Free Saddam Hussein!

The Bush administration is trying to rig an "Iraqi trial" of that country's legitimate head of state, President Saddam Hussein. All who want a just end to the aggression against Iraq should oppose this farce.

There were no "weapons of mass destruction" found in Iraq. The imperialists have nothing on Saddam. In point of law that's all there is to it. But we are dealing with imperialists, not the law. We must look into their schemes.

About fifty U.S. lawyers have been assembled to be part of the U.S. occupation authority. They will try to fob off a "case" against President Hussein as an Iraqi effort. This outfit will be called the Regime Crimes Adviser's Office. The real regime crimes here are exclusively those of the Bush administration.

The front man in Iraq is Salem Chalabi, nephew of Achmed Chalabi, the embezzler and con man who is a prominent member of the puppet Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, a product of Yale and Northwestern University Law School, says he welcomes the U.S. role but "no one should misunderstand that this will be an Iraqi process with decisions by Iraqis." (New York Times, 7 March 2004, "U.S. Team Is Sent to Develop Case in Hussein Trial")

The article lets the cat out of the bag when it quotes a pro-imperialist Egyptian lawyer who says, "With no weapons of mass destruction to be found, the next best thing is to show how bad Saddam was." To hide their violation of all international law the imperialists expect to use a legal procedure! This is part of the larger scheme to set up a puppet government to assist the occupation.

These swindles will deceive no one in Iraq. The patriotic forces prove every day by their deeds that they will not tolerate miserable charades. In the United States, however, there is a vulnerability of the people's forces to these con games. There are several causes.

For one thing, imperialist ideas have wide influence in the antiwar movement. There is intense ruling class division over the occupation. A large sector of the imperialists did not want the occupation because of its risks.

Since there is an antiwar faction of the ruling class, there must necessarily be a pro-imperialist wing of the antiwar movement. The fake "antiwar" but really pro-imperialist British journalist Robert Fisk is an example. If he follows form he will promote this fraud at the top of his lungs.

Such influences have prevented the antiwar movement from understanding the war on the Iraqi side. "War for oil" describes the imperialist side, not that of Iraq. The failure to understand the war from both sides is a profound weakness that the antiwar movement must sooner or later remedy.

For Iraq the war from the outset in 1990 has been for sovereignty, for its right to develop outside the system of imperialist domination. The immediate cause of the war was the political-diplomatic campaign for Arab unity against U.S.-Israeli domination conducted in the spring of 1990 by President Hussein. The U.S. imperialists and the ruling Sabah family of Kuwait rigged up the Kuwait crisis in response.

Through everything President Hussein has defended the sovereignty of his country. For that reason and no other the imperialists have demonized him. Saddam Hussein must always be seen in the context of the great struggle he has waged against imperialism. Otherwise the United States-Iraq war is incomprehensible.

The essential thing is to insist on immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq. Occupation troops are on a permanent rampage. They raid homes and communities. They abduct whomever they wish. Their objective is to suppress the armed resistance of the people.

The people's armed resistance is just. The people's armed resistance is heroic. There can be no democracy or justice in Iraq until the occupiers are gone.

The invader and his rabble of collaborators have neither justification nor right to use violence against anyone in Iraq, not even against the people’s armed resistance. They have neither justification nor right to hold in custody or prosecute any patriotic person. That especially includes President Hussein.

The people of Iraq live today in a jungle of lawlessness forced on them by imperialism. Any imperialist "trial" of President Hussein will only deepen this condition. Only the people’s forces of resistance can end the lawlessness of the occupation.

The people of the United States must come to the aid of the people of Iraq. We must do so for our own sake because the perpetrators of lawlessness, the U.S. imperialists, are just as much a threat to us. The difference is only a matter of timing. We must free our minds of imperialist pollution and demand justice.

Free Saddam Hussein!

Withdraw all foreign troops from Iraq immediately and unconditionally!

Victory to Iraq!

Down with imperialism!



-Arthur Henson, March, 2004




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"You're a Dumbass."

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Free Saddam Hussein's double; the one who isn't living the life of Riley on the French Riveria, clinking glasses with Ossama and eyeing topless french women.

The mass murder allegations are bogus.

Before the invasion, Saddam was accused of mass murdering 300,000 whose bodies were found in mass graves.

In October 2003, Tony Blair announced that he had killed 400,000 people.

By April-May 2004, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly raised the number to 1 million.

IN June 2004, a Republican mouthpiece name Steve Moore on the kim Seraphim show (790 KABC) said it was 1.5 million.

As the 2004 presidential election approached, the number of purported mass murder victims increased. How high would it go? Well it never hit 6 million. That would have been anti-Semitism to go that high! The Jewish Holocaust entrepreuners have that number locked up.

Who was the first person to "gas the Kurds?" Well, it was Winston Churchill in the 1920's when the British Empire controlled that part of the world.

The mass murder allegations are bogus.

This man is the victim of bogus allegations in a trumpted up, bogus proceeding.

Free Sadaam Hussein.

No more wars for Israel!

That's odd. The link doesn't work anymore.

Well said, BA.

The idea that Saddam should be freed is exactly why I always tell my wife that Leftists share precisely the same mindset as pathological criminals....

1) The only crimes that are ever committed are committed by US authorities and military personnel.

2) NOBODY must EVER be punished for ANYTHING unless that person is a US authority or military person.

3) If someone has been charged with a crime, and they are not a US official or military person, they should be immediately released under the banner of 'human rights, no matter how hideous their crimes and even if those crimes violated the human rights of others.

4) Well established meanings for terms such as 'rights', 'genocide' and 'atrocity' can be changed at will. It is perfectly acceptable to redefine terms at any time for any reason ("That depends on what the definition of 'is' is.")

5) No individual is EVER to be held responsible for their actions. The root cause of any crime is 'his childhood', or 'oppression', etc.... Unless that person is a US official or a military person, in which case the person is ALWAYS responsible.


You get the picture...

Saddam did commit his crimes with the aid and assistance of U.S. authorities and military personnel so maybe he should go down.

This bit here says it all.
"As we now know, Saddam Hussein was working with al-Qaida and was trying to acquire long-range missiles from North Korea and enriched uranium from Niger. "
Thimblewit Coulter can't even keep up with thoroughly discredited propaganda but there are some who do live in a TV tube, unbothered by facts, apparently.

Both are war criminals.
Both of them are CIA puppets
Both robbed their own country
Both ordered torture
Both attacked other nations
Both of them are insane.
They belong together.

I don't usually have anything to do with politics and the sort but the thing that touches a nerve with me have always been genocidal maniacs. And now people have the nerve to defend Saddam Hussein, a man whose crimes rival those of Slobodan Milosevic in their scope, just because they don't like the president. These people don't have their priorities straight. Just because they believe Bush to be a moron, it doesn't justify Saddam's genocidal rampages. What kind of mindset says, "oh, we didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, so let's let Saddam loose to get back to his busy schedule of massacres and bloodbaths." Good job for backing a war criminal/ genocidal maniac because you have a grudge against the president.

Lie the previous person said.
Both are scum.
Neither are worthy of freedom and both belong in a cage.

I think that Obsserver (note the "ss") is an anti-semite. Another person by that name spewed a lot of racism and anti-Jew stuff here before. Normally, he's railing against immigrants and minorities.

I have to agree with what you said about Saddam. And when I say agree, I mean you are a fucking moron. Just because Saddam was the President does not mean that he was benefitting the country. Josef Stalin and Mao ze Dong were not the best leaders for their respective countries. I think that the millions who perished under these genocidal maniacs would agree with the following statement: "If you gas, starve, execute, or otherwise wipe out a significant portion of the population in your country on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, or any factor beyond an individuals control, then you are not a good leader."

The real Saddam has different dental structure than the poor fool in the docks.
Wise up.

you people are so stupid, you really want that mass murdering fuck head let go? you people should all be put away for insanity.....you're all sick bastards.....fuckers

"I think that Obsserver (note the "ss") is an anti-semite. Another person by that name spewed a lot of racism and anti-Jew stuff here before. Normally, he's railing against immigrants and minorities."

And yet his posts stay.

The sheer hypocrisy of la indymedia is staggering. This entire thread is sheer nonsense and no less nationalistic and racist as any post that immediately gets hidden concerning islam.

Yep. Just more silliness here at indy (cough, cough) media.

It's the NAZImedia. Please make a note of it.