face to face with the monster..you want a reason for us to be in iraq..there it is...we got rid of one monster will get rid of the rest of them.. go army

A touching reminder of what those people suffered at the hands of this monster...and now they see him for what he is...a bully, a coward, a merciless tyrant that deserves to be turned out to these people and let them have their way with him...and let Allah save his sorry ass.

We need to remember why we are in Iraq, it is not about weapons of mass destruction, but about the destruction of humans, tortured and kept down by a maniacal monster. This man is a hero to be able to face Sadaam who had butchered his people. We as Americans need to stop being afraid of standing for freedom, before the crazy American haters send a nuke and blow us up, never mind political correctness, we are facing a third world war!!!!!!!

Other than the USS Stark incident and the alleged bomb plot against Bush 41, Iraq never attacked the US. Invaded Kuwait and fought Iran, yes, but attacked the US, no.

What about the Americans who butchered the Indians (native Americans)? Should they have been invaded and killed?

I applaude the bravery of this man and cannot imagine the atrocities that he has seen. If it were not for the United States and the war in Irag, this man may have never gotten this opportunity to face this murderer. The war is becoming more and more unpopular, but freedom has never come cheaply. I'm sure it is worth it to this man.....

Saddam's been gone for three and half years now, and things are worse than ever over there, and not getting any better - I don't think he was the problem, bush's failed attempt at nationbuilding is the problem... Iraq was clearly better off under Saddam.

Yes, a monster, indeed. And good riddance.

However, to those of you who wish to believe this justifies the war, recall that we the American people were deliberately misled as to the justification for going to war. We were not sold on regime change, but Iraq’s perceived immediate threat to the US (WMD) & the false premise of Iraq’s ties to 911.

In the meantime, since the war started, tens of thousands of Iraqis have died and continue to die as a result of this administration’s incomprehensible & arrogant lack of planning and imagination.

There are many brutal dictators, monsters if you will, in the world. This is not a reason for this war. It is a lame apologist excuse.

While it can be debated, I for one agree that taking Sadam out was and is a good thing. Sooner or later he was going to be a problem. However, after reading Cobra II and watching the developments since "Mission Accomplished" I think the way Bush, the neo-cons, and Rumsfeld planned and conducted the war is/was criminal. It has taken out Sadam who was a future threat and replaced him with a totally destabilized region where now Iran is a much bigger and more near term threat against which we are now in a much weaker position from which it can be countered.

Saddam was never anything but a weak old man. He required body doubles, constant supervision by bodyguards, and ever changing scenery to keep his enemies guessing. Iraqis submitted to Saddam out of fear. They could have also chosen to stand up to him. Sure, a portion of the population would have died, but they did anyway. I have little sympathy for those who submit to tyranny. Those who do, deserve what they get.

Does anyone remember Bush the 1st or the Reagan administrations that supported saddam during the most butcherous portion of his reign? I know there are those who will disagree, but I believe we owed the Iraqi people freedom from this despot. Cold war politics necessitated our support for him against Iran at the time, but now that that's over, we needed to make amends, which we've done. We gave this monster his teeth, it's only right that we're the ones who take them away.

The people in the middle east are not that interested in democracy because they believe it is destructive. America has a history of violating the rights of its own citizens, so why would others be quick to embrace democratic ideals.

Yes, Saddam was a brutal dictator and corrupt man, but he did keep a balance in widely diverse country that is now splintering beyond repair. Democracy was not paramont toBush and hisadministration, oil was and is the ongoing issue here. We are stuck in Iraq for the forseeable future. We have to repair the damage we have done. we owe the rest of the world that. Trials for the criminals in this administration should follow.

Saddam, a monster? Yes, but was he any worse than the people that are kidnapping,suicide bombing,BEHEADINGS, car bombs, shooting morters and planting IED'S? The whole nation {IRAQ} of people must be Idiots. In the end he is no worse than the rest of Iraqi's.

will sadamms trial finally be over when he dies of old age???? yes , why because his trial is a big joke and he knows he can keep it going for ever. that because the stupid judge will not keep trial going day after day an quit dragging it out. it should have been over months ago.

Saddam Hussein deserves everything he gets, including the establishment of democracy in Iraq. He was another Adolph Hitler threatening world peace. He attempted to kill many an American pilot enforcing the no-fly zone (and the UN did not seem to care about American pilots threatened by Saddam). He manipulated the UN through the oil for food scam. Iraq would be a better place if the likes of Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean had not been encouraging terrorists since day one of the war. Politics and personal profits are more important to these traitors than national security. Go Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy and our coalition allies. Give them what they need to finish the job of training the Iraqi's to fend for themselves. What part of this strategy do the critics not understand that is so important they must undermine world security and encourage the slaughter of innocents!!

Oh please shut up with "we're in Iraq to get rid of a bad man." PLEASE! First it was WMDs, second reason to invade was Al Quieda connections, third reason to invade was the 'Yellow Cake'. When all of those reasons were shown to be false...THEN they decided that Saddam was a bad UN-defying citizen-killing man and invaded.

But there were worse atrocities occuring right that second in Africa. But no...we didn't invade the Sudan did we?

It is not the job of the USA to knock down regimes and set up new governments. If one nation invades an ally, then that is grounds for war. Anything less is war by choice and is untenable.

We may have gotten rid of Saddam...but what about Osama? What about the erosion of our own liberties?

Saddam broken and now feeling a bit of his own generocity. A man that at one time would kill any member of his party to prove absolute power. A man that had followers that lived only to do as he demanded. Saddam even imprisoned in the United States of America will never experience the cruelty that he had displayed over his reign. Saddam should be released into general population and not be given any special treatment. The man is a mass murderer he should be treated like one, we don't protect americans that are incarserated for murder. Why should we give him such treatment.

You are right Dj talking about Saddam killing people back years ago... The pride State we call US killed thousands of indians to take there land where is the justice there. We all in another Country trying to solve their problems. When our Country is all screw up. Pull our troops out and leave those people to be. YOu screwing up our gas prices bush, be glad when you term is serve cause you wont get back in that chair again and now of you relative, kinfolks or blood......

americans just don,t get it!Most don,t understand the Iraqui mind set.As long as Saddam is alive many people in Iraq truly believe that he has the ability to come back.Stupid you say? Not at all,he still has the ability to direct his former henchmen by whatever means possible,a gesture,a meeting with his lawyers,whatever.Until this farce of a trial is over and he swings on the end of a rope the underground war will continue.For Gods sake get it over with ie the Nurenburg trials.The end result will prove it.

Who is the bigger monster: George W. Bush, or Saddam? I think the answer is a matter of perspective only. From my perspective, Saddam has never done anything to me. W., however, has championed many efforts to kill many liberties that I and others enjoyed. W. has pursued policies which have eroded our Constitution. W. has represented America, to the world, as a nation of lying idiots, damaging relations with allies worldwide, and providing cannon fodder to our enemies. W. hugs and kisses Saudi royals, who finance radical anti-American education. W. used the courts to seize power. I could go on. Suffice it to say that Bush has had a direct, negative impact on my life, and Saddam has not. I can see how Iraqis might feel Saddam is the bigger monster, yet maybe many Iraqis are not considering that America's Republican dynasty helped prop up Saddam to begin with. W. is simply the latest chapter in that dynasty; and I do mean nasty.

I find it interesting that throughout human history, we tend to believe strongly that there are throw-away cultures and throw-away people. We believe that if we offer a few lives to the dictators, they will be appeased and we can go about our business living our elegant lives. We comfort ourselves with the nebulous thought that it's none of our business.

That would be nice, really, since it would mean we don't have to send our sons and daughters into someone else's problems. It means we don't offer our resources to another country that, by our standards, isn't quite as fortunate as we are.

Frank Morse's comments about Saddam keeping a "balance in a widely diverse country" reminds me of the horrific experience the Little Rock Nine had when they first tried to break down racial barriers in education. A school official was overhead saying in the principal's office that if "we" let one of the LR9 be killed by the mob, then maybe it would appease them and the violence would end.

What a terrible thought. If we had let Saddam continue his genocide and bludgeoning of his own people to save our own hide, we show we are weak and gutless, and we show that we are no better than him in how we value life. In this case, the balance Mr. Morris speaks of does not exist. It is really the conflict between life and death, cowardice and courage, sanctity of life versus our own safety.

Which value is greater here?

the american people are clearly being misled in this entire war cause because the government are not telling us everything. wasn't it al quaida who planned and carried out september 11, not some homicidal dictator in iraq. and weren't many of the hijackers from saudi arabia, our supposed ally. we all need to do our own research and find our own information because the bush administration is not doing that.

the bush administration opened a pandoras box and letloose a sectarian nightmare on the Iraqui people with lies deception and deliberate misinformations

Yes it's good to see this monster out of commission. But what do we do now? How can we end this occupation?

1. The Iraqis don’t want it to end. They know that if they “stand up” and the US soldiers leave, the money from the US pouring into that country will eventually stop. They don’t want their sugar daddy to leave. They will milk this for every penny they can.
2. Military contractors, including Halliburton, don’t want it to end. They are making a lot of money on this war. Stop the war and the money stops.

The only way that the war is going to end is for the US to give the Iraqis a deadline for departure. Once they realize that the sugar daddy is moving out then you will see them standing up real fast. We can not be expected to baby-sit the Iraqis forever while they have a civil war.

We have been in Iraq almost as long as we fought World War II. It’s time to give a deadline and leave.

http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/08/interview_with_lt_col_buzz_pat/

Clinton military advisor: HARMONY documents will "connect the dots" on Hussein and terrorism

Saddam's VAST terror ties have been gradually exposed post-invasion through the recovered paperwork of his intelligence services. According to Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, even more damning evidence of Saddam's terror ties is on the way. The worst part is that the Clinton administration was aware he was sponsoring terrorism for years and had too many domestic issues that took presidence.

Audio link above.