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sic semper tyrannus

The Bodies of Iraqi Villagers in the town of Halabja Iraq after a Chemical attack by Saddam Hussien on March 17, 1988.

After the chemical gas attack on the Iraqi town of Halabja, reporter Guy Dinmore of the Financial Times noted the following.

"It was life frozen. Life had stopped, like watching a film and suddenly it hangs on one frame. It was a new kind of death to me. You went into a room, a kitchen and you saw the body of a woman holding a knife where she had been cutting a carrot.

The aftermath was worse. Victims were still being brought in. Some villagers came to our chopper. They had 15 or 16 beautiful children, begging us to take them to hospital. So all the press sat there and we were each handed a child to carry. As we took off, fluid came out of my little girl's mouth and she died in my arms."

Saddam Hussein of Tikrit. May his name be blotted out.

It was he who engaged in acts of genocide against his own countrymen.

It was he who fought a war with Iran that included the use of Chemical and biological weapon attacks on civilians and military alike and fought so ruthlessly that the war eventually resulted in over three million dead.

It was he who invaded Kuwait and brutalized the population.

Saddam Hussein is now dead at the hands of a fledgling democracy that most people considered impossible just a few years ago, composed of the very people Saddam once tried to wipe from the earth.

Sic Semper Tyrannus. The age of the murdering dictator is now at an end.

UPDATE: Comment from a friend - "Attorney Ramsey Clark loses yet another high profile client to an unsympathetic justice system, what are the odds?"

UPDATE II: Tommorows headline today - "Saddam secretly disapproved of Bush reasons for invasion of Iraq."

Posted @ December 29, 2006 07:15 PM | Current Affairs

Posted by: Bob Agard at January 9, 2007 08:55 PM