Ex-Saddam Hussein regime top official Tariq Aziz sentenced to death

[News_Editor]

Ex-Saddam Hussein regime top official Tariq Aziz sentenced to death

2010-10-26 16:29:42 GMT+7 (ICT)

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) – Tariq Aziz, a former top diplomat for Saddam Hussein, was sentenced on Tuesday to death by hanging over the persecution of Shiites, state TV reported.

Aziz was the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003. He was one of the best-known faces of Hussein's regime and he also served as Foreign Minister in that period.

The former top official was captured by U.S. forces in April 2003, shortly after the U.S. invasion that overthrown Saddam Hussein's government.

-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2010-10-26

[princejohnjay]

Prince John Jay likes this of course!!! waste the bastar_d

[gotlost]

This outcome was a no brainier. When is the neck tie party?

[Ulysses G.]

He deserves to be hung just for those crazy interviews he did on TV.

[Rumpole]

As the Thai Visa members settle down and get out their knitting .........

[hobanse]

He deserves to be hung just for those crazy interviews he did on TV.

Kissinger and Rumsfelds good business-partner sentencend to death

http://www.oilempire.us/saddam.html

[cloudhopper]

He deserves to be hung just for those crazy interviews he did on TV.

You don't mean this guy do you? He was never arrested and is now advising the Fed on how to respond to all those FOIA requests.

[Ulysses G.]

You are right. Sorry. That is actually good because I always thought that he was a harmless nut.

[hobanse]

Iraq is a mess, but before 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It was a highly urbanized society, dependent on a large service economy, with high standards of healthcare very widely available, and a complex infrastructure typical of a modern society. In 1990 about 71% of the 18.9 million population lived in cities, 80% of the labour force worked in the service sector, with only 12.5% in agriculture and 7.8% in industry. 97% of urban-dwellers and 70% rural-dwellers had access to health facilities, according to United Nations Development Programme criteria. The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system. Today that system is barely functioning.

More than 93.9% children were enrolled in primary school before the sanctions. Also pre-war, over 90% of the population had access to safe distributed water. Extensive health surveillance ensured a high quality of drinking water, and efforts to eradicate malaria, leishmaniasis and other water-borne diseases had saved Iraq from the epidemics found in many other developing countries.

[hobanse]

New York Times this morning, a horrible string of attacks across Iraq today signals that the insurgency is not dead nor depleted and can strike as it wills, no matter how prepared to stop them may be the obviously unready Iraqi counter-insurgent forces. As one Iraqi says in the article: "No water, no electricity, no security. Every day it gets worse."

American generals are so fat and comfortable, so out of touch with the peoples over whom they are appointed to govern in the name of the people of the USA, that the simple strategy of "going mole" or underground completely confuses them. Just because "the enemy", or Iraqi patriots, depending on whom you ask, kept quiet after being bribed to stop killing American soldiers, didn't mean the Iraq war had ended as any kind of success for the USA.

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/no-water-no-electricity-no-security-american-defeat-iraq

[Ulysses G.]

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens of Iraq. I'm not sure why anyone would refer to them as "Iraqi patriots" unless they supported such barbaric behavior.

[hobanse]

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens of Iraq. I'm not sure why anyone would refer to them as "Iraqi patriots" unless they supported such barbaric behavior.

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens in Gaza. The world ist not sure why anyone would refer to them as Israeli pstriots unless they supportet such barbaric behavior.

[SergeiY]

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens of Iraq. ...

Lets hope that all the murderers of the innocent citizens of Iraq face their justice and get what they deserve for their barbaric acts.

[Ulysses G.]

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens in Gaza.

Their represenitives - Hamas - used them as human shields and fired missles at Israel and the fire was returned. Nobody said that war is fair.

[chuckd]

Iraq is a mess, but before 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It was a highly urbanized society, dependent on a large service economy, with high standards of healthcare very widely available, and a complex infrastructure typical of a modern society. In 1990 about 71% of the 18.9 million population lived in cities, 80% of the labour force worked in the service sector, with only 12.5% in agriculture and 7.8% in industry. 97% of urban-dwellers and 70% rural-dwellers had access to health facilities, according to United Nations Development Programme criteria. The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system. Today that system is barely functioning.

More than 93.9% children were enrolled in primary school before the sanctions. Also pre-war, over 90% of the population had access to safe distributed water. Extensive health surveillance ensured a high quality of drinking water, and efforts to eradicate malaria, leishmaniasis and other water-borne diseases had saved Iraq from the epidemics found in many other developing countries.

Refresh my memory please. When did Iraq invade Kuwait?

I would like to read your source on these statistics you have provided.

[geriatrickid]

He deserves to be hung just for those crazy interviews he did on TV.

Kissinger and Rumsfelds good business-partner sentencend to death

http://www.oilempire.us/saddam.html

And what's your point? The decision was arrived at by a sovereign Iraq. The US would prefer that the man was not executed, however, the Americans have zero say in the matter,

BTW, Iraq supplies more oil to Syria, Turkey and Europe than it has ever supplied to the USA.

[geriatrickid]

New York Times this morning, a horrible string of attacks across Iraq today signals that the insurgency is not dead nor depleted and can strike as it wills, no matter how prepared to stop them may be the obviously unready Iraqi counter-insurgent forces. As one Iraqi says in the article: "No water, no electricity, no security. Every day it gets worse."

American generals are so fat and comfortable, so out of touch with the peoples over whom they are appointed to govern in the name of the people of the USA, that the simple strategy of "going mole" or underground completely confuses them. Just because "the enemy", or Iraqi patriots, depending on whom you ask, kept quiet after being bribed to stop killing American soldiers, didn't mean the Iraq war had ended as any kind of success for the USA.

http://www.examiner....can-defeat-iraq

If you have a problem with Iraqi security take it up with the Iraqis who have been in charge of their military and police forces ever for several years now. Better yet, ask Iran to stop funding the insurgents.

[geriatrickid]

Iraq is a mess, but before 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It was a highly urbanized society, dependent on a large service economy, with high standards of healthcare very widely available, and a complex infrastructure typical of a modern society. In 1990 about 71% of the 18.9 million population lived in cities, 80% of the labour force worked in the service sector, with only 12.5% in agriculture and 7.8% in industry. 97% of urban-dwellers and 70% rural-dwellers had access to health facilities, according to United Nations Development Programme criteria. The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system. Today that system is barely functioning.

More than 93.9% children were enrolled in primary school before the sanctions. Also pre-war, over 90% of the population had access to safe distributed water. Extensive health surveillance ensured a high quality of drinking water, and efforts to eradicate malaria, leishmaniasis and other water-borne diseases had saved Iraq from the epidemics found in many other developing countries.

Right. What about the tens of thousands of Iraqis murdered by Sadaams regime? What of the marsh dwelelrs slaughtered? What of the women terrorized and raped? What of the national soccer team that was torutred for losing a game? What of the invasion of Kuwait?

Oh that's right, it never occurred.

[SergeiY]

Right. What about the tens of thousands of Iraqis murdered by Sadaams regime? What of the marsh dwelelrs slaughtered? What of the women terrorized and raped? What of the national soccer team that was torutred for losing a game? What of the invasion of Kuwait?

Oh that's right, it never occurred.

Yes, we read it all in the wikileaks. Tell some sad stories about women, so that the people will believe the war was/is just.

Edited October 28, 2010 by SergeiY

[hobanse]

Iraq is a mess, but before 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It was a highly urbanized society, dependent on a large service economy, with high standards of healthcare very widely available, and a complex infrastructure typical of a modern society. In 1990 about 71% of the 18.9 million population lived in cities, 80% of the labour force worked in the service sector, with only 12.5% in agriculture and 7.8% in industry. 97% of urban-dwellers and 70% rural-dwellers had access to health facilities, according to United Nations Development Programme criteria. The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system. Today that system is barely functioning.

More than 93.9% children were enrolled in primary school before the sanctions. Also pre-war, over 90% of the population had access to safe distributed water. Extensive health surveillance ensured a high quality of drinking water, and efforts to eradicate malaria, leishmaniasis and other water-borne diseases had saved Iraq from the epidemics found in many other developing countries.

Refresh my memory please. When did Iraq invade Kuwait?

I would like to read your source on these statistics you have provided.

How to start a war!

US Ambassador Glaspie:

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasise the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

(Saddam smiles)

At a Washington press conference called the next day (July 26, 1990), US State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler was asked by journalists:

"Has the United States sent any type of diplomatic message to the Iraqis about putting 30,000 troops on the border with Kuwait? Has there been any type of protest communicated from the United States government?"

To which Tutweiler responded

"I'm entirely unaware of any such protest."

On July 31, 1990, two days before the Iraqi invasion, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, testified to Congress that the

"United States has no commitment to defend Kuwait and the US has no intention of defending Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq."

The trap had been baited very cleverly by Glaspie, reinforced by Tutweiler's and Kelly's supporting comments. And Saddam Hussein walked right into it, believing that the US would do nothing if his troops invaded Kuwait. On August 2, 1990, eight days after Glaspie's meeting with the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein's massed troops invaded Kuwait.

http://www.informati...rticle11376.htm

Edited October 28, 2010 by hobanse

[chuckd]

Iraq is a mess, but before 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It was a highly urbanized society, dependent on a large service economy, with high standards of healthcare very widely available, and a complex infrastructure typical of a modern society. In 1990 about 71% of the 18.9 million population lived in cities, 80% of the labour force worked in the service sector, with only 12.5% in agriculture and 7.8% in industry. 97% of urban-dwellers and 70% rural-dwellers had access to health facilities, according to United Nations Development Programme criteria. The World Health Organisation in Baghdad reports that before the Gulf War, 93% of the population had access to a free, modern, high quality health care system. Today that system is barely functioning.

More than 93.9% children were enrolled in primary school before the sanctions. Also pre-war, over 90% of the population had access to safe distributed water. Extensive health surveillance ensured a high quality of drinking water, and efforts to eradicate malaria, leishmaniasis and other water-borne diseases had saved Iraq from the epidemics found in many other developing countries.

Refresh my memory please. When did Iraq invade Kuwait?

I would like to read your source on these statistics you have provided.

How to start a war!

US Ambassador Glaspie:

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasise the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

(Saddam smiles)

At a Washington press conference called the next day (July 26, 1990), US State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler was asked by journalists:

"Has the United States sent any type of diplomatic message to the Iraqis about putting 30,000 troops on the border with Kuwait? Has there been any type of protest communicated from the United States government?"

To which Tutweiler responded

"I'm entirely unaware of any such protest."

On July 31, 1990, two days before the Iraqi invasion, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, testified to Congress that the

"United States has no commitment to defend Kuwait and the US has no intention of defending Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq."

The trap had been baited very cleverly by Glaspie, reinforced by Tutweiler's and Kelly's supporting comments. And Saddam Hussein walked right into it, believing that the US would do nothing if his troops invaded Kuwait. On August 2, 1990, eight days after Glaspie's meeting with the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein's massed troops invaded Kuwait.

http://www.informati...rticle11376.htm

What does your latest ramble have to do with all those imaginary statistics which I questioned?

Where is the link to prove the validity of your statistics?

Come on, Hobanse. Posting on a forum isn't nuclear physics.

[SergeiY]

They killed a bunch of innocent citizens in Gaza.

Their represenitives - Hamas - used them as human shields and fired missles at Israel and the fire was returned. Nobody said that war is fair.

It isn't funny.

[slapout]

Saddam, his henchmen and his sons apparently believed what they thought they heard and not what was staring them in the face. This seems to be a failing of many of the despots throughout history. The survivors of the internal cleansing of Iraq as well as other countries, may argue about the benefits available to them and their deceased clan/family members under Saddam, Taliban, etc. I would suggest asking his/their extended family who disagreed with them, but sadly it seems, several are not available for comment.

Life is recognized as unfair, much less, as has been pointed out, war. The anti US crowd seem to ignore the real possibility/probability that without US involvement, the rest of the world would not tolerate the injustices which the <deleted> of the world subject others to. There have been a few times that the US was pressured to get off of the neutral fence they seemed to be straddling. Today, many of the citizens of those countries who asked for US assistance/support, point the finger of overall blame at what proved to be their benefactor.

[SergeiY]

Saddam, his henchmen and his sons apparently believed what they thought they heard and not what was staring them in the face. This seems to be a failing of many of the despots throughout history. The survivors of the internal cleansing of Iraq as well as other countries, may argue about the benefits available to them and their deceased clan/family members under Saddam, Taliban, etc. I would suggest asking his/their extended family who disagreed with them, but sadly it seems, several are not available for comment.

Life is recognized as unfair, much less, as has been pointed out, war. The anti US crowd seem to ignore the real possibility/probability that without US involvement, the rest of the world would not tolerate the injustices which the <deleted> of the world subject others to. There have been a few times that the US was pressured to get off of the neutral fence they seemed to be straddling. Today, many of the citizens of those countries who asked for US assistance/support, point the finger of overall blame at what proved to be their benefactor.

The USA, weren't they once the big ally and supporter of Saddam?

[slapout]

Why would you ask such a question, all knowing one?