Webloggin » The Softer Side Of Saddam Hussein

A heated discussion took place yesterday at Wizbang when some of the regular moonbat trolls entered into the fray to defend the AP’s use of questionable if not fake sources.

What was their defense? To summarize – why are the authors at Wizbang obsessed with questioning the veracity of “one AP report” when the United States has been committing atrocities against foreign cultures all over the world, including Iraq?

Typical of this sort of defense, the screed descended into the essential “life was better under Saddam” argument.

The timing couldn’t have been better however as the BBC news released their latest coverage of the Saddam Hussein trial.

Graphic video footage of dead Kurdish civilians allegedly killed in chemical attacks on their villages has been shown at Saddam Hussein’s trial.

The footage also showed villagers fleeing clouds of white smoke after aerial attacks.

The former Iraqi leader and six others deny all the charges against them in connection with a campaign against Iraqi Kurds.

More than 100,000 people died in the al-Anfal campaign in the 1980s.

Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The ex-president and his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, also face charges of genocide.

The defence argues it was a legitimate operation to quell a rebellion after some Kurds sided with the enemy during the Iran-Iraq war.

Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said the footage had been shot in several areas that were bombed with mustard gas.

Presenting footage showing dozens of dead children on the ground, Mr Faroon told the Baghdad court: “These children are the saboteurs that the defendants talk about.”

Defenders of Saddam Hussein relish the thought of vilifying the United States while ignoring a quarter century of crimes against humanity committed by the Butcher of Baghdad and his henchmen.

It is in this selective kind of memory that moral relativists find solace in when writing off the actions of otherwise evil dictators. “It’s their life, how dare we interfere?!!”

Unfortunately the graphic footage described in the BBC report above is just one small event under Saddam’s leadership that has left a trail of human suffering and resulted in a death toll of anywhere between 1 million and 2 million men, women and children by most accounts.

We are not talking about a good guy here and his lefty defenders need to be bonked upside the head for this sort of selective phony outrage.