Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein

TWO MAD MEN

Each one power hungry. Each one greedy. Each one ambitious. Each one convinced of his own genius. Each one dreamed of presiding over an obedient, adoring multitude. Each one dangerously disturbed.

Their converging paths would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Kurds, Iraqis, and Americans.

How ironic that both of these men should meet again, 23 years later, in the news!

Saddam Hussein, the deposed dictator of Iraq, was sentenced by an American-appointed kangaroo court in Baghdad, to death by hanging. Although, not many object to Hussein's death sentence, the trial in Iraq, by a fledgling court, was at best a fiasco. Justice was not done because "whole truth" was not told.

A trial in the International Court before judges trained in international law and crimes against humanity, and argued by lawyers with the same expertise, would have detailed before the world the circumstances that afforded Hussein's rise from obscurity to the Presidency of Iraq. Details that the Bush Administration and American Conservatives would rather not come to light. Details that would have exposed Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader who presided over the torture and deaths of thousands of Iranians, Kurds, and Iraqis, as the product of years of American foreign policy failure. Yes, Saddam Hussein, psychopath and convicted murderer, was "made in America".

So was NeoCon Donald Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense, whose ouster is being called for by the "Army Times". Today, the Army Times, along with the Air Force Times, Navy Times and the Marine Corps Times are running a joint editorial calling for the inept, fussy, delusional, secretary "to go"! The micro-managing Rumsfeld thinks so highly of his skills(?) that he has forced out or dismissed numerous experts on Iraq, the Middle East, and Islam as well as officers and agents with long years of experience in the region. Rummy does not get along well with others, is a very poor listener, and wanted to do it HIS WAY! He didn't need no stinkin' generals and the continuing chaos in Iraq proves it!

When Saddam Hussein was recruited by the American CIA way back in 1958, he was nothing more than a two-bit Baathist thug sipping tea in Tikrit. Choosen for his killer instinct he was "our boy" until he made the mistake of betraying President George Bush Sr. in 1990. Despite the fact that Hussein was known to be using chemical warfare on Iranian troops and Iraqi civilians, American taxpayers during the presidencies of both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, funded Saddam's regime to the tune of 5 billion dollars in government-guaranteed loans. Additional billions in military equiptment and training, computers with military programs, grain from the Midwest, dual use chemicals, medical supplies, and more were given to Saddam's Baathist regime.

When Rumsfeld met with Hussein in 1983, he was acting as a Special Envoy for Republican President Reagan. His instructions were to "initiate a dialogue and establish personal rapport" and to "emphasize his close relationship with the president" while delivering a letter from Reagan. They also discussed America's desire for Iraq to increase it's oil exports and a possible pipeline through Jordan. Rummy made a second visit to Iraq on March 29, 1984, the day the U.N. published a report about the use of mustard gas and Tabun Nerve gas by Iraq against Iranian soldiers.

Fast forward to Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It was his betrayal of American conservatives and the first Bush president that ended the cozy, financially rewarding relationship between Saddam's Iraq and the USA - not the genocide against hundreds of thousands of Kurds and 4,049 of their villages - not the genocide against the Iraqi Shiites.

Fast forward to 2001. Perhaps a few of you recall that within hours of the 9/11 attacks by a gang of rogue Saudi Arabian terrorists, Donald Rumsfeld was running around like a chickenhawk with his head cut off demanding his aids gather the "best info fast - judge whether good enough to hit S.H. at same time - Go massive- sweep it all up - things related and not." NeoCon wingnut Rumsfeld saw the attack on 9/11 as the perfect excuse for the invasion of Iraq which he, along with long-time political colleague Dick Cheney, and the NeoConservatives of PNAC, had been planning for years. Bushes and NeoConservatives are noted not only their love of power and money but for their love of vengeance.

Today, November 6, 2006 Saddam Hussein is facing the death penality and is being used by the Bush regime to inspire those who still believe that Saddam Hussein attacked New York on 9/11 - to vote for more of the same.

Today, the men and women who serve in America's military have let the Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld know that they have ZERO confidence in his dirty, mismanaged, deadly leadership. Donald Rumsfeld, you've killed too many! The American people and the Army Times want you to go!

Fast forward to election day tomorrow and VOTE!
Vote the greedy, dirty trick playing GOP OUT !
A Vote AGAINST the GOP is a Vote for America

PEACE.........Kitchen Window Woman..................