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You're joking, right?

"Would you please show me the evidence that indicates Saddam Hussein being a barbarian and a bloody tyrant. (I have heard about it but have not seen it)"

Are you serious? Have you been hiding under a rock, or are you really this ignorant?

There's so much evidence of Saddam's bloody, tyranical rule it's ridiculous. Just go and do a little research on the Internet, for heaven's sakes.

Where could one possibly start with the long, barbaric history of Saddam Hussein?

Killing thousands of Kurds with chemical weapons?

Attacking Iran? Kuwait? Saudia Arabia? Israel?

Killing his own son-in-laws?

Organizing the public hanging of 9 Jews in Baghdad in 1969?

And check out the report of former UN Human Rights Reporter Max Van der Stoel: in 1997 alone Iraq executed at least 1,500 people for political reasons.

and this is my favorite Saddam story (it so perfectly captures the evil essence of this beast):

"On July 18, 1979, he invited all the members of the Revolutionary Command Council and hundreds of other party leaders to a conference hall in Baghdad. He had a video camera running in the back of the hall to record the event for posterity. Wearing his military uniform, he walked slowly to the lectern and stood behind two microphones, gesturing with a big cigar. His body and broad face seemed weighted down with sadness. There had been a betrayal, he said. A Syrian plot. There were traitors among them. Then Saddam took a seat, and Muhyi Abd al-Hussein Mashhadi, the secretary-general of the Command Council, appeared from behind a curtain to confess his own involvement in the putsch. He had been secretly arrested and tortured days before; now he spilled out dates, times, and places where the plotters had met. Then he started naming names. As he fingered members of the audience one by one, armed guards grabbed the accused and escorted them from the hall. When one man shouted that he was innocent, Saddam shouted back, "Itla! Itla!"—"Get out! Get out!" (Weeks later, after secret trials, Saddam had the mouths of the accused taped shut so that they could utter no troublesome last words before their firing squads.) When all of the sixty "traitors" had been removed, Saddam again took the podium and wiped tears from his eyes as he repeated the names of those who had betrayed him. Some in the audience, too, were crying—perhaps out of fear. This chilling performance had the desired effect. Everyone in the hall now understood exactly how things would work in Iraq from that day forward. The audience rose and began clapping, first in small groups and finally as one. The session ended with cheers and laughter. The remaining "leaders"—about 300 in all—left the hall shaken, grateful to have avoided the fate of their colleagues, and certain that one man now controlled the destiny of their entire nation. Videotapes of the purge were circulated throughout the country."

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