I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.