped from helicopters onto targets in and around Najaf and Karbala. http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hussein.html Then there was the horror of Saddam Hussein's secret police for decades tortured inmates with beatings, and mutilations, including the gouging out of eyes, those who were raped, maimed, had electric cables shoved on to their genitals, or exterminated. In mid-2000, the council was said to have approved amputation of the tongue as a new penalty for slander or abusive remarks about Saddam or his family. "They did unthinkable things - electrocution, immersion in a bath of chemicals and ripping off people's finger and toenails." People were allegedly shredded in machines alive by his sons. In one case, according to Amnesty International, dozens of women accused of prostitution were beheaded without a trial by members of the Saddam Fidayeen, the militia run by Saddam's feared elder son Uday. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1931322006 It’s incredulous the hypocrisy of the western socialist media and their complete and utter failure to keep in perspective the hundreds of thousand of those enemies of Saddam who were murdered, tortured or simply disappeared. It is a disgusting testament to these bleeding hearts, to have had the delicacy of their elitist sensibilities offended. Saddam's victims deaths were met out to them in the most crule, merciless, remorseless, fashion as a result of their resistance to Saddam’s will. In same foul breath the main stream media zealots condemnations of “deplorable” and “Shia vengeance act” the din of which, in the usual political correctness rising to the rafters about the indignant way in which he was treated before he was executed by his own countrymen, on the six foot drop to a noose the end of a rope. A death far too swift and merciful for one who show none to his numerous victims!