One of the most brutal totalitarian dictatorships in modern history defeated by the United States of AmericaSaddam Hussein is reponsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people, by some accounts as many as 2 million. Many were brutally tortured in his prisons. Some 200,000 Iraqi Kurds were gassed by Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Another 60,000 Kuwaitis were tortured, raped and killed during the year-long occupation by Saddam's forces. An estimated 500,000 southern Iraqis, mostly Shi'ite were gunned down, and hung in the streets after the first Persian Gulf War.
Now today, as the BBC reports, Post-Saddam, the Iraqis are holding peaceful elections nationwide.
Iraqis are electing new provincial councils in the first nationwide vote in four years, with the Sunni minority expected to turn out in strength. After a slow start, correspondents said voting was brisk, including among Sunni Muslims, who largely boycotted the last elections.5 years after the US Liberation of 35 million Iraqis
Ed Morrisey, HotAir.com Editor, in "Iraqis go to the polls," comments:"a festive mood has broken out in Iraq... This is what victory looks like."All thanks to former United States President George W. Bush.
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The world owes a lot to the courage of George Bush. He did a lot of stuff I think was horrible(McCain- Fiengold, prescription welfare),but he has made the world a better place despite the howls and screams of the worldwide Chickenshit lobby.
This is really going to anger the "Bush haters".
Bush shoe thrower statue is being removed
Right you are Chuck.
George Bush can sleep well at night, as he lays his head on his pillow in Crawford, knowing that he is responsible for the liberation of 60 million people from brutal totalitarian repression in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His foreign policy achievements are nothing short of Churchillian.
By any definition the Iraq war is won. There will certainly be future conflicts there, Iraqis are the same as us, after all. But we have handed a humiliating defeat to Al-Qaeda which has already significantly undercut their support in Afghanistan. By establishing a democracy in the middle of Arabia we've also greatly increased the opportunities for peaceful transition to freedom in all of Iraq's neighboring regimes, saving millions of lives in the future. All Americans should be proud, as should our allies that gave so much.
JT, you gotta say, it was perhaps the biggest Military victory in the entire History of the United States of America.
Only 4,000 US casualties is an amazingly low number.
We got rid of the Hitler of our time at the cost of 4,000 American lives.
Getting rid of Hitler in the 1940s costed 400,000 American lives.
What an astonishing contrast.
Hitler murdered 11 milion Europeans, out of a population of 200 million.
Hussein murdered 2 million Iraqis and Kuwaitis out of a population of some 40 million.
Per capita, they're pretty equal on the brutal murderous dictator scale.
Do you really think that Bush liberated Iraq? Either you are stupid or naive. Hussein was in jail and Reagan had him freed to fight another Iraq leader who had a tendency to go with Russia. Then came the war between Iran and Iraq and Donald Rumsfeld was always travelling to Iraq to sell arms to Iraq. Supposeledly he gassed the Kurds with AMERICAN weapons of mass destruction. U.S. made sure that he would be hanged before that trial as U.S. had its share of responsability and did not want the world to know. You do forget (or ignore) that it is the U.S. who planted horrible dictators (Pinochet, Amin Dada etc.) for it's own interest. Stop bragging about this , you are seen by many as a barbaric nation. You will invade any nation for your interest. U.S. became a superpower with the blood of others. I wouldnt be that proud if I were you.
The world doesn't owe Bush jack shit. The world didn't ask for him to come in and make Iraq into the mess that it is now. Bush was OUR President. Instead of trying to engage in regime changes all over the world, he could have been doing more to fix the problems we have here. He didn't and now look at the mess we are in. Meanwhile, the Iraqis have a multi-million dollar surplus and we're steadily increasing our national debt.
Actually, they did ask Bush to come in Bint.
Have you forgotten about Chalabi, and the Free Iraq movement in exile opposed to Saddam Hussein throughout the 90's and early 2000s?
I seem to recall groups of Iraqi exiles clammoring for Madelyin Albright to intervene to rid Iraq of Saddam, all throughout the 90s.
Guess when it was the same group doing so for President Bush, it didn't count. Seeing as he's a Republican and all.
Hey Anonymous, nice of you to stop by from whatever liberal Troll Hole of yours. How 'bout backing up your comments with a name?
Eric,
Have you forgotten about Chalabi, and the Free Iraq movement in exile opposed to Saddam Hussein throughout the 90's and early 2000s?
Chalabi? He's the voice of the world now? Hahahaha!! And if he represented the Iraqi people, why isn't he leading them now? That guy is a joke.
Unlike the people in this country, the folks in the East are quite adept at quickly getting rid of leaders that they no longer want in power.
I seem to recall groups of Iraqi exiles clammoring for Madelyin Albright to intervene to rid Iraq of Saddam, all throughout the 90s.
Do American expatriates represent the views of most Americans? If your answer is no, then how did you conclude that Iraqi expatriates represent the views of most Iraqis?
Guess when it was the same group doing so for President Bush, it didn't count. Seeing as he's a Republican and all.
If a group of American expatriates asked for a nation to step in and remove Bush from office via the same means we used to remove Hussein, would you support them?
Eric,
Don't you realize that Saddam Hussein was a beloved figure to the people he tortured? If you don't believe it, just ask Bent Alabama.
The chickeshit lobby will never concede any military success. To shitstain leftists like Bent Alabama, the United States has never been on the right side of any fight.
Uppp, just checked the site meter. We got a link to this article from Stumble Upon, and the hits are coming in big time. But there's a catch. Seems whoever uploaded it, believed it to be a Bush-bashing piece due to the first photo of Iraqi dead.
Get ready Chuck, others to get an influx of Lefty America-haters posting comments here.
It could get brutal.
Hey Eric: my name is Luisa DaSilva and I'm from Canada. I guess you don't like to be told the truth. Don't forget that the truth is hidden in the States. The more ignorant you remain, the better Washington will control it's nation. Obviously you must come the South (the Bible belt). If you really think that Bush went to Iraq to liberate them, well you're wrong. There are more American contractors in Iraq than Iraq soldiers. They make a lot of money. There's no recession for them in Iraq. This only my humble opinion. By the way, here in Canada we have several documentaries made by the Americans but never aired in the States. In case you didn't know, documentary means that it is documented = no lies. Being against the war has nothing to do with being a Liberal or a Republican... you are for peace or you're not.
Canada. Oh yeah, now I remember. That's the place where its a crime to criticize protected interest groups.
Fuck you.
And Luisa, how about "peace" for all those Iraqis killed under Saddam Hussein. 1.5 million. Another few hundred thousand others, such as Kuwaitis and Kurds, perished under Saddam, as well.
Do you all Canadians think we should just allow the Pol Pots of the world to kill their citizens with no interventions from the United States?
I thought Canadians were suppsed to be in favor of Human Rights?
Didn't you all enter WWII to fight Hitler a full 2 years before our own entry in the United States?
Have you completely given up on fighting the modern Hitlers in the world?
Oh, and for the record, Saddam Hussein was a Hitler worshipper, even kneeling down to his portrait 5 times a day at his Uncle's mud hut in Tikrit during his young adolescent years.
Yeah, you're right Chuck. Canada: the country that's trying to throw Marc Steyn in jail for holding politically incorrect views.
As Chuck says, Luis, a big mighty FUCK YOU!
"Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one."
George Orwell.
Eric, Don't you realize that Saddam Hussein was a beloved figure to the people he tortured?
Don't you realize that George Bush was a beloved figure to the people he tortured? If you don't believe it, just ask the resident choad.
The chickeshit lobby will never concede any military success.
The chicken hawk lobby will never concede that the world hates George Bush and was happy to see him go and can't wait until his military campaigns are done away with.
To shitstain leftists like Bent Alabama, the United States has never been on the right side of any fight.
To dick-cheese reactionists like the cchoad, the Republican Party is the source of all good in the world and God is just an afterthought.
The chicken hawk lobby will never concede that the world hates George Bush
The shitstain left repeats this mantra despite the fact that pro Bush candidates unseated anti Bush candidates in most western democracies of late. The world doesn't hate Bush or the US. The douchebag, dung beetle left here and abroad hate Bush and the US.
cchoad,
The world doesn't hate Bush or the US. The douchebag, dung beetle left here and abroad hate Bush and the US.
Yeah, that's why millions of people around the world protested Bush's actions over and over again. They were really protesting against those who DIDN'T support Bush, right? The pus-filled, coprophilic choads here hate the fact that even their fellow Americans hated Bush and his policies in the end.
Yeah, that's why millions of people around the world protested Bush's actions over and over again."
To the stupid, this is what passes for wit. The fact that "millions of people" are protesting Brakabama and the US doesn't phase these lobotomized shitbags in the least.
George Bush. Great president, or greatest president?
I'm going with greatest.
Anonymous, PLEASE include your name in posts.
Bush? I'm going with "Greatest Foreign Policy President."
On domestic issues, he caved too much to the Dems. He was way too squishy. Though, he gets major points for appointing the first former Libertarian Party Chair - Gayle Norton - to a Cabinet Post.
A proffesor of mine, Alonso Lujambio, designed the Iraqi constitution :o)
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