A rather amazing summary of the former dictator in Iraq...and a compelling adjudication of the current situation in many minds.
I just didn't know where to stop posting this article, but there is more at the link at the bottom.
Written by one of our own who has been there.
New Iraqi Museum to Stand as Reminder of Saddam’s Decades of Brutality, Counter to Anti-War Movement’s Attempt to Rehabilitate the Late Tyrant
Posted by Jeff Emanuel, Wednesday, January 7th
Torture chambers. Rape rooms. Chemical and biological warfare conducted by a government against its own people. Limbs cut off. Political opponents slaughtered. Wetlands converted to uninhabitable desert to punish inhabitants for their sectarian affiliation. International-level athletes burned and scarred for underperformance in competition. Villagers and tribesmen indiscriminately murdered or mutilated simply so their dictator could demonstrate the awful extent of his power...
However, the regrettable human habit of forgetting the lessons of history (and thus allowing mistakes and atrocities alike to be repeated), combined with a years-old effort to rehabilitate the late dictator’s image, means that attention must continue to be paid not only to the late tyrant himself, but to ensuring that his true legacy remains clearly and publicly commemorated....
Now, nearly six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and two years after his conviction and execution for slaughtering millions of his own citizens, the Islamic nation’s High Tribunal is trying to ensure Saddam’s memory is kept alive in a new way: with a museum featuring artifacts of, and documents recounting, the myriad atrocities the former Iraqi dictator committed during his 24 years in power...
The museum will exhibit the evidence of Saddam’s atrocities, both physical and documentary. Hanging apparati – hooks and bloody nooses – used to asphyxiate countless Iraqi men, women, and children will be displayed, as well as torture devices like “a man-shaped metal cage where,” according to reports, “Saddam’s son Uday used to lock underperforming athletes for weeks at a time – and set them naked under the burning sun, the metal searing their flesh.”
Also on display will pictures of hangings and of victims’ bodies, as well as the personal effects of some of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis murdered and dumped in one of dozens of mass graves by Saddam’s regime. These artifacts, according to a report, “include combs, identity cards, a rosary…and bloodstained clothes.”
According to a museum worker who spoke with reporters on the condition of anonymity, the museum’s display will include documents from Saddam’s 2006 trial, including “the final decision and the execution order,” so that “people will be able to see his guilt for themselves.”...
“We thought that people might forget the works committed by dictators who committed horrible acts against them,” said Judge Arif Abdel-Razaq al-Shaheen, chief justice of the High Tribunal, which sentenced Saddam to death two years ago...
“Anti-war” protesters have shown their support for the late (illegitimately-elected) president of Iraq, and their hatred of the outgoing (legitimately-elected) President of the United States, in several distasteful ways, from calling for Bush’s impeachment and, in extreme cases, execution for “war crimes,” to spraying Chicago churchgoers with faux blood while accusing them of supporting the murder of civilians, showering the floor of the House of Representatives with blood-soaked dollar bills, and calling for enlisted soldiers to shoot officers who ordered them to carry out their missions in Iraq...
All of this has supposedly been done in the name of “peace” and of a humanitarian concern for the Iraqi people, “millions” of whom have supposedly been killed by barbaric Americans who shattered the utopia that was pre-2003 Iraq when they charged in, guns blazing, and began indiscriminately killing everything that had brown skin and moved.
The man who slaughtered millions of his own countrymen – and brutally tortured millions more – deserves far less than the legacy of a martyr...
redstate
H/T to rightwingsparkle
I just didn't know where to stop posting this article, but there is more at the link at the bottom.
Written by one of our own who has been there.
New Iraqi Museum to Stand as Reminder of Saddam’s Decades of Brutality, Counter to Anti-War Movement’s Attempt to Rehabilitate the Late Tyrant
Posted by Jeff Emanuel, Wednesday, January 7th
Torture chambers. Rape rooms. Chemical and biological warfare conducted by a government against its own people. Limbs cut off. Political opponents slaughtered. Wetlands converted to uninhabitable desert to punish inhabitants for their sectarian affiliation. International-level athletes burned and scarred for underperformance in competition. Villagers and tribesmen indiscriminately murdered or mutilated simply so their dictator could demonstrate the awful extent of his power...
However, the regrettable human habit of forgetting the lessons of history (and thus allowing mistakes and atrocities alike to be repeated), combined with a years-old effort to rehabilitate the late dictator’s image, means that attention must continue to be paid not only to the late tyrant himself, but to ensuring that his true legacy remains clearly and publicly commemorated....
Now, nearly six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and two years after his conviction and execution for slaughtering millions of his own citizens, the Islamic nation’s High Tribunal is trying to ensure Saddam’s memory is kept alive in a new way: with a museum featuring artifacts of, and documents recounting, the myriad atrocities the former Iraqi dictator committed during his 24 years in power...
The museum will exhibit the evidence of Saddam’s atrocities, both physical and documentary. Hanging apparati – hooks and bloody nooses – used to asphyxiate countless Iraqi men, women, and children will be displayed, as well as torture devices like “a man-shaped metal cage where,” according to reports, “Saddam’s son Uday used to lock underperforming athletes for weeks at a time – and set them naked under the burning sun, the metal searing their flesh.”
Also on display will pictures of hangings and of victims’ bodies, as well as the personal effects of some of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis murdered and dumped in one of dozens of mass graves by Saddam’s regime. These artifacts, according to a report, “include combs, identity cards, a rosary…and bloodstained clothes.”
According to a museum worker who spoke with reporters on the condition of anonymity, the museum’s display will include documents from Saddam’s 2006 trial, including “the final decision and the execution order,” so that “people will be able to see his guilt for themselves.”...
“We thought that people might forget the works committed by dictators who committed horrible acts against them,” said Judge Arif Abdel-Razaq al-Shaheen, chief justice of the High Tribunal, which sentenced Saddam to death two years ago...
“Anti-war” protesters have shown their support for the late (illegitimately-elected) president of Iraq, and their hatred of the outgoing (legitimately-elected) President of the United States, in several distasteful ways, from calling for Bush’s impeachment and, in extreme cases, execution for “war crimes,” to spraying Chicago churchgoers with faux blood while accusing them of supporting the murder of civilians, showering the floor of the House of Representatives with blood-soaked dollar bills, and calling for enlisted soldiers to shoot officers who ordered them to carry out their missions in Iraq...
All of this has supposedly been done in the name of “peace” and of a humanitarian concern for the Iraqi people, “millions” of whom have supposedly been killed by barbaric Americans who shattered the utopia that was pre-2003 Iraq when they charged in, guns blazing, and began indiscriminately killing everything that had brown skin and moved.
The man who slaughtered millions of his own countrymen – and brutally tortured millions more – deserves far less than the legacy of a martyr...
redstate
H/T to rightwingsparkle
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