Former Iraqi Interior Minister Mohammad Zaman Abdel Razeq Saadoun is claiming that the Army "turned up the heat" in order to get people to testify against Saddam Hussein. He says that two of his grandsons were kidnapped to coerce him into cooperating.
Yeah, that's probably likely. That's how war is played, and our military is no exception to the rule. I'm not saying that it's fine with me that we abduct little kids on a routine basis to force their parents to comply because it isn't. However, it's difficult to lay the blame solely on one person or country because everyone does it. We just either don't hear about it or we choose to ignore it because "it's all in the name of freedom/good/democracy/fill-in-the-blank cause."
This is oddly amusing:
Saddam and seven of his associates are accused of killing 148 people in the village of Dujail as revenge for an assassination attempt on Saddam by Dujail residents in the summer of 1982.
Saadoun said that compensation was provided to all of Dujail's residents who had also had their agricultural lands dug up and destroyed in the revenge attack.
Cute...so the attacks were OK because people were "compensated later on"? That's like saying it's OK for me to invade an "ass-backward" nation, kick out their former president/dictator/whatever, bomb it back to the Stone Age, and set up my own puppet government which is no different than the old government because I'm giving the people glorious freedom that they want so badly--oh, wait...oops.
War...what's it good for? Absolutely nothing.
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