Free Saddam : Melbourne Indymedia

Saddam Hussein is now facing a kangaroo court, it has been as hastily set up as he was, and it will pronounce his guilt and carry out an execution under the directorship of the bank robber Chalabi.
How wonderful! this is positively priceless!
Can we stand any more bullshit I wonder? What now? A far trail after a fair war and no WMD, can we be fooled some more?…WELL BRING IT ON WHY DON’T YA

All charges relate to his actions while in power, they include his invasion of Kuwait, the deaths of Kurds and the human rights violations of the Iran Iraq war during the 1980s.

I am sure he will defend his actions; the invasion of Kuwait was justifiable after all, (more so than Iraq’s current occupation) Saddam had asked Kuwait to stop stealing Iraqi oil for a decade and Kuwait under US protection refused to negotiate.
Kuwait’s oil derricks are still situated on the fence line between the two countries and Kuwait still produces oil there, and only there I might add.
For the last twenty years, (even though its southern fields have been exhausted for more than 30), Kuwait has been able to maintain regular shipments from a small cluster of derricks on the northern border (makes you wonder when Kuwait’s oil was totally exhausted and when they began stealing.)

America was Kuwait’s best customer during the 80 s and US oil interests did go to some trouble to install directional drilling technology in 1996 with the purpose of giving greater access to oil reserves well inside Iraqi territory.

You’ll see reference to this in the Simpson’s, when oil is found beneath Bart’s School Burns steals it with his reclining derrick set up down the street.

Back in the late 1980’s the situation suited America while Reagan supported Saddam s fight against Iran, a joint foe as the Rumsfelt Iraq visit testifies in 1986. The oil flowed at a constant and affordable rate from Iraq and Kuwait (but not from Iran) to be sequestered in the exhausted oil fields of North America.

In 1990 Saddam was confident that America would broker a deal between the two nations and Kuwait would stop its pilfering, then no further action would be necessary.
The situation was transparent as far as Saddam could see and his options were clear, a theft had occurred, Kuwait was stealing and there was no defense. Kuwait would have to back down because they had no way to win against Iraq, Kuwait could not physically defend themselves nor could they legally defend their actions, and besides who would defend a thief and who could let the theft continue? (America?)

Saddam finally advised the US embassy in Baghdad in July 1990 that war was inevitable if its demands were not met and gave Kuwait one month to avoid a conflict. This was reported in all the dailies of the time and as seen on TV. (But never mentioned since)

America’s response to Iraq’s declaration of war a month before the invasion began should be of great concern to the Kangaroo court of Iraq’s puppet regime. If the court hearing is to be fair and open Saddam will say much the same thing.
We know that there can be no legal reason why one country cannot invade another, back then or now. We know that each should investigate all possible ways to avoid conflict, and in this case Saddam tried to take the diplomatic approach, he had for many years demanded that Kuwait cease, but had been stonewalled.

Of course Saddam will be executed, but it is important to remember that our world was safer when he ruled and Iraq was a better place. Iraq had water and electricity and once sanctions were lifted after the 2003 Blix s UN inspection, Iraq would have become a great and progressive nation once again.

Saddam was never a nice leader, his regime was bought to power and held there by American assistance, he was never a saint but he kept the tribes apart, and he transformed a backward country into an educated one.
Free education to university level was on offer, and all children had a future regardless of sex or religious background. He was even awarded UNESCO’s education prize and in 1989 he was awarded most respected Muslim leader, (how things have changed)

There were more women in his government than Australia can boast, more women in top jobs and a protected secular society an opposite of a current rise in fundamentalist Muslim warlords who offer no such illusions of fair play.
It would not get me very far to paint Saddam as a saint but he was a progressive leader and well respected.
During the last battles of the war he stood unarmed in the streets of Baghdad on top of a car, you can see the footage, and he spoke to the cheering crowd, they waved and held up their guns. Saddam had no ones protection; no bodyguards and no bullet proof glass between him and his people, could Bush do the same thing in Washington?

Without all the bad press and with US support Saddam could get away with all that has been accused. Sharon is doing all right, Uzbekistan remains an ally, but then they do as they are told. With US support Saddam could say, “I only repeated what my intelligence relayed to my office, I did not order the mistreatment of Kurds. I did not mislead the UN.
The Kurds died from a gas leak, it was a unfortunate industrial accident, similar to the unfortunate Union Carbide catastrophe in Bhopal years ago, I do not remember any tears shed then or people made to pay, where are your tears for the 3000 Indians who died that night, or are they only reserved for tower victims?

Today the installed puppet regime has as much chance of success as Sad dams defense team, it will falter and fail just as the puppet regime failed in Afghanistan.

Props don’t make a good puppet show, as those props will be pulled away.

Ossama bin Laden once offered us an alternative to all of this, he offered to take out the threat, he offered to fight to liberate Kuwait and to defeat Iraq in 1990(as reported in, The history of Al Qaeder and the readers digest)
However we turned him down and into an enemy, it was the wrong thing to do.
Sheik Laden should have been supported, he is the only one who has remained true to his word while our leaders lie, cheat, murder and are consistent at it.
Since the Afghan Russian war Sheik laden has been at war against foreign interference in Arab Lands, we supported him against Russia, Armed his troops and trained his men. When did his battle change?

Ok his enemy changed nationality, the battle grew more intense and he took the battle worldwide, but the occupation of Arab lands continued and remained key to his involvement.
Western interest should not hold the strings of Saudi or any other Middle eastern nation, that’s what he’s fighting, that’s what he’s always fought…he has never changed.
Once he takes out Saudi oil he will win, because we are gone without it, that is our weakness, the oil is the only reason for all of this.

Never loose sight of the fact that Middle Eastern oil is the only reason we live in comfort, the only reason the west is rich and the only reason there is war in the middle east, if you still think peace was the reason then you only have to look at Afghanistan to see the future of Iraq, US puppet regimes will not survive, Arabs need a ‘Saddam’.

So far US lead aggression has caused the deaths of 2.8 million Iraqi civilian lives over 14 years of war in Iraq, and we condone this. The west has killed more people than Saddam did in 25 years.
US lead aggression in Afghanistan has lead to the deaths of 50.000 app. Afghanis while The Afghani people or Taliban never harmed any westerner.
Westerners condone torture and we condone the continuing genocide in Israel at a cost of 4 billion dollars annually given without break for decades or condition that Israel obeys UN sanctions.
We deserve to lose this war as we have lost all compassion for our victims in a single purpose crusade for resources.
At a dollar a liter, petrol is cheap because the cost has yet to come.
When Iraq was handed some thing called sovereignty last week did they get the control of oil or does Halliburton have the contract?
When will Australians get sovereignty?

Thank you for your time.