Why didn't the government torture Sadam to find out where the WMD's were?

Question

How come we did not torture Sadam over WMDs but we torture low-level terrorist who for the most part are not REAL terrorist. If we need to use torture to save US lives. Why did Sadam get treated so fairly and humanly. But Little Akbar who wears a Bin Laden shirt gets water boarded and his family gets kidnapped. These are the real questions we need to be asking our Admin. Is this more proof that Bush was lying. But forget about Bush and his lies. I want to know why in the hell did Sadam not get tortured or questioned about WMDs, relationships with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. We just gave him to the Iraqi's after we made sure he was healthy enough to kill like some common criminal. Well he ain't no common criminal, he was dictator over a nation that had terrorist connections. So again, why did Sadam get treated so fairly and nice, but every other Muslim who gets caught for wearing a t-shirt or having a poster get treated worse than a man like Sadam.

Answer 1

Because by then, the government already knew there WERE no WMD's...not to mention that torturing the leader of ANY country is frowned upon by oh...I dunno...THE REST OF THE ENTIRE PLANET! Keep in mind, Sadam was sentanced and executed by his own country and their justice system. When a country starts torturing leaders of other countries, things can get very ugly. Assasination is one thing...but when you start doing that to leaders, the rest of the world starts to wonder if you're not just taking steps toward world domination. It makes you VERY unpopular.

Answer 2

How do we know he wasn't tortured? Actually I don't think they did because it wasn't necessary. They already knew by that time that there were no WMDs in Iraq. They were destroyed in the first gulf war. Any semblence of anything remaining was useless anyway. Saddam's regime was only a few years from collapse anyway and they knew that too. The whole thing over there was because a certain cowboy with an itchy trigger finger wanted to be a war president, revenge his dad because he believed Saddam had threatened daddy's life, and of course for the oil interests and those of big corporations in the military industrial complex. That cowboy stated he wanted to go to war with Saddam even before 2000. People didn't pay attention and we have thousands of people killed and billions of dollars wasted. Also since Bush and Bin Laden families were pals and business partners for decades the cowboy didn't want to ruin the friendship. Bin Laden and Hussein hated each other. Saddam did all he could to ensure Al Qaeda and such were kept out of Iraq. By toppling Saddam the door was opened for unbridled increases in Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to run amok in Iraq and other places. Prior to 2003 the number of terrorists was very small but with the attack and subsequent toppling of Saddam's government that number increased exponentially.

Answer 3

Climb down off the soap box before you fall and hurt yourself. Every Muslim gets arrested and tortured for wearing tee shirts? Well good to see that you went to the same school as Bush... If you have no facts and just want to blow smoke make random b.s. statements that you do not have to back them up. The difference is Sadam was a man who mostly was satisfied to torture and kill his own people. Bush for better or worse saw this as a threat to the US(I for one do not agree) so he came up with a reason to overthrow him. Once that was done he needs to let Iraq, the people he committed his crimes against try him.
Terrorist, Muslim or otherwise, are the ones arrested. While I for one do not know how many have been accused falsely and tortured for it, I will hope that all have been guilty of the crimes they where charged with.

Answer 4

Do you believe that they didn't?
i mean they hardly accepted the fact that prisoners where being tortured to the press and then when they couldn't do anything but accept the truth they tried to manipulate the definitions of torture. i can see Ol' Adolf Bush now at the podium addressing the media, "Ladies and gentlemen, after our thorough torture of the prisoner Saddam Hussein, I can assure you that the WMDs that we said were present are still not accounted for because they never existed in the first place. We have however found out through our interrogations that the Iraqis have been stockpiling frozen pizzas and have decided to continue the war on that premise!"

Answer 5

The united states has signed practically every world agreement against torture, and the press was there to watch how Saddam was treated. little Akbar doesn't get watched by the press, so the CIA can do whatever they want. Saddam was a big deal to many countries, so everyone was watching, and the US is trying to save every shred of decency they have. btw Saddam got killed, but Akbar doesn't

Answer 6

Thats a good question Billy! Its time you learned THE TRUTH:



The WMD's are in Syria. Saddam's top general announced this on TV. But fighting Saddam was easy. Fighting the Syrians would not be so easy. Now, GWB probably doesn't watch Jon Stewart's Daily Show because they are not the best of pals so his guys might have missed this. Still, WMD's weren't the real goal. Ousting a dictator and TRYING to bring stability to the region as well as cutting off one the major arms dealers in the Middle East was the true aim. Bonus: More US bases in Turkey and nearby countries had a good excuse to keep running.

Basically, we are still #1 go USA w007 no Saddam!

And Syria gets to live... and gets free stuff... everybody wins but Saddam.

Now back to your regularly scheduled life.

Answer 7

Simply stated "because life isn't fair"!

Practically speaking if they tortured S. Hussein it is likely to be discovered since He is more "visible" than a low-level terrorist. If he had been tortured and it became known there might have been a publicity backlash that would have "harmed" our image and might have lost us support from other nations.

Answer 8

Salaam Alaykum,
They knew that he did not have any. Only low level people
the public never hears about gets tortured. Until it is made public. A former president has a war crimes tribunal...like maybe Bush someday!
Wasalaam

Answer 9

1. Saddam was a prisoner of the government of Iraq.

2. We knew that he had already had plenty of time to transport the weapons to Iran, except of course the WMDs (chlorine bombs) that the Iraqi terrorists have used within the last year.

Answer 10

exactly if they want to find WMD they would go to north korea. thats were most of world WMD are at, sadam might have had one or two but doesnt matter, let the nukes come im ready for a nuclear freeze!