03-25-2003, 04:45 AM
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Originally posted by galleryseek
Iraq, 35 years ago was a prosperous country, its
political position was stable, economy was fit and people were reasonably
wealthy. In came the Baath party of Saddam. What Iraq saw since then was
war after war, continuous murder and executions of the Iraqi opposition by
the regime, poverty, sanctions on the Iraqi people (not Saddam) and
political instability. Saddam has killed and executed around 1.5 million
Iraqis during his time:
- At least 1 million Iraqis killed or injured during his war against Iran.
- At least 100,000 of Iraqi opposition killed or executed during the last 34
years (since 1968).
- 150,000 Iraqi soldiers killed or injured during his invasion of Kuwait.
- At least 250,000 Iraqis killed after the popular uprising during March
1991 until today.
- 180,000 Iraqi Kurds killed during Anfal operations against Kurds
1987-1988.
- 5,000 killed by poisonous gas in Halabja on 17 -3-1988.
- 50,000 killed during the destruction of the Marshes in the south.
- Many died during the deportation of Iraqis to Iran during 1970- 2002.
- At least 300 Turkomans killed or executed by the regime.
- At least 100 of Iraqi opposition assassinated outside Iraq by Saddam's
agents.
- Hundreds of the ruling Baath party top members were executed by Saddam.
Furthermore, 1.7 million (and continuing to rise) Iraqi children, women and
men died during the economic sanctions imposed by UN because of Saddam's
attempt to invade Kuwait. Saddam is also using 10 different security forces
apparatus to kill or execute. He uses at least 200 methods to torture people
in 300 prison and detention centres in Iraq.
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"You have said that estimates are that Saddam has killed approximately one million of his own citizens since 1979."
"Yes, that would include Kurds, Shi'ites, Christians and Sunnis. There were two huge massacres. There was the so-called Anfal campaign against the Kurds at the end of the 1980s when 4,000 villages were destroyed, and about 100,000 to 150,000 persons were killed, some with poison gas. Up to a million people were sent into internal exile. The other big massacre was in the south in the 1990s, where the regime has killed about 300,000 Shi'ites in the last 10 years. In addition, there have been enormous massacres against communists over the past two decades.
"The estimate of one million killed only includes civilians. A million Iraqi soldiers were killed in the Iran-Iraq war. A half-million Iraqis died of hunger or disease because of sanctions on Iraq, and more were killed in the Gulf War. Some 1.5 to two million people have been internally displaced, and 4.5 million Iraqi refugees are scattered across the globe. Ten percent of the Iraqi population has been killed or deported during the rule of Saddam Hussein. That is the essence of his regime. It is not an accident. It is systematic."
http://www.photodude.com/weblog/dump...r/002267.shtml
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Saddam may be a bad guy. Honestly, I do not know. I do not think that you do either. I do know that I am not willing to give up mine or my child's life because CNN says Saddam is evil. Since when is it my responsibility to police the world? What are YOU willing to pay to see evil Saddam destroyed? $5,000? Your left hand? Your life? Nothing but lip service on a public bulletin board?
Much of the killing of his own people can be attributed to revolts and civil wars by the Kurds and Shi'ites. To use statistics like that then it could be just as easily said that Abraham Lincoln killed over 600,000 of his own people. |
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