US-Iraq Relations, U.S.-Iraq Relations Quotes
A little over a decade later, it was the conservative President who was condemning Saddam Hussein for gassing his own people and justified the Iraq War in part over that. And in 2007 Saddam having been toppled from power, he was tried for this crimes against humanity with the major charge being his gassing of the Iraqi Kurds. He was hanged for the “liberal hate speech” which had turned into conservative hate speech, but was a correct accusation regardless of which political pole was making it. There were few issues where most Americans were as unanimous as Saddam’s guilt in the gassing of the Kurds with Limbaugh and Saddam’s relatives being about the only people who saw it as propaganda.
Immediately after the invasion, there was no census, and the coalition forces and the United Nations election supervisors were concerned that there was not yet a basis of creating regional and district representation so that the 3 major ethnic groups would all have reasonable representation. Nor were there any organized political institutions other than the religious ones. The subtlety that stable democracy is not a “winner take all” tyranny of the majority is lost on many people who see elections and democracy as synonymous. So elections were scheduled for the following year. Many in the Shiite majority wanted immediate elections so that they could control the country in which they had been dominated for years by the Sunni Bath Party minority.
