[Gordongekko909]

Is the Save-Tookie crowd going to demand clemency for Saddamned, too?

[Billthedrill]

It seems surprising that such a robust denunciation of Saddam should come from France and even more so that many of the contributors of this scholarly work would be considered to be left of centre.

Similarly, the board of authors and editors behind the incredible Black Book of Communism were nearly all left of center. It is no real surprise to see that an official of Medecins Sans Frontieres is weighing in on the issue, however - they were there as the place was descending into hell and were on numerous occasions ejected from the country by Saddam.

It should be clear enough from this volume that Saddam was the engineer behind a thoroughly vicious police state on the European model and that it is hypocrisy of the first order simultaneously to insist that the U.S. was behind him or failed to do anything about his atrocities at one point and to chide the U.S. for removing him from office on the other.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Between February and September 1988, 100,000 to 180,000 Kurds died or disappeared. The bombing of the Kurdish village of Halabja with chemical weapons including mustard gas, tabun, sarin and VX on March 16, 1988, which killed 3000 to 5000 civilians, was the most publicised of these atrocities because it occurred near the Iranian border and Iranian troops were able to penetrate with the assistance of Kurds, filming and photographing the victims.

Yes, there were no WMD's... and Kurds were no concern of the UN.

[VOA]

"...Le Livre Noir de Saddam Hussein (The Black Book of Saddam Hussein)
is a robust denunciation of Saddam's regime ..."

And apparently not yet available on amazon.com.
I hope it does get a North American release in English...even if
it will have to be rated "XXX" for violence (and violent, non-consensual
sexual content).

[Capriole]

"The American war was perhaps not a good solution for getting rid of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But, as this book shows, after 35 years of a dictatorship of exceptional violence, which has destroyed Iraqi civil society and created millions of victims, there wasn't a good solution," Kutschera writes.

I get tired of hearing this: that the war was not a good solution to the problem of how to get ride of Saddam. Everything else had been tried, and there was no way to get rid of him without violence. But the left continues to wring its collective hands and weep that there must have been some other way to do the job. Fine. Suggest one.

[aculeus]

Determined to keep Saddam in power, the French never once denounced the dictator. Yet far from preventing war, the French veto in the Security Council facilitated it. In the absence of a UN resolution authorising force against Saddam, the only possibility was a US-led coalition.

[0siris]

Does anyone know when this book will see a U.S. release?

[Names Ash Housewares]

More proof the left is on the wrong side of history.