Is this how Saddam kept the masses under control?

Question

http://gendercide.org/images/pics/halabji.jpg

Answer 1

Yes, that is exactly how he kept them under control.

Answer 2

This picture of unfortunate children is a construction and a fabrication propagandizing to support claims that masses of children are being slain by US and British soldiers or Israelis while they were in Lebanon. The fact is that there are always, again unfortunately collateral casualties that are caused by any army when it is operating. The forces mentioned always try to not harm innocents, unlike the people who 'made' this picture who use children a shields and homicide bombers and who slay as many civilians of any age as they can. FYI, Saddam was much worse than this, also; he and his sons and cadres tortured and murdered tens of thousands of the truly innocent and defenseless.

Answer 3

pretty much... it's very difficult to control two warring religious factors... as we are finding out ourselves...

I've never heard anyone say Saddam was a good guy... or wasn't a bloody dictator...

that's also pretty much how China, N. Korea, half of Africa and well 75 percent of the middle east and a good part of South America keeps their masses under control...

for some reason we made China our prefered trading partner, and invaded Iraq?

Answer 4

Exactly.

And the lunatics that use the "There were no terror attacks under Saddam" argument need to see this. Its cause he killed everyone that did not agree with him. Men, women, children... Athletes that lost, etc... lovely

Answer 5

Possibly... we don't know the source of that photo. That sort of thing... and placing civilins within military targets so the casualties would be at maximum... or placing military targets into civilian areas. Typical terrorist dictator stuff.

Answer 6

Yes. That is EXACTLY how he maintained control. For some reason, liberals prefer that to the current situation.

Answer 7

Those were killed by Americans! Saddam usually killed adults! And he did a far better job than we do. I think you can pretty much say that is fact!

Since we invaded Iraq, and the Geneva Conventions require us to protect civilians, many of those killed were women and children!

Even before Bush invaded Iraq was a little thing called an embargo which was responsible for the deaths of over 1/2 million children under the age of 5. They starved to death!

"Remember Iraqis killed by U.S. led occupation,
by Dexter J. Kamilewicz

Richard Perle, known as the “architect of the Iraq war,” asserted in his own film that one of the reasons for the invasion of Iraq was Saddam Hussein’s murder of 400,000 Iraqis.

This week, many Americans were overcome with grief over the 32 shooting deaths at Virginia Tech.
The day after the Virginia Tech memorial, at least 160 civilians died in and around Baghdad, killings that have been occurring at the rate of 1,600 a week with no memorial service in sight.

According to the United Nations, more than 1,000,000 civilians (500,000 of whom were children) died during the U.S. embargo of Iraq.

The British Medical Journal Lancet’s study on Iraqi war deaths concluded that about 650,000 Iraqis died between March 2003 and October 2006.

Do we ignore the Iraqi deaths in favor of American deaths out of ignorance or cold-heartedness?
The latest Iraqi war death count of American soldiers is hovering at 3,300, over 100 times as many who died at Virginia Tech.

In the coming weeks, will Tom Allen, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins again vote to fund the military budget for Iraq and the deaths caused by the occupation of Iraq?

If they vote to fund Iraq, then we will have a real problem because, by Perl’s count, we will be supporting a war that has murdered more people than Saddam Hussein. "

Answer 8

I just wonder what the liberals think killed all those Kurds? They said there were never WMDs.

He did lots of very bad things.

Answer 9

Yes it was...

Dog Lover, those lunatics will say that it's none of our business and that it's their country. I've heard their spiel before.

Answer 10

Yep, that is how he did it. He made defying him so costly and painful that most would never consider it.