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Hussein was BETTER?

Did I miss the revolution? 

Liberals by the dozens are continuing to spit in the face of the majority of Americans.

Even though most polls show that most of us think the situation is better in Iraq, the Libs continue to tell us we are wrong.

Now don't get me wrong, things need to be a lot better in Iraq but to say that Hussein was better than what the Iraqis have now?

Earlier this month (March 2006), an AP poll showed that over 68% of the American people think Iraq IS better off now than with Hussein.

Could all these rumblings be, GULP, politically motivated? Let's look at the facts, boys and girls:

In a New York Post poll taken in December 2005, forty-one percent of Democrats gave Saddam a thumbs up, while just 34 percent said Iraq is better served with the murderous dictator gone.

In stark contrast, 78 percent of Republicans said toppling the mass-murdering leader left everyone better off. Just 10 percent said they wished Saddam still ruled Iraq.

Then we have these pillars of the liberal left and their statements:

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has said that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life.

While ignoring reports about the brutal dictator's rape rooms and other forms of persecution that were routine for women under his regime, Sen. Clinton insisted: "On paper, women had rights."

In 2004, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told Jim Lehrer that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein,

     "Are we better... are the Iraqis better off that we went in there, and are we better off? And in both cases I cannot answer yes."

The costs of the war in Iraq have outweighed the benefits of removing Saddam Hussein, former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper in 2004.

    "It's positive that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when one weighs the costs, it's clearly the negative aspects that dominate."

Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, doesn't think the Iraqis are better off with dictator Saddam Hussein out of power and in prison. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" in 2005, the fiery former Vermont governor said, 

     "It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq."

{Mr. Dean, not only are you nuts but you are starting to waffle more than Kerry did. "...and this could change..." sounds an a lot like political speak for "I'll wait and see what the voters think." And this guy is the HEAD of the snake, er, party.}

Mr. Dean was the guy who said right after Saddam was found hiding in a "spider hole" that his capture by U.S. troops "has not made America safer."

In 2005, media mogul Ted Turner said that Iraq is "no better off" following the U.S.-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Turner said the situation in Iraq is serious but not hopeless. He raised concerns about global overpopulation, poverty and hunger. He also called for nuclear disarmament.

Talk about your Democratic "talking points." Poverty, hunger, and no nukes. I'm certainly glad the rest of us don't want the world to be better. Boy, Ted, how about using your own noggin there big guy...

Here's just some of the things these left-wing fruitcakes think were better under Saddam:

-- Under Saddam's regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions - the vast majority of them Muslims.

-- According to a 2001 Amnesty International report, "victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks... some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage."

-- Saddam has had approximately 40 of his own relatives murdered.

-- Allegations of prostitution used to intimidate opponents of the regime, have been used by the regime to justify the barbaric beheading of women.

-- Documented chemical attacks by the regime, from 1983 to 1988, resulted in some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.

-- Human Rights Watch estimates that Saddam's 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurds. 

-- The Iraqi regime used chemical agents to include mustard gas and nerve agents in attacks against at least 40 Kurdish villages between 1987-1988. The largest was the attack on Halabja which resulted in approximately 5,000 deaths.

-- 2,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror.

-- Iraq's 13 million Shi'a Muslims, the majority of Iraq's population of approximately 22 million, face severe restrictions on their religious practice, including a ban on communal Friday prayer, and restriction on funeral processions.

-- According to Human Rights Watch, "senior Arab diplomats told the London-based Arabic daily newspaper al-Hayat in October [1991] that Iraqi leaders were privately acknowledging that 250,000 people were killed during the uprisings, with most of the casualties in the south."

-- Refugees International reports that the "Oppressive government policies have led to the internal displacement of 900,000 Iraqis, primarily Kurds who have fled to the north to escape Saddam Hussein's Arabization campaigns (which involve forcing Kurds to renounce their Kurdish identity or lose their property) and Marsh Arabs, who fled the government's campaign to dry up the southern marshes for agricultural use. More than 200,000 Iraqis continue to live as refugees in Iran."

-- The U.S. Committee for Refugees, in 2002, estimated that nearly 100,000 Kurds, Assyrians and Turkomans had previously been expelled, by the regime, from the "central-government-controlled Kirkuk and surrounding districts in the oil-rich region bordering the Kurdish controlled north."

--  "Over the past five years, 400,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died of malnutrition and disease, preventively, but died because of the nature of the regime under which they are living." (Prime Minister Tony Blair, March 27, 2003) 

--  Under the oil-for-food program, the international community sought to make available to the Iraqi people adequate supplies of food and medicine, but the regime blocked sufficient access for international workers to ensure proper distribution of these supplies.

--  Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces have discovered military warehouses filled with food supplies meant for the Iraqi people that had been diverted by Iraqi military forces.

--  The Iraqi regime has repeatedly refused visits by human rights monitors. From 1992 until 2002, Saddam prevented the UN Special Rapporteur from visiting Iraq.

--  The UN Special Rapporteur's September 2001, report criticized the regime for "the sheer number of executions," the number of "extrajudicial executions on political grounds," and "the absence of a due process of the law."

Executions: Saddam Hussein's regime has carried out frequent summary executions, including:

--  4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984;
--  3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998;
--  2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a "prison cleansing campaign"; 
--  22 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000; 
--  23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001; 
--  At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001;

Yeah, I really think the Iraqi people want Hussein back.

Thanks for spending part of your day reading about mine.

Tim "cobra74" Kenney