This is in response to the article 'Saddam's hanging was illegal and vengeful.'Saddam was not a despot as Mr. Praful Bidwai would like all to believe.His reign developed Iraq into one of the most powerful nations in the middle east.Education was free,and so were most of the medical services.Income tax was nil,and business was booming.More over Iraq was the first middleast nation to adopt democracy.Saddam was an elected and a popular leader of the Iraqi people.
He did kill the Kurds and the Shiites,but only because they were creating trouble by demanding separate nationhood for their territories.Now any leader would do so to protect the integrity of his nation.It is his duty.And moreover,he did not kill the Kurds and Shiites indiscriminately.He killed only those Kurds and Shiites who were creating mischief.The Indian leaders too did it when the Sikhs led Bhindranwale wanted Punjab to be separated from the Union,and so it is the same now with Kashmir and the north-east.Saddam's forces didn't kill innocent civilians.But the Indian forces do so at the drop of a hat and they most gleefully rape the women from these regions.So when Saddam's forces were trianed and advised not to commit these heinous crimes,how can any one's conscience be so porous as to permit them to say that Saddam was a despot?If you want to know the meaning of despot just look at some of the African leaders;read the history of Khmer Rouge.hen you will realise that Saddam was not a despot.If you still say he was a despot,then every person who ruled or rules a nation is a despot.
Saddam's hanging didn't make him a hero.It only underlined the fact that he was a hero.It also brought out the fact that Saddam was feared by the US even when he was in prison.Well,so much for the only super power on earth!
To view the American crime broadly,Saddam or no Saddam,Bin Laden or no Bin Laden,9/11 or no 9/11,U.S would any way have attacked these countries,Iraq and Afghanistan,and it will attack its poodle Pakistan, and India too for various ridiculous reasons.Remember that not India was warned by Bush Sr and Bush Jr not too long ago.So then when this attack will happen, rest assured, we will have many Saddam Husseins and Bin Ladens fighting for our land.Then I would dare you to call them despots!
The aim of US is to rule over the world.So no one can be its friend.So it would be better for all the nations to unite and deploy forces against USA and England,and defeat the new imperialist ambitions of these 'rogue shadow of the devil'nations to protect the integrity of all the other nations of the world.This would be much better than calling the leaders of victimised nations falsely as despots,criminals and maniacs.
RE:Saddam Hussein is a great Hero.
by Sanjay Hazra on Jan 16, 2007 02:40 PM Permalink
Same old blinded, generalized, biased opinion of yours regarding Indian forces in JK.
"...But the Indian forces do so at the drop of a hat and they most gleefully rape the women from these regions.."
Will you please get the facts about the Indian forces in JK and talk?
RE:Saddam Hussein is a great Hero.
by Hansum Hunk on Jan 16, 2007 12:13 PM Permalink
I liked this more than the original article.Mr.Suhail has given an insight of an insecure Iraqi leader trying to keep his flock together.As he has said any would of any country would ve done the same.Keep it up Mr.Suhail i look forward to some thinking messages like the one u posted.
