Why didn’t Arabs remove Saddam? [Archives:2003/631/Letters to the Editor]
Pattie Peterson
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I cannot believe all of the criticism of the American soldiers and Bush. It's one thing after another. I didn't like what his father did in 1991 and didn't even know what happened back then until now. Maybe he's trying to right the wrongs of his father. A lot of innocent people have died but why does everyone say that the Americans did it? Saddam had his “gang” shoot people that didn't want to defend him or his regime. He sent his regime to cut out some guys tongue and let them bleed to death in the middle of the street. It is unbelievable what these people have done to the innocent people of Iraq. Why did the other Arab countries sit and watch and do nothing? Saddam and his “police” have used innocent people: men, women and children and put them in front of U.S. armed forces to protect his regime. They know that this bothers the average American person and soldier. What a coward. He's like a bully. Use the helpless, scared out of their wits, innocent people, to create a situation in which the soldier has to decide to either take a chance and fire hoping no one innocent in this mess is hurt or fire and kill the enemy. Why did the rest of the Arab world let Saddam get away with his brutality and sick torture methods of those poor innocent people? I hate politics and I always have. I do know how I feel and what I think and thank God I can express it here in the United States. I know that most of the soldiers want to help the Iraqi people and make their lives better, but you would think that we are there to get something else. We didn't take Kuwait's oil. Did we? Our soldiers don't put innocent people in front on the line to get what they want. Do they? Saddam is a sick individual and he thinks he is next to God or is one of his prophets? Please, I have heard from Iraqi people and war is better than the life they were living. Never knowing when, in the middle of the night Saddam's secret police was going to come and get a family member to take him away forever for some stupid reason and torture him to death or kill him and put him out of his misery for what? Because they're not stupid and they know he is a sick person and they love to torture people?
At least now they know that “God willing” they have a chance at another way of life. The one that these poor people had before was no life at all.
Dear Pattie,
We in turn would like to also ask why the United States supported Saddam for so many years and in fact encouraged him to do all that you say he did and discouraged anyone here from trying to “reform” Saddam.
Thank you fro your interest in the YT.
)The Editors
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