It's bad enough when you kill innocent people outside your country (and Saddam has been blamed with more than a million), but when you turn on your own countrymen (and women), you're even suckier.Many dictators have done this throughout history, like Joesph Stalin, but I'll pick Saddam to represent the lot of them.
A friend of mine says that Saddam shouldn't be considered on this list, saying he was backed by the US government, but I disagree. I don't believe that our government had a role in the murders he committed against his own citizens or his own son-in-law.
I am not a war monger by any stretch of the imagination and I don't tend to beat the drum for the current administration for the war in Iraq -- but one thing is certain, Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power. The atrocities he caused in the Middle East are reason alone for him to be included on this list, but like I said, when someone is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of his own people, it's beyond evil.
As I tick off the remaining people on this list, they are pretty much interchangeable, since they have all tried to turn the world into a living hell, but the reason I'm writing about Saddam today is that I just came across this quote in my "Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader" (The Bathroom Reader is a great series of books with quick facts on anything and everything):
"I am sad because my people are in bondage. If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage." -- Saddam said that when he was speaking with US interrogators, speaking of the occupation of Iraq by the US.
Yeah, I guess it is a lot easier to shake the dew off your lilly or take a crap when you know you're people are dying, not "in bondage."
I just wish the US would have offed Saddam 15 years earlier when we had the chance, so that we could have saved more lives.
RoadRage
