should of been hanged for those murders but why wasn't he convicted of what I think would be a much more serious crime which was the posion gas attack on the Iraqi Kurds that killed a few thousand innocent men, women and children? Were they afraid that if they had gone to trail on the posion gas charges that the truth about how Saddam orginally got those posion gases would come up in a trial?
2006-12-31 05:53:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Officially, nobody was ever blamed for the gas attack on the Kurds in Halabja. Iraq was at war with Iran at the time so the investigators never concluded which country had gassed them. The only "official" blame was made by GWB who used that "evidence" in his argument that Iraq had WMDs.
I think you are partially right that the investigators were worried about the list of countries that supplied Iraq with the chemicals, which unfortunately included the US. I think it also had to do with the US wanting to continue supporting Iraq in their fight against Iran, which was considered the worse of two evils.
One could make the argument that the civilian deaths were considered collateral damage because Halabja was held by Iranians at the time and were also supporting Kurdish rebels who wanted to secede from Iraq.
2006-12-31 06:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Kookiemon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The trial is on going and will likely continue. You need to understand this was an IRAQI trial not a US trial. It was Iraqi law that stated an execution must take place 30 days after all appeals are exhausted. There was no cover up of US supplying Saddam with chemical weapons. It is common knowledge, it done to prevent Iran from winning the Iraq Iran war and dominating the region. If you know anything about history Iran had just committed acts of aggression against the US by taking hostages, supported terrorist that murdered US personal and were openly stating they intended to conquer the region. The US never intended for Saddam to use the chemical weapons against the Kurds and condemned him for it. We also scarified thousands of our troops to remove him from power so it never happens again. I would say that more then makes amends.
2006-12-31 06:50:58 · answer #2 · answered by Daz2020 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that trial is going on as we speak, Saddam will only be there in Spirit though. His defense lawyers will get a chance to speak. Why would you think it matters as to where he got it. gee....are you gonna make the big bad US look bad? sheeesh. Saddam's execution was timed by Iraqi law and the fact that this was a start of a festival which means less traffic and easier crowd control if there was going to be a problem. Haven't seen any by the way, have you?
2006-12-31 06:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quite true my friend the killing of 140 or 150 people was not even in top 20 list of his crime for which he was killed or murdered as i should decribe these are proper researchers point of view
2006-12-31 06:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by charlie c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really is common knowledge that we provided the WMD for him to use in the Iraq-Iran war isn't it? I was not aware that it was still a closely guarded secret. Using that logic, if someone has a wreck in a Ford SUV, should Ford be charged for that person's bad driving skills? Sometimes people change their alliances.
I think you might be making more of this than there really is.
2006-12-31 06:05:16 · answer #5 · answered by Rich B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He actually killed 182,000 Kurds, but was convicted on those 147 counts.
As for the gas, not sure where he got it, so I couldn't speak to any cover-up.
2006-12-31 05:57:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They performed him straight away because of the Islam holiday that change into arising. i'm not particular which one yet they had to execute him earlier the holiday, which i have self assurance is sometime this week. I wish I had extra targeted information on that for you sorry.
2016-12-01 09:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by fuents 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He hadn't been tried for those crimes yet. He had the short drop with a sudden stop before they could try him on the Kurd gassing. Either way, his a s s is grass.
2006-12-31 05:57:04 · answer #8 · answered by kelly24592 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everyone knows about how the U.S. supplied weapons to Saddam, and it's too late to do anything about it. All that matters is that he is gone now, and the best we can do is to make sure that we never give weapons to such an unstable/dangerous government.
2006-12-31 05:57:09 · answer #9 · answered by pctorab 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was a lot of documentation related to the charge he was convicted of. Prosecutors no doubt felt it was the easiest case to win.
2006-12-31 05:56:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋