This Is the Man the Anti-War Crowd Says We Should Have Left In Power

It seems their blind hate for President Bush trumps all. They would rather an entire country suffer under a dictator that has time and time again, kidnapped, murdered and tortured thousands of his own countrymen. I think it sickening that people put politics first, even over what is right. And removing Saddam from power was right, Bush Sr. and Clinton dropped the ball, this should have been done long ago.

A Kurdish villager testified Tuesday that he fled an attack by Saddam Hussein's forces 18 years ago, leaving behind his mother and two sisters. Years later, their identity cards were discovered in a mass grave, he said.

"Congratulations! you are in a cage, Saddam," witness Ghafour Hassan Abdullah said as he stared at the ousted president. Saddam later lashed out at "agents of Iran and Zionism" in the courtroom and vowed to "crush your heads."


"At night, I heard the screaming of women and children," he said. He said he fled to neighboring Iran, but that his mother and two sisters went missing. Years later, their ID cards were found in a mass grave near Hatra, he said.

Abdullah asked rhetorically why the Kurds, a non-Arab minority, was suppressed under the ousted regime.

"Why? Because we are Kurds. Why did all disasters befall on us? Because we are Kurds."

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Another witness, Kurdish farmer Mahmoud Hama Aziz, said he lost a brother in fighting with Iraqi forces in 1987, months before their village was razed.

"They (Iraqi forces) stole everything in the village, then burned it down," he said in Kurdish, through an Arabic translator.

He said he fled with two friends to the Iranian border, leaving behind a sister-in-law and her five children who later went missing. In 2004, he identified bodies of four of them found in a mass grave in northern Iraq.

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A third witness, Omar Khudhir Mohammed Amin, 53, said he lost 19 members of his family — including his four brothers and sisters and their children — in the offensive.

"The court in Sulaimaniyah asked for me. I went there and was shown their IDs. They showed me six IDs that belonged to my relatives. I told them I want to visit them, but court officials told me they are in a mass grave in Hatra," he said.

-from Foxnews.com-