Comments on: Dear Demonstrators: How About Protesting Real Genocide?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:50:31 +0000

But Bridget,

since when is being against the war in Iraq being for Saddam gassing people? Please get yourself educated.

Your reporting is fanatically absurd.

Going into Iraq and destabilizing an entire country and paying hundreds of billions for it made matters worse, for Iraqis and now for us Americans.

How many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died because of the Neo-Cons lies?

Was Saddam evil? Sure. But the ends don’t justify the means.

By: Dissenter

Dissenter — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:36:42 +0000

This guy, “Its-all-bad”, like all anti-war protesters and pacifists, justifies Saadam’s criminal regime (“Hussein … did some good things for his country”) and blames as usual the US: “Something like 2 million have died, directly and indirectly, in the 17 year effort to depose Hussein and install a government acceptable to the US war establishment”. In this way Saadam killing 2 million people has only defended himself. Conclusion: the most criminal and bloody dictatorship is better than any democracy, most of all the American Democracy; and dictators, like Saadam Hussein, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao etc. are benefactors of the mankind, while democratic presidents, like George Bush, are its enemies. Well. It’s enough to see the intellectual and moral perversion of this Mr “Its-all-bad”.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:42:47 +0000

its_all_bad : “Hussein was bad for Iraq, but at least he did some good things for his country.”

Ah, the dreaded “He may have gassed his citizens, but at least he provided Health Care” argument. The impenetrable end-all of leftist Mongoloid reasoning.

By: its_all_bad

its_all_bad — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:04:26 +0000

I don’t know any anti-war protesters who approved of Saddam Hussein’s brutal tactics to remain in power. Donald Rumsfeld and other pro-war leaders did until Hussein stood up to them on some issues.

Something like 2 million have died, directly and indirectly, in the >17 year effort to depose Hussein and install a government acceptable to the US war establishment. Hussein was bad for Iraq, but at least he did some good things for his country. In contrast, the US has been worse for Iraq than Hussein, and what few good things the US has done are vastly outweighed by the harmful ones.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:21:21 +0000

Rich, Turkey isn’t exactly a comparable example. For decades, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Marxist-Leninist rebel group intent on taking part of Turkey for its own, has waged a violent campaign including thousands of assassinations, bombings, and, as Amnesty reported in 1997, killing 124 schoolteachers in Turkish villages. Fittingly, the PKK is regarded as a terrorist group by the U.S. and EU. The PKK is also not representative of the vast majority of Iraq’s Kurds, who a) prefer democracy to the hammer and sickle, and b) disapprove of the PKK’s violent tactics.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:43:16 +0000

U.S. friend and host of U.S. Military bases TURKEY has its own population of Kurds that it has been killing for years and now has had its own invasion of Iraq to kill more Kurds. The U.S. let Turkey come right on in to Iraq and kill Kurds. I guess these Kurds were not in the right place at the right time to get U.S. sympathies.

The weapons that Saddam Hussein used to kill Kurds were supplied to him by the U.S. These same weapons and support were used to fight Iran in the Iraq-Iran war. The U.S. was friends with Saddam Hussein until he didn’t want to do business our way.

By: Mikhail Evzlin

Mikhail Evzlin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:14:38 +0000

The anti-war protesters forget or don’t want to remember that the War in Iraq was against the absolutely criminal regime that killed political adversaries and ethnic and religious groups (at least 1.000.000 killed by the political police of Saadam Hussein according the most moderated estimation). I’ll never forget the photographs of the trucks full of bodies of Kurds killed with poisonous gas (The Gulf War, 1991). For all these liberal, that criticize Bush’s policies, these dead have no importance, like the infinite victims of communist terror. Why this indifference for the innocent people and why this anxiety for the criminals instead? In Stalinist Russia common criminals were called by the authorities “social allies”. So also for the liberals the criminals, dictators, terrorists are “social allies”.
The presence of the American troops in Iraq has broken a system of not only Islamist, but international terrorism, because Iraq under Saadam Hyssein was the Promised Land of all the terrorist groups, western and eastern, communist and Islamist. That’s why pacifists, that always defended the most criminal dictatorships, communist, fascist (do not forget that fascism is direct derivation from the socialist parties) and now Islamist, that infernal synthesis of both, hate so ardently President Bush who destroyed the Taliban’s and Saadam Hussein’s absolutely monstrous regimes. It is stupid to say that Saadam Hussein did not have connexions with Al Qaeda. He had connexions with all the terrorist organizations, not only with Al Qaeda. His “State” was transformed in a terrorist organization, like Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, North Korea, Castrist Cuba or Islamic Iran. The stupid French foreign minister has said “We have to talk with our enemies”. How is it possible to talk with terrorists who have as one and only goal to kill you?
I know well from my own experience the horror of totalitarian communist regime and can imagine what Islamofascist dictatorships means, so I feel an admiration for this truly great man as George W. Bush. The History will not change her course for whims of “liberal” politicians who desperately fight for their political survival, using the lowest procedures that in the end will harm them. Mankind’s survival is at stake, under the constant menace of some evil forces of destruction loomed up from the underground of the World. And it is the historical task of the United States to fight them: they cannot fail, if we still want to live in a human world and not in an Islamic or communist sewer.

By: Tel

Tel — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:25:35 +0000

And we all remember who got Saddam all tooled up in the first place, hmmm?

By: gule

gule — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:07:11 +0000

After twenty years, it is finally coming time for the kind of journalism like yours to reflect on how genocide happens and continues to be in the world.You exposed the source of a huge denial that we in the west have fostered against the Kurds. Many Turks Arabs and Persians here should read your article. It is the responsibility of us to seek justice and truly ask our creator to forgive and remember.