Did Anyone See the CBC News Last Night on C-Span Re Hussein?

[Justice]

The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) news on C-Span covered the capture of Hussein. In reviewing Hussein's rise to power and history, they showed the infamous clip of Rumsfield meeting with Hussein and then talked about our support of him in the 80s.

The piece basically showed Hussein as a fraud and a brutal guy who gassed the Kurds and the Iranians - but showed the US as being in bed with him during his periods of gassing (and supplying him with some of the weapons to do so).

All in all not very flattering of the US.

[greyl]

1. I didn't see that but

I offer the Rumsfeld/Saddam video at my website.

Now, your statement that that episode isn't flattering to the US, I could pick some nits with. (probably not your intention, I'm guessing:))

It's definitely not flattering to certain admins and entities that have had power in the US, but I don't see it as anti-US.

(but still, I'm glad the CBC had that editorial angle on it)

[Justice]

3. Correct

I agree that it is not all of us, but only those admins/entities that had power. Unfortunately since those same people are in power now in the US - the foreign preception is that it is the US.

It also highlights the fact that foreign countries and people look at our country as a whole and lump the good and bad together. I suppose they think if Bush in in office (and god forbid is reelected) then that is what we want.

The US media does such a good job suppressing any dissenting views that other countries may not actually know much about the dissenting views

I read Michael Moore's comments after posting this. They are very much in line with the portrayal by the CBC.

[AG78]

2. But they're Canadian

Since when does their opinion(based on fact) matter?

While Hussein was a horrible human being, he's been a pawn since he came into power. We support him against Iran. We do absolutely nothing when kills everybody north and south of him(except 15 years later, or so we say; although it was about WMD, I think). We attack him after he attacks Kuwait. Although there is some question about whether we allowed him to go in and then attacked him. Now we take his regime down when it's in our interests to do so. The people of Iraq have been screwed in the whole game. The American people get screwed. This whole adventure was never about Saddam. The capture will make us all feel better, or at least that's the way it's made to be seen. We all forget our troubles, and the troubles of the Iraqi people. Hey, the old man was caught, from here on out it's easy.

We don't negotiate with terrorists. Except that we have, do, and will.

It's just another move in the global chess game.

But this whole thing won't do anything but divide people more. It's just another issue that people can disagree on. We have so many, you lose count. Divided we stand, united we fall.

[cthrumatrix]

4. I guess we fall with shrub....he's the "master divider"...the sheep vs.

those that can see through the BS and want back thier govt.

[Cheswick2.0]

5. Didn't Cheney do business with him in the 90s?

I know they did business with him in the 90s, however once bush1 left office, didn't cheney open an offshore subsidiary and deal with Saddam during the time we had sanctions against Iraq?

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Halliburton/Cheney sold equipment to Saddam in 1999!

$82,000,000.00 worth is what I've read! Was Halliburton/Cheney with us or against us then? The UN sanctions were in place, but Cheney still sold the equipment contrary to international law! Any money Saddam was able to make on the oil Iraq extracted by the use of the Halliburton oilfield equipment must have funded Terra! Saddam was paying terrorists cash rewards to murder women and children in Israel!

Cash always trumps patriotism in Bushco's little world, it has since the 1930s!

[Hubert Flottz]

7. RE: Halliburton/Cheney

Reality Bites



SNIP> Halliburton was among more than a dozen American firms that supplied Iraq's petroleum industry with spare parts and retooled its oil rigs when U.N. sanctions were eased in 1998. Cheney's company utilized subsidiaries in France, Italy, Germany, and Austria so as not to draw undue attention to controversial business arrangements that might embarrass Washington and jeopardize lucrative ties to Iraq, which will pump $24 billion of petrol under the U.N.-administered oil-for-food program this year. Assisted by Halliburton, Hussein's government will earn another $1 billion by illegally exporting oil through black-market channels.

http://www.sfbg.com/reality/04.html