Saddam Hussain

Note that these Saddamists and terrorist represent perhaps half of the Sunnis, who are about 20% of the Iraqi population. Rumsfeld is saying they are still strong enough to defeat the other 90% of the Iraqi population, including the new goverment with all its US trained troops, the Kurdish militia and the two Shiite militias backed by Iran.

How are we doing with that deck of cards?

Of the 55 most-wanted members of Saddam's regime, 45 have been killed or captured. That's 82%. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the King of Clubs and one of the 10 still at large, has apparently just (3/27/2006) called on Arab leaders to support the insurgency in Iraq and boycott the government.
List of captured. List of captured and not.

Who caught Saddam?

"Our policies in the Middle East fuel Islamic resentment."

Sunni Arabs, dominated by former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, "comprise the core of the insurgency" and continue to provide "funds and guidance across family, tribal, religious and peer-group linesv" Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency told the Senate. Washington Post

2/17/05

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan increased terrorist threat in Britain.

A damning new report by a respected think-tank, international affairs body Chatham House, says there is "no doubt" Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq has created particular difficulties for the UK and states the Iraq situation has "given a boost to the Al-Qaeda network's propaganda, recruitment and fundraising" and created an ideal training area for potential terrorists.
7/18/05 UK

While Saddam Hussein was little threat to the U.S. and easily contained, he was a scourge on his own people and contributed to tension in the Middle East. Removing him was good. Even today, most Iraqis prefer the miserable situation they are in to life under Saddam.

Fugitive Saddam aide's tape aired
From: Reuters From correspondents in Dubai
March 27, 2006
SADDAM Hussein's former lieutenant Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri has called on Arab leaders to support the insurgency in Iraq and boycott the government, in an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera television today.

Al Jazeera identified the voice on the tape as that of Ibrahim, but it was not immediately possible to confirm this.
The speaker urged an Arab summit taking place in Sudan this week to recognise the "Iraqi resistance as the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people" and to "boycott the regime of agents and traitors".

"You should take the necessary decisions to support the Iraqi people and their brave national resistance and its jihad until Iraq is freed," he added.

If the tape is authenticated, it would show that Ibrahim, the most senior member of Saddam's deposed government not to have been killed or captured, is alive. It was not clear when it was recorded.

Al Jazeera aired excerpts from the tape, which it said it received earlier today.

Ibrahim has been credited with a major role in organising the bloody insurgency by Sunni Muslim militants.
But the speaker on the tape condemned attacks on mosques, Shiite holy sites, and churches in Iraq. australian source

ZFacts has regarded Saddam as a tyrant since before the days when Rumsfeld was shaking his hand to sell him an oil pipeline. It was right to work for his removal and could have been right to use force against him. But this was done with an arrogant incompetence which has cost America and Iraq far more than it should have, and, as documented here, it was done by deceiving the American people and, quite possibly, the President.

The US had three military goals and one political goal
"The United States and the coalition partners went into Iraq with a very specific mission and we have been clear about that from the beginning. And some of the key elements of that were to

[1] remove the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein,
[2] discover the weapons of mass destruction that exist and destroy those.
[3] To determine and rid Iraq of the terrorists that’s operating out of that country.

And so there are some very clear defined goals that we have, all leading to [4] creating the environment and the opportunity for a new Iraq government." (bracketed numbers added.) —Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense Whitman Interview

with Al Jazeera, April 22, 2003.

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Hussein, can also
be spelled as
Hussayn or Hussain

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