Quasi ... stop talking and do a lot more reading and listening.

Saddam was not torturing his people in mass the way he was accused.

The Sunni and Shia groups that are currently fighting the civil war, that the US military is trying to referee in Iraq, were the ones responsible for the vast majority of the disappearances of people in Iraq during Saddam's rule.

A clue to this fact is that this practice of abducting 50 to 100 people and taking them away and killing them is still going on with the US military standing there with guns. The US military is not making a dent in stopping the violence between these waring groups.

The worst part of Saddam's recent conviction is that he was convicted ex post facto. He was convicted with new iraqi laws that did not apply to actions in 1988 when saddam was accused of mass killings. The law in Iraq at that time allowed these actions.

The world court was the only court that has jurisdiction to try Saddam. The same court that was trying Milosevic. But the US knew Saddam would not be found guilty in that court. They would not be prejudiced like the shia and kurd judges on the Iraqi court.

The real reason the Bush administration went into Iraq was multifold.

1) Baby Bush could avenge the death threat on his father's life.

2) Cheney convinced Bush that letting KBR (Halliburton) get sole source contracts in the billions to provide overpriced services and products to Iraq at the expense of the american taxpayer that the american economy would pick up and line his friends pockets. What a scam!

3) The last major reason is that US military domination of Iraq would intimidate Iran from pursuing nuclear energy and subsequently maybe nuclear weapons in 30 years.

What a puny plan.

Every one of these reasons shows a lack of experience that leads to disastrous results for the world as well as the US in the future.

Saddam was never a threat according CIA, DIA analysts.

Only to Cheney and "Yes man" George Tennet was Saddam a threat. A lie.

Funny how the same assholes that told LBJ to lie about Vietnam are the same assholes getting W to lie about Iraq. It's all they know how to do.