Executing Saddam raised lots of questions in my mind and made me think about where is this region is heading.
Ruling Iraq is not easy, 40% of the population are blindly loyal to Iran the enemy while 20% are demanding independency in the north, Iraq is a multi-ethnic country and managing to control them all is a difficult thing to do, but did Saddam had the chance to rule Iraq in democracy and peace and he didn’t? As I don’t see this happening even after 3 years of the American occupation.
Saddam is accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ over decades during his time as president of Iraq but what he was actually found guilty in was Dujail incident where less than 200 people died, but taking into consideration the controversy around Saddam and the whole buzz around him is this everything? Are we happy that “justice” was implemented by those who are killing thousands of Iraqis?
Iraq achieved victory in the war against Iran, then occupied Kuwait which brought disasters on Iraq, starting with gulf war in 1990, the 13 years siege and ending with a bloody American/International occupation in 2003 which was led by a wrong-fully motive, the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, while on the other hand Iran has a declared nuclear program and yet is only punched with minor sanctions.
But if Iran is announcing the news that it has the Nuke while Iraq never did and never had any nuclear weapons, then why Iraq was target over those years? Does occupying Kuwait deserve the destruction happened to Iraq over 16 years and even more to come?
