Blue Herald » Saddam Killed in the Nick of Time

Jan

by QuestionGirl

Silenced forever…..objective achieved.

Saddam’s death paves the way for U.S. troop escalation and ensures there will be no exposure of U.S. complicity in Saddam’s crimes

The death of Saddam Hussein came at the right time for his once long-term ally, the United States. It will lead to an increase in U.S. troops and provides cover for past ties between Saddam and Washington.

Saddam’s allies promised retaliation and more violence for the death of Saddam. And, the morning of Saddam’s death saw an immediate surge in violence. As the NY Times reports, “Within hours of the execution, at least 75 people were killed in nine bombing attacks of the kind that Sunni insurgents commonly carry out against Shiites. In the mainly Shiite districts of Hurriyah and Sayidah in Baghdad, separate sequences in which car bombs detonated in close succession caused at least 39 deaths. . .” By the end of the day reportedly 110 Iraqis were killed and 167 were wounded. With violence already escalating it will be hard to say whether a spike is Saddam-related, but his death will further strengthen the resolve of Sunni insurgents and make reconciliation more difficult.

Saddam’s death is likely to provide President Bush with another argument for sending tens of thousands of more American soldiers in Iraq - ‘we need the troops to stem the escalating unrest in Baghdad.’ Once again, Bush policies become self-fulfilling as the age-old truth shows its reality - violence begets violence - escalation in the language of surge. There are good arguments that this is one more step on the road to an attack on Iran. See http://democracyrising.us/content/view/694/164/.

But also Saddam’s death comes just in time to avoid a trial that could have embarrassed the United States. In April 2006 “the Iraq tribunal . . . announced new criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1980s crackdown against the Kurds, including the gassing of thousands of civilians in the village of Halabja.”