Iraq: Tell-Tell Signs of a Ruthless Tirant

The deteriorating security situation in Iraq can only leave one wondering as to how oppressive and ruthless Saddam Hussein's methods must have been in order to keep the country as "orderly" as he did. If the Americans, investing close to a billion dollars a day in Iraq and under the world's watchful eye, are left with close to 1500 civilian causalties in the month of August as a result of battling the insurgency, then one can only imagine Saddam's methods.

With the world focused on his alleged WMD program and first Gulf war, Saddam must have slaughtered people by the thousends in order to make sure fear permates through the ranks of the insurgency as the prosecution in his now laughable trial alleges. He did not care about human lives because this method worked much better for him and was much cheaper... in money, not human lives. With such a conclusion anyone still having doubts about the ousting of the dictator, should stop thinking of himself as a Human Rights advocate.