-- baudmax23@earthlink.net wrote:
Kassem [...] took power in a popularly-backed coup in 1958, [..] starting the process of nationalizing foreign oil companies in Iraq, withdrawing Iraq from the US-initiated right-wing Baghdad Pact (which included another military-run, US-puppet state, i.e., Pakistan) and decriminalizing the Iraqi Communist Party. Despite these actions, and more likely because of them, he was Iraq's most popular leader. He had to go! In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. In 1963, a CIA-organized coup did successfully assassinate Qasim and Saddam's Ba'ath Party came to power for the first time.
So in your version of reality, the Iraqi people were happily enjoying socialism, loving the socialism this benevolent Kassem provided to them and then this evil capitalistic CIA agent, Saddam, took it all away from them. If that is what happened, what is your objection then to him being given to Iraqi people for execution? Why are you calling for him to be released, or to be given to his fellow tyrants who run the Hague court, who certainly will not execute him, probably will not imprison him for very long, and might well exonerate him? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PlYk3rEnQaDH/vg6bQg87i+LKYnWL9B1wqDEvWkg 4OVFXm6Pp/pT/tn37qWgP4Q8Njgd7Uzm3LbUDEesM