The Tragi-Comedy Of Saddam Hussein's Trial
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Saddam's Trial (2006): Saddam Hussein's trial has been almost darkly comical, and there has been much theatre outside the courtroom.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein has often appeared more like a farce. Instead of bringing closure and healing to his people, it seems to be driving Iraqis further apart.
In the Sunni area of Azamiya, everyone thinks the trial is a joke. There s nothing legal about this trial. There s no legitimacy. The first judge resigned after repeated criticism that he was too soft, the defence team boycotted court after being manhandled and two lawyers have been murdered. Even the British lawyer who trained the judges have concerns about whether the trial is fair.
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This was nothing more than a show trial. The outcome was decided from the start.
yeah, good
Just like the Nuremberg trials. Hitler and Sadam were evil dictators, of course the outcome was decided from the start. Duh....
@@goatlandia8457 actually at Nuremberg they had fair trials. Some nazis get favorable terms other were treated very hard... The Nuremberg trials were not perfect but were not a show.
@@Chepicoro I should have clarified, both were a show because both were guilty before standing trial. The trial was simply a show.
Should be Bush on trial.
British dude almost busted out laughing when he was saying that he think they could have a fair trial lol
He said that shit when I was reading it
@@gdn7 xD same haha
exactly.
This guys laughing his ass off
Yeah lol
"Socks are socks, dont waste money"
- Sadam Hussain.
Best advice I've heard.
Have you wore wool socks tho?
@Meow Meow I can tell you have great passion for socks, a sock connoisseur perhaps.
@2nd classCitizen why? They make great viruses, i’m sure socks are easy for them
@chindoo lol. Go eat a tinfoil hat
@chindoo That sucked hard, stick to being a sheep
maddening that bush will never have to face a trial like this
Bush didn't massacre americans
But the entirety of the us and nato will answer for it someday. I am sure what goes around comes back around we are starting to see signs of it, it'll all be good, happy, peaceful and just then.the world will adapt as evil withers away second after second,day after day,generation after generation.
@jeegupopli1871
Okay, Makarov😂
@@jeegupopli1871 Lockheed and Boeing say otherwise..
There should be quite a few politicians in America on trial right now.
Obligatory edit: WOW! OMG! SO MANY LIKES!! THANKS GUYS!!!
Is that what I'm supposed to do now?
And that's Donald J. Trump. May the judicial system strike him with no mercy.
@@GangBlud stfu lol
@@GangBlud not Trump, but Obama and Bush definitely should
All
Nuke dc
“A new Iraq. An Iraq that believes in human rights.” 😂🤣😆🤣😂🤣 yo where is this Iraq?
Im iraqi mate
@Saddam Hussein yeah from Baghdad here
@Saddam Hussein nah its actually pretty damn good rn
@Saddam Hussein well i agree with you but it's actually really rare to find one
How is uday doing?
As someone that served in the American military, I've met many of civilians and service members across the political spectrum that have pretty strong opposition to the fact that we invaded Iraq on the premises of weapons of mass destruction and overthrowing a dictator. The guy and his Entourage were definite bastards, however the entire region clearly became unstable when his regime was removed from power. Far more death, tragedy, and Carnage has occurred after our own government's "regime change" wars. There is so much more evidence to prove that the Middle East was better off with Saddam in power.
We should not be meddling around in worldly affairs that have absolutely nothing to do with us. Nor should we have this expectation that our culture and laws need to be shared by everyone on the planet. Our government and the major media corporations refuse to see it that way, but most Americans are also too blind and lazy to even do anything about it.
Amen..
perfectly articulated sir.
Das heißt also, dass ihr Amerikaner auf gut deutsch eine richtig große scheiße gebaut habt
because of personal and group interests, I do not insult the American people but the government regime that follows the will of the group.
@@AronJonson my apologies, i only know a few words in german ! So i do not know what you say :)
the reason why the people hated on him and celebrated after his death and now they want him back is obviously because *they did not know what was coming after him*
Hell he even said that if he dies the rest of the middle East dies with him! Even Syria was once ah proud Nation
@@olechristianhenne6583 he was fucking killing the Middle East get over ur selves😭 u guys would literally sell ur soul just to be part of a conspiracy🤦🏾♂️
@@olechristianhenne6583 Well, you can research the things that Saddam did to protect the Arabs and his assistance to some countries by canceling debts and giving free oil, and you will learn that Saddam was the security policeman for the Middle East.
"An Iraq that believes in human rights, a new Iraq, for new Iraqis." - and years later how that turned out to be very untrue indeed..
May the people of the Middle-East see better days.
In my opinion, Saddam had to go. Sure, we should have absolutely thought more about what we would do after we got rid of him, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was insane, a tyrant, a brute, and a murderer. I think Iraq now has done better and is actually somewhat stable which is good as otherwise the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis murdered by terrorists of al qaeda, the thousands of US troops dead, the many thousands of ISF dead, will have died for nothing
If its such a new iraq why are they running west out there
@@43sumfilmz1 yoo when was the last time you went to Iraq? Its quite fortune, wouldn't you agree, that you were born in your 'safe' and 'free' country? Tell me, how do you decide between Coca Cola and Pepsi? I think if someone wants your opinion, they will ask for it. Thanks.
@@shinobi9154 you’re a weeaboo pretending to have grown up in a struggle such as Iraq to try to “prove” your dumbass point as if it makes saddam any less of an awful person
@@43sumfilmz1 nope. First Saddam absolutely hated religious extremists. ISIS emerged out of the power vacuum. Worst of all, Iraq is basically an extension of Iran. But Iran did help us battle ISIS.
“saddam didnt get a fair trial” muammar ghaddafi didnt even get a trial he mentioned the gold standard nd they killed him immediately now libyas a trafficking hub😂😂
RIP the Colonel, a great man.
That’s all the truth!
More people should read this comment
Although fuck him any way
redpilled (and based)
Just remember folks, despite what you think of this guy. After his death a whole bunch of other uglies arised from the region.
It's because the local people allow it.
The poor people was victim of iran insurgents and the creation of ISIS eventually because of it. ISIS was a product of other subgroups created by iran, Al Quaida and even israel coming together to form isis, because the other groups wasnt extreme enough. Can u imagine? Many of them didnt find Al Quaida savage enough to be productive for real change
Twan van der Donk the local people? You idiot its because the deep state installed the folks
@@AbuGoldstein Power always comes from people, in Europe we've had countless civil wars to get anywhere close to where we are. So yeah, if locals don't pick up arms and fight back, then they are virtually allowing it, sorry to say.
@@twanvanderdonk2504 Its a little different situation and time in middle east right now than any civil war Europe has ever seen. Many of these factions, some of which are deemed "terrorist factions", are the people trying to "fight back" on their own terms. I mean would you just start yet another faction and start the real righteous fight?
This whole era taught me that,sometimes, its more peaceful to just let a dictator be rather than go kicking a beehive.
Agreed. Eventually dictatorship will die. Iran is rising up and rightfully so. We need the people to decide their government not foreign powers with no understanding of the culture and turbulence they would bring to a nation
it was all about oil
@@fwef7445 what oil... America went into debt trying to free Iraq, and we didn't get cheaper oil prices.... so please find a better excuse or don't sound stupid.
@@fin7976 Iran is only rising up because globohomo Americans are working on another social coop. Nothing new under the sun.
@kızgın tosbağa creap
All these years later and Iraq appears worse off without Saddam.
That’s an understatement 🤣
Why haven’t you nuked the bully called the USA yet
@@TamimLB They can't because USA dominates LAND, SEA, SKY AND SPACE. GLORY TO USA! GLORY TO AMERICA!
@@TamimLB 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
People fail to understand that different regions in the world differ among their culture and people. “Democracy” doesn’t work everywhere...or anywhere. The only way to keep Iraq whole was with an iron fist.
This had CIA written all over it
If it wasn’t for the CIA Saddam Hussein never would have risen to power in the first place.
@Sc0ut op unfortunately, American foreign policy is ass. Because of that we will always have enemies in the Middle East. You’d think we would have learned with:
1. Jalaluddin Haqqani was given cash directly from the CIA. He was the leader of the Haqqani Network an Afghani Anti United States insurgent group.
2. People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
3. The Peshawar Seven and an anti United States alliance of seven independent groups. Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
4. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Pakistani Intelligence group the US used to arm and funnel money through that went to mujahedin.
5. The Baathist Party, which the CIA helped to overthrow the Iraqi government which is how Saddam Hussein rose to power in the first place.
6. Taliban Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
7. Al-Qaeda Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
8. Hezbollah Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
9. People’s Defense Forces (YPG) Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
10. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
11. Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Armed, trained, funded and advised by the United States government.
12. Abu Azrael a leader in the Kataib al-Imam Ali, an Iraqi Shi'a militia group of the Popular Mobilization Forces. His group was initially trained by Hezbollah. He decided to be put the gun and become a soldier about 17 years ago. His main enemy being the UNITED STATES. He still says he’s a jihadist. The United States over looks that because he’s Shia. Which Isis is jihadist group but they’re Sunni.
That’s not even all groups by any stretch of the imagination or even the majority. How can you win a war against an enemy that you’re arming, training and funding? Most of these groups are also supported by Iran and Hezbollah. Makes absolutely no sense. Treason.
People also think we entered this region for oil, which is only half of the reason. This is the number one opium producing region in the world. No surprise some of the very first things we did was fund the rebuilding, physically help with the rebuilding and even having our boots on the group guarding poppy farms which these jihadist groups destroyed. Which of course what is opium derived from? Poppies and of course the other opiates from heroin to pain pills is derived from opium. No surprise the streets in the United States were flooded with opiates and that there was an “epidemic” of opiate addiction. Much like what happened with the coke in the 80s.
We never should have gotten involved in the Middle East. The reason we started was because we fear Soviet influence in that region. All these groups at one point or another we’re considering to be “freedom fighters” and we funded, trained, armed and advised them because we assumed we could get them to fight a proxy war against the soviets. Regardless of our involvement they would have fought soviets for the same reason they fight us. The interests/priorities and values of that region don’t line up with ANY group that isn’t muslim. Even then they war amongst each other and it’s been that constant conflict since the conception of Islam going on 1500 years ago.
The Sunni and Shia fight fight and kill each other then you have those who follow Wahhabism, Sufism and Quranism, Alawis, Zaidiyyah, Khawarij, Maliki, Salafi, Ahmadiyyah which aren’t even all the sects of Islam. They kill Christians even in that region whether they Practice Catholicism, Orthodox, Protestantism or Coptic or any denomination these sects, same with those who practice Judaism regardless of they’re Haredi, Orthodox, Reformed or Messianic and they even persecute people like the Yazidi and really all Kurds as a whole.
This will never stop. I. Their spiritual beliefs and practices is the issue Coexistence is not truly taught and moderate Islam is a western created concept that only exists in the minds of westerners. The majority which have never read the Qu’ran once or know any of the what 2700 hadiths and various other traditions? Nothing we can do will help that area. It’s not possible unless the United States is prepared to fall under the banner of Islam.
@kepler galileo maybe 1% of “Christians” follow scripture and the God of the scripture. This is very easy to prove and it’s unfortunate. They place the ecclesiastical laws and traditions created by men over the inspired word and commandments of God. They don’t even follow the easiest commandments to follow.
For example the easiest of commandments “remember the sabbath day and keep it holy” they don’t observe and follow the sabbath they follow the sun day. Which the sabbath and sun day are two different things on two different days. On March 7th in the year 321AD the Roman Emperor Constantine changed the day Christians were to observe the day of rest. He moved it from the 7th day of the week as scripture calls for and he moved it to the 1st day of the week. He called it “sun day” and declared it to be the “venerated day of the sun”
Since March 7th in the year 321AD Christians have kept the tradition of following this venerated day of the sun on the 1st day of the week.
Better yet the Catholic Church has addressed this very openly and for centuries. Their position is simple: anyone who observes the venerated day is the sun on the first of the week not the sabbath on the seventh is acknowledging the Catholic Church as having and being God’s authority on earth. Their logic is also simple. They says this because they ask the question “who else could change the day of the sabbath except for God or one with his authority?” Since Constantine did which The Roman Catholic Church says he had the authority to do. That only means one thing.
Which when you bring this and the facts up to Protestants they rage and say “IT DOESN’T MATTER! THAT DOESN’T APPLY TO ME! I’M NOT CATHOLIC! I DON’T FOLLOW THE POPE HE ISN’T MY GOD” Which is funny and entirely irrelevant as long as they follow false doctrine and traditions that were either entirely fabricated by or borrowed from pagans and incorporated into the faith by the Catholic Church.
@@cvsp3rlxc921 Hezbollah wasn't trained or funded by the United States and there's a difference between Jihadists. The origins of Hezbollah go back to 1982 were it began to form as a movement and it wouldn't be until 1985 that they are fully formed and ready to declare themselves. Hezbollah during it's "embryo phase" was cooperating with Leftist groups in Lebanon who are members of JAMMOUL "The Lebanese National Resistance Fronts" and some of Hezbollah's early operations were claimed by them. Hezbollah wasn't the organisation responsible for bombing the American embassy and the USMC and French Paratroopers barracks in 1983 but they weren't sad about it (and if it wasn't Hezbollah or IJO who did it then maybe some socialist group would have done it because at that point the American "Peacekeepers" started picking sides in the civil war by bombing socialist forces in Mount Lebanon).
So Hezbollah was never trained by the United States and the United States spent the early 2000s trying to intimidate the Lebanese President (who's a Maronite Christian and at that time was Emile Lahoud) to disarm Hezbollah and strike them but he'd respond with "they're our George Washington and their faces should be printed on the Lebanese pound"
Now to Jihad. Jihad means to strive and it's not only armed,it's whatever a Muslim man or woman or child do to help their community,their society,their country for example a teacher who's talking about saving the.environment is a Jihadist in that sense. Armed Jihad is to deter and invader and protect Muslims against persecution and genocide. Jihad has rules and those are of Islamic Warfare which forbid in religion most if not all the things that ISIS and Al Qaeda do. Hezbollah follow these rules and Hezbollah condemns attacks such as 9/11 or even the recent attacks in France and says that those actions disrespect Islam just like the cartoons.
So you have 2 perspective of Jihad and many Sunnis stand by the "strive for the better and defend the land and the population" perspective while people who support ISIS and co are called Takfiris (those who call others as Kafirs or infidels).
Also The USA doesn't turn a blind eye on shia Muslims at all,they tried everything to disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon and they still do while in Iraq they killed Qassim Suleimani and Abou Mahdi al Muhandis who are the duo that orchestrated the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and the breaking of it's military structure there and in general.
Those are different from Al Qaeda,Taliban and so on while Saddam's government was supported by the west in order to contain Iran,knowing full well it will destroy Iraq as well which is also a win considering they also didn't want a strong Saddamist Iraq.
American policy is basically funding something that will come around and bite them then having to get rid off it before doing the same thing again while those groups formed without American help would be diplomatically attacked by America. Hezbollah is a political party in Lebanon and is adored by many Lebanese from Shia to Sunnis to Christians,they fought Al Qaeda and ISIS with the Syrian and Lebanese armies all while condemning terrorist attacks on the west. They don't seem like terrorists to me and although they used suicide attacks,it was against military targets during Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. Hezbollah is only considered terrorist because they are against Israel and against American imperialism in the region so please recheck that bit of information you have since the USA has 0 advantage in funding Hezbollah at all especially when they had the Gemayel brothers as presidents back in the 80s
@@manwhich8916 They sure like cutting heads off.
Remember when the U.S backed this guy up and provided him with weapons to attack his brothers and then turned on him.
@Genghis Khan then you have Gaddafi wanting to start up an independent African currency backed by gold...
We all know what happened to him.
But of course these matters are often more complex then we realize.
The world sways back and forth seeking balance- Totalitarianism / liberalism.
We'd find it if it wasn't for a select group who wish to do anything to maintain their power and hegemony over their respective regions
@Genghis Khan how's that not clear cut? He was in charge of his country's resources.
@Herbert Cukurs zionism is just a scapegoat. Money has no religion, it controls religion.
Prophets profits
Worship warships
@Herbert Cukurs Judaism is in its origin literally a scapegoat religion, and zionist. And idk what you're talking about printing money. What money? $10Million a day from the US to Israel to defend illegal colonist settlements, or Prescott Bush building the nazi wealth that also manufactured consent for the zionist movement? Do you know how capitalism works? Money, like pleb consent, is manufactured in service of elites.
@@moodist1er this is dangerous antisemitism
"If your allied with America you already lost" - Saddam Hussein
i mean israel’s doing pretty good for a US ally
Europe would like to disagree
@@howdyl6456 Europe is retarded and getting tricked by the US
@@FF-ch9nr Coz the US is a satellite state of Israel.
@@howdyl6456 it means if you're a colonizing asshole with no morals then you win with america backing you
The judges were trained by the British. How do you train a judge.? I suppose only the British can give you a crash course on justice.
it worked
@@KlingonGamerYT Really?.
Tom B You're a dumbass
That’s been debunked but not in the way you’d think. They were trained by I(srae)is living in Britain, more than likely working for their home country. The British didn’t benefit from the removal of Saddam, they did.
No justice in English courts!😂
Lol they assassinated his lawyers, started treating Sunnis like shit, so Sadams old guard all just joined ISIS. Good job, guys
Wrong
@@313x.55 It's been well documented that many of Husseins officers joined ISIS but ok
@@elementz301 sunnis arent being treated like shit
Mansour Zayer, lives in Tehran, Iran
I was born in a small Kurdish town in a Sunni community and Im currently living in Tehran. Althogh I'm now an atheist, I used to have some faith. In school we had to read the same islamic book as Shia. Although they sound similar, they have very big differences. So we were pretty familiar with everything about Shia. My senior year in high school, we had a teacher for religious studies who was very radical and would sometimes even allude to killing Shias like any other enemy of Islam. But other teachers were ok. Overall we Sunnis (by birth) were ok about Shia guys and I used to think being Sunni to a Shia as ok too, untill I went to university. In university I saw some vulgar reactions to being Sunni. Some guys would ask me if I was Sunni in a tone similar to asking someone if they are allien. Some of my Shia friends told me stories of how their highschool religious teachers spreaded hatred towards Sunnis and their holly figures. By law, a Sunni can't become president in Iran. To tell you my opinion, the government is fond of separation between people. Divide and conquer. But people are less engaged in religious conflicts
@Bekhan hey bud... That wasn't me saying that. That was a life story from a guy named Mansour zayer
If the pajamas don't fit you must acquit.
Jajajajajaj the BEST comment ive heard
Epic
My hat's off to you sir.Brilliant.
That rhymes
Saddam should've hired Johnnie Cochran
FFS... I was 21 in 2006. Footage from the 1980s back then always looked exactly like this - I never thought mid-2000s would feel so mid 80s.
I was 12
yES TEchnology advanced very fast
I remember Razr phones and the cameras were like 120p now we got 4k on phones
Can we have this trial for Tony Blair?
It's coming believe me
And his mate bush
and Hilary Clinton
You can dream about it.
Adolf Bush Jr.
He wasn't perfect, but Iraq was better off with him in power than the mess following the invasion.
Dude launched chemical warheads at his own population killing hundreds of thousands over the years. What the fuck are you talking about?
Atleast iraq wouldnt have been such a gigantic shitshow it is right now
@Creepy Hair Sniffer do They? Isis is still in Iraq and as long as there is islamic radicalism, there is no develooment
@@justinfocker I don't like what he did to the Kurds, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. I'm not pro Saddam, but the invasion caused more death and destruction to the Iraqi people than Saddam would have, if he lived 20 years. He wasn't causing much trouble after the first gulf war. We could have kept him in check using other means.
There were no weapons of mass destruction. We shouldn't have invaded that country in 2003.
@@justinfocker that should tell.you how bad things gotten after Saddam if they where that bad and they got worse ....the fuck
Who else got this as a recommendation? 4 years later, thanks YT!
I feel like the elections has caused the algorithm to push political stuff
noone cares
*"I think that they have a structure which is capable of delivering a fair trial and I truly believe these judges are determined to deliver a fair trial 😆😂😂"*
Saddam: Oil for gold not dollars.
America: We'll take your gold and force you to pay in dollars.
Very wrong no one could take anything of sadam husain
Israel usa - CAT - MOUSE. Was kicked by a lion (:
100% why they killed him the west had no gold
That's gaddafi saddam wanted to sell oil for euros
pbs.twimg.com/media/GJNs24yXQAAB54D?format=jpg&name=medium
6:40 the people trying to stay in frame got me cracking up
🤣
Uncle creeping in from the right 😂😂
Clearly not a fair trial.
Dude wants Geneva conventions to cover him, but doesnt want them to apply to the shit he pulled on his people
@@jimlthor Pleae fuck off with your propaganda. Saddam could do in 2 years what the West couldn't do for 20 years. Look at Iraq, look at the middle East, fuck off buddy.
@@boobyhill6921 you say that while spreading pro Saddam propaganda, so fuck off buddy.
Reap what you sow
Booby Hill lol he committed some of the worst crimes against humanity ever. Please shut up and stop swallowing his loads for breakfast
It's easy for people to judge the Iraqis who conducted this trial negatively. Yes, legally speaking, it was a terrible example of a trial. However, given what he did to his citizens for all those years, i am inclined to let Iraqis judge their own actions.
Only Iraqis who lived under Hussain can really understand this situation fully. It's obviously one in which they wanted cathartic vengeance. I'm not going to judge it.
im iraqi, dont speak for us.
+ خرا عليك وعلى الديمقراطية المزيفة الي تدعوها يا اولاد القذرة
We did worse things to their citizens to take their oil
We ran this trial
What did he do to his citizens?
@@ozmondone time he got boo’d during a speech and he had the village massacred.
He used chemical weapons that killed thousands of Kurdish civilians. He started a massive war with Iran that left hundreds of thousands dead without a single thing to be gained in the outcome, and then did the same thing in the 90s. He consistently left the majority of his people bereft. And his sons, particularly Uday were notoriously cruel and loved to flaunt it wherever they went to the people around them.@@ozmond
“Arabic international laws”
>Jamal Khashoggi laughs in spirit
I mean international laws are followed only when it is convenient... Welcome to Earth.
@@hydragons Yep!
Jamal who?
@@xmarksthespot6699 and that was Carl, our international affairs specialist. Cheers Carl!
see.. they made alot of lies about saddam but not for the saudis.. its all about western benefits
This would be perfect for a black comedy like "the death of Stalin"
Dark* comedy lol
Yeaah.. that's racist 🤭
"Death of Saddam"
@@stefanmihai8446 it’s not racist it’s just the proper term. It has nothing to do with race
@@dr.g.o.a.t.ph.d9250 thanks. It was sarcasm.
This is kangaroo court.
Screw You Shepard! Made me cry... lol
You're bloodline is roman shepherd
Should have used bird law
Well look at you General. A clear conscience in the afterlife eh
@Saddam Hussein Pissst saddam your really in hiding arent you? With bin ladden, stay away from Epstein
That old man at 6:19 spoke more facts than this whole video
True, full of wisdom. What a fine educated human being
Ben Kingsley is truly a versatile actor.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude 💀
Lmaoooo
Gandhi
Even though he was a horrible man, he did not have a fair trial. The whole point is that no matter the atrocities of the defendant, a fair trial is the example we give to the world of our civility against inhumanity. Not to become LIKE those tried, but to be above it to do the right thing. The outcome on a guilty man will be just in a just courtroom. My unbiased opinion.
Poor Saddam didn't get a fair trial.
You must live in a fantasy world power because Saddam Hussein never ever ever ever ever use the rule of law and I don’t give a shit if people killed him the way they killed him him Gaddafi all those people they got what they deserved and I don’t care
What is funny to me is that the replies to my comment are exactly why I made my comment. Some of us know law and what it should be no matter who is on trial. Your personal opinions like sarcasm, judgement and uncaring natures are why you are not judges. Leave personal feelings at the door. He would have been found guilty regardless, without making a mockery of true jurisprudence.
@Aaron H And arguments are for courtrooms, and your obviously asshole reply just now reduces your validity. Unintellgence and injustice happens on every level. To read my initial comment and reply like that shows your character. The people who understood what I wrote, liked it, because intelligent individuals use logic and reason to discern meaning in reality. Bye.
@Aaron H Ah....you are also intellectually disabled. See now I said, "Your asshole reply"....translation, what you are still doing now. Get a life and have a good day. This conversation (or lack thereof) is over.
Sadam should of hired Johnny Cochran as his lawyer. " If there are no bomb, let go of Sadam.."
😂
Gold! Haha. "can't find a wmd, saddam must go free "
@@bradpenley they did find WMDs though
@@bradpenley the wmd doesn't fit Saddam's hand, gota let Saddam go free ahahah
If there’s no yellow cake let my man skate
Fun fact, you can still think that Saddam Hussein was a terrible person who deserved exactly what he got without supporting the Iraq war
nah thats not true
@@TheBlueGrinchofSurgeryyes you can. Sad dam was a pos
I don't like this guys annoying smirk while saying he's confident that the judges are focused on giving a fair trial🙄
Yeah he doesn't look trustworthy at all🤨
I mean...he "trained" those judges, do you think he doesn't know the whole trial is a farce? He's quite desperately trying to stop himself from bursting out laughing, as he lies through his teeth to the interviewer about how he believes there will be a fair trial.
I think it's hilarious. Glad we got his kids too.
The Brit clearly couldn't hold back his laughter. He was on the verge of bursting into hysterical laughter.
He's done horrible things, but he does deserve a fair trial even if the outcome would be the same.
Edit: my line of reasoning is thus: I think everyone deserves a fair go at justice by a fair trial, if you've done bad enough things a fair trial would still give the death penalty, it happens all the time.
i agree
should have never been there in the first place
the mandate of the west doesn't include invaded countries by the west. odd paradox. if you are an enemy of the west you are no longer at duty of western ideals. horrific misduty for its power.
@@skraminc isn't that just an excuse to be able to treat whoever you label as an enemy of the west however you want? I think that's why the "mandate of the west" should still be applied, to prevent that.
Not really
I was working in Sweden for a brief time. Some of my colleague's were from China, Iran and even Iraq. One of them had Saddam as his phone background pic. This was in 2020. So his memory still lives on and im sure vast amount of Iraqis would prefer him over the shitshow that is going on in Iraq since he was liquidated.
As an iraqi i fully agree
Quality of life in Iraq was pretty good and better than any were else in the region prior to the sanctions in the 90s and the illegal 2003 war
If Saddam was still in Iraq, Ghaddafi in Libya and Mubarak in Egypt, we'd have a very reduced refugee crisis.
And iran wouldn't be a problem what we did to sadam was evil
More like if USA and England didn't start a way on Iraq based on fake information and train Ben laden to fight Russia before turning up on him and supporting every dictator in the middle East the refuge crisis won't happen and million of lives wouldn't be lost
@@thegodfather_8455 Correct
@@ahmedadly6066 Correct
Brave new world! We’re regressing more now than ever
We'll build back better. Eat the bugs.
the only character i related to in that book was the savage.............didn't end up too well for him though
So true...
Remember that the rates of cancer after the second invasion have quadrupled In Iraq. The invasion was the greatest destruction and abuse of human life since vietnam or cambodia. The treatment of people by U.S. troops did differ, but the sense of indifference prevailed. "As long as it's not our people we're burning alive or burying under dirt, then you have nothing to feel ashamed of"
They get what they deserve im tired of pretending that they are good people
@@acdesegurgels8663 Are you saying that everyone in Iraq is/was evil and therefore deserved to have their country destroyed and suffer consequences of that war that are and will be manifesting for years to come?
Mofos name is@@acdesegurgels8663
I'm pretty sure you're nothing good yourself 😂👌
@@SunFlower-oc3se He's typical KKK
@@acdesegurgels8663 Least racist american
Imagine if people hated you so much that they were assassinating your lawyers
It was is real and the usa. He fired missiles into is real after a palestinian woman cried for help, saying he would burn is real. This was payback.
I forgot what real journalism looks like until I saw this story
This guy was retired to the Southwest United States where he lived out the rest of his CIA retirement.
What?
Bingo.
😂😂
He should have insisted on a trail at The Hague.
He might've been valuable to keep alive in prison, in retrospect. After a decade in the hole maybe he would start playing ball and could've given valuable insights into regional affairs.
@@hankherchiv8301 doesn't sound like a bad idea
No way, Saddam wouldn't want to be away from a place he still had influence. His ability to shout and scream during the trial etc is his way of throwing a smokescreen, and like Trump in a way, gives him the ability to pander to his base supporters more convincingly.
7:09 legend has it he's still trying to drink that too hot coffee.
I burst out laughing when the narrarator exclaimed, "and now the Iraqis people can watch it live and make up their own minds."
2 seconds later
"On the state run media with a 20 minute delay in the 'live' program"
I’m sorry but all I can think about is the puppets in “Team America: World Police.”
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@@BigKrisMorris ^^^^^^^^^
This is actually verbatim.
Not sure of the specifics of this case, but everyone deserves a fair trial.
fuck no lol
Saddam denied many people a trial at all.
You must be from america, in shit holes like this, they don't do things fair.
@@subikomanner4193 fuck yes… it sets the precedent for the justice system and by extension, the government to do whatever the fuck they want. Regardless of who is on trial, a fair one is just deserved, it is critical. The evidence will do the work
@@jd8226 dawg, hes a dictator, he killed most of my family members when they were doing their own thing and didnt have a thing to do with military, does that sound fair to you?
He was shown more mercy than he ever gave.
4:50 An Iraq that believes in human rights and in lawful government ... LMAO
LOL! I swear these guys think we are absolute buffoons
The thumbnail makes him look like a hockey coach standing on the bench, yelling at the ref.
Oh how I miss these days of hearing of Sadam Hussein. Sure beats 2020
Lmao the guy on the right at 6:41 has me and the wife laughing with how he's trying to get into the camera frame.
😂😂😂
0:02 He don't look like a dictator,he look like my simple Essentric uncle who didn't shave his beard.
What's that old saying, don't judge a book by it's cover.
@@kathyvandusen988 amen to that!
@@kathyvandusen988 i dont think the saying was like that, i think it was:
Dont judge a cover by his book
All because he was trading Euros for oil , what about the criminal invasion of Iraq ?
I don't know there was a trial for Saddam Hussein before his death I thought he was captured and he was killed.
Gaddafi was the dictator who was captured and killed by locals on the side of a highway without any trial.
Same, I thought a group of people got ahold of him, then hung him.
U can hardly call that a trial
Not saying Sadaam was a good man, but we claim to take the high road and label these men criminals and tyrants. Pot calling the Kettle you ask me. So it seems……May GOD unite n protect us all! Thats what this world needs today!
I agree with you to the extent that removing Saddam from power was the biggest mistake the US made. We had no problem propping him up when it was convenient for us during the Iraq - Iran war. It was his hegemony that leveled the balance of power in the Middle East and Iranians in check; they sure didn't talk about getting their hands on WMD's, nuclear or other. Here we are 20 odd years later with nothing to show for our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan but massive losses of revenue and lives. May G-D Bless America nonetheless.
I was in Iraq when we captured Saddam. I knew an mp that spent time guarding him. I asked him what he thought about the man. He replied, " he loves cool ranch Doritos".
Yall made that country even worse than it was during his time.
@@6ix9inetechashy invading Iraq wasnt my idea.
@@johnnyweston9954 I never said it was your idea, did I?
@@johnnyweston9954 my fucking sides, what a comeback lmao
@@johnnyweston9954 yet you invaded it!
Iraq was better off with Saddam. He was a terrible guy but at least he kept order.
Same with Libya and Gaddafi
You must not of lived in Iraq during his reign...yeah shits bad now cuz they don't got no organization its hard to switch a whole countries govt...look at america we went thru civil wars world wars depressions the whole 9 when we switched govts....it will take time courage and teamwork w the civilians....the isis and extremist roll thru there cuz they have nothing to fear now, before if they came thru there sadam woulda bombed their civilians in the country thats why noone wanted to invade Iraq until sadam died...sadam was a horrible man horrible leader look at his works he extravagantly built palaces and shit w Iraq money instead of putting it into infrastructure like roads buildings markets ya know the shit that makes a civilization prosper....I can't believe Iraq is still basically living in the ancient eras...no civilization in 2020 should be living like that....humans are shit we are going to be the demise of ourselves!
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@@SentMyOwnWay but you dead bro 💀 they snapped ya neck in the noose 😂
Same with Serbia and Milosevic, Ukraine and Yanukovitch
Literally killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iran, Kuwait and Iraq itself... And he expects a fair trail? Lol.
@KINGOFTHE TORTAS he didn’t say anything of the sort u clown
Kuwait was stealing oil and actively trying to drive down the value of Iraq’s oil. Iraq took issue with it and wanted to attack Kuwait. Saddam was in contact with the U.S. and asked if there would be repercussions if they attacked Kuwait, to that the U.S. communicated something to the effect of, we don’t get involved in other worldly matters. Iraq attacked Kuwait. The wealthy lobbied our government to take action, the response was something to the effect of we can’t risk lives for oil. So the rich paid for a campaign to convince the American people that Saddam was a threat to the world. The rich got richer, the American people were deceived, the generals got their war and then the entire Middle East proceeded to get fucked...
@@MICHVEl12 There is no evidence of the oil theft
@@jackieclan815 there is no concrete evidence, you are right. Although the evidence that does exist points to companies on the Kuwait portion of the Ramalia field stealing oil by drilling vertically in order to extract oil that would technically be on Iraq’s side of the field. Combine that with the fact that Kuwait was producing more oil then it had agreed to, and considering that they owned a smaller portion of the field... circumstantial, sure.
Regardless if that were true or not, the campaign to go to Iraq was still a lie, and it still happened over oil.
@@MICHVEl12 Yeah but the oil Kuwait was supposedly stealing was very minimal at best. They could've tried diplomacy
He got a fairer trial than any he'd ever given anyone else. In fact they didn't get trials, they were just killed and were usually innocent of any crime. He got more justice than anyone ever had from him.
Yeah f that guy
What a set up!! They wanted him and got him and America and eu first to act on everything but didn't act on this playground bullies
The 1988 Al-Anfal campaign resulted in the death of 50,000-100,000 Kurds (although Kurdish sources have cited a higher figure of *182,000* ), while *25,000-100,000 civilians* and rebels were killed during the suppression of the 1991 uprisings.
Try killing and torturing innocent people and let see if people want to get rid of you fast
@Black Guns Matter I want you to look my father in the eye and tell him his four young children and wife weren’t innocent and deserved to be buried alive.
@Black Guns Matter I wish it didn’t, psychopath.
@@rosanak2374 proof?
@@ihatelimabeans820 what do you want me to do? send pictures of his dead children hanging on our wall. Fucking do your research on the Anfal genocide in 1988. Have some sympathy instead of showing your ignorance and asking for proof in a youtube comment section
2:50 Funnily enough this is my town. Saddam was ambushed by I believe 6 or 7 people but they failed, so he ordered to execute them, a lot of their relatives, and even tortured their wives and children. This severe punishment was a statement of dominance to prevent future attempts. The trial might not have been fair, but he deserved what he got even for a fair trial. This is even without the mentioning of mass graves where people are buried alive for minor or non-existent offenses (Simply mentioning the Ba'ath party in a negative light), or the order of using internationally forbidden chemical weapons on civilians as what happened in Halabja. My country might have been abolished to the ground during recent events but I wouldn't think Saddam would've done better if he stayed at power because We'd be much be like the middle eastern version of North Korea.
So what’s the condition of Iraq now???🤦
Thats called treason. And its allowed to kill traitors in most countries. I doubr he would torture women and kids as he loved kids and honoured women. Stop lying
From his pov I can see where he thought it was a game. There was never a chance for true defense, there was nothing he could do or say to change the outcome. If he did somehow win the trial, he would have likely been assassinated. There is no 'fair' here. Not for judges, defense, prosecution, not for victims, families, not for their people. . . Whether you agree with him or not. I don't think there was a truly fair option anywhere for unbiased legal recourse.
He played the game of thrones and lost
What is fair at that point though. Wasn't the evidence for his human atrocities overwhelming?
Disciplined Healing Yes it was but so did the Allies (Saudi Arabia, NATO, etc) but since they won their genocide are not considered genocides
@Black Guns Matter no both sides committed a lot of heinous crimes . . . in War there are no heros or bad guys
@@Graymenn How did he lose at the game of thrones when he ruled for 25 years
I am an american and this is what I have to say. Iraq had oil, Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world, Iraq was one of few arab countries with a true leader not a puppet government, Saddam was not a slave to the west, Saddam defended countries from colonialism. Saddam went directly against the neocolonialism and greedy interests of America and its allies. Lets's not pretend this war was anything moral or had any morality in its motivations. This was was for the greedy personal immoral benefit of oil giants, snake politicians, and the elite. Saddam was human and has his shortcomings but he was a man and was cleaner than Bush, Blair, and many other slimey politicians. Saddam spoke his mind and was straightforward which terrified the west. America manipulated its fine men and women into sacrficing themselves for nothing and Uncle Sam killed over a million Iraqi civilians excluding military officials and personnel. This war is a stain of shame on american and human history and it is disgusting how no one was heald accountable. The sins and wrongdoing of America throughout the years will not go unpunished whether it is here on earth or the day of judgement.
Yet Saddam was totally supportive of Iraqi colonialism of Kurds, and Russian imperialism and colonization. He definitely supported colonialism, so long as he wasn't the target. Nothing new here
Bro Shutup. Sadam was a menace. Yes Iraq is worse now but don’t be blind to his true nature
Çok doğru konuştun kardeşim iç sesim olmuşsun saddam bahane petrol şahane halk kimsenin umurunda değil Amaç petrol
100% facts
And they just won't stop. Look at Palestine now.
Look at the mess they created by getting rid of him.
5:33
@@datmanbrooksiehd875 that guy looks like he was born yesterday, what does he know about the time Saddam was ruling
@@Quranic_sounds this was filmed in 1996 lmao. He looks at least 20. So today he would be over 40. How old are you ?
@@datmanbrooksiehd875 2006 not 1996
Sadam was tough as nails until the very end. Even as a prisoner, they feared him.
Love kills
Amazing charismatic leader
Whatever you think of him, he was hardcore....
This is what our court system will look like in the not so distant future.
That’s so sad lol
Whenever they say "Human Rights" they mean American/Israeli Hegemony.
We don't want any hegemony, we just want people to stop attacking our ancestral homeland.
@@michaelcovst1 whose homeland? The Palestinians that have literally been there for thousands of years? You have a piece of land in the desert surrounded by Arab countries yet European Jews consider this their homeland and don’t consider Palestinian people indigenous 😂 it’s so ridiculous that its comical at this point
The real tragedy was for the Iraqis after his death
What happend ?
Husky Fusky when us invaded Iraq cuz of weapon of mass destruction that was never found. They sucked the live essence of their oil refineries
@@HuskyTheAirBreather Oh, not much. Iraqi insurgence resulting in countless civilian deaths at the hands of the US, ISIS, Iran trying to spread its theocratic ideals, public beheadings, etc.
As you sow , so shall you reap...
@@bruhsoundeffect1903 I know, like hardly anything!!
Ah yes that soothing British accent, don’t worry everything is under control
I dont know why this was recommended to me
Or why it was 16 years late
But I'm watching it all of it
They shouldn’t have killed him just locked up and he could be in podcasts now
Wow forgot to laugh
@@Gcc539 pay attention ass hole don’t let it happen again
@@Gcc539 cry more
Seems like he didn't like the ole uno reverse card
7:08 onward is my favorite part. 🙅♂️
Can't an old man eat his drink in peace?
@@meltingeinstein3012 I think it’s funny because they are randomly holding on this old guy struggling to drink his hot drink. It’s just so bizarre.
It was a show trial which is more than most of his victims recieved before being shot..
The judge who judge Sadam have his head rolled by his countrymen after the American flee
He executed people nd tortured people. He is inhuman. Justice served.
Who said he didn’t execute innocent people so shut the f up and don’t talk in anything you don’t know .
@@UnderdogFelonyClinton who stole your candy?
@aladdin tv 2 i dnt support the invasion but toppling saddam was a must.
@@PritomAhad yeah and ISIS is now a real danger there
Ever government has done it
I somehow felt sorry for him. He was a friend of Bush, he opened the door, there were no weapons found, an illegal invasion took place and he was sentenced in a kangaroo court. Oh well.
No i honestly think saddam was on track to be hitler or some Yugoslavian genocider of the Middle East.
Your an idiot, read some literature, Saddam killed religious and political dissidence with chemical weapons
@@joaquind254 ohhh. Triggered
@@DominicClark-cy8mq I’m ashamed to think I’m apart of a species that think it’s acceptable to pardon a known backer of terrorists and destroyer of young innocent lives
@@joaquind254 ohh again. Triggered
Me: (watches a video about how to draw better)
UA-cam: Since you watched videos about drawing here’s a video about Suddam that’ll you’ll love.
Putin's trial will be like this very soon. I will buy the Popcorn.
Karma in action, people didn't get fair trials under his regime.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
If Iraq was truly a free Democratic train then it should have been *BETTER* than the justice system under the Saddam regime.
This should have been a court case at The Hague, but was not held there because the ICC can’t recognise events before its founding in 2002 and it was felt that this case would prove Iraq now had a function judiciary.
While I weep no tears for Saddam’s passing, this was not the fair trial that the victims of his regime deserved
If karma was real every American politician would be in the Gulag right now for what they did to us.
6:45 is a mood lowkey (look at bottom right)
Straight up. I cant put it into words, but I feel it in my soul.
The United States and the UK need to be held accountable for what has happened in Iraq. A true illegal invasion and a war crime!
Not only iraq ...
Now Yemen
Palestine
They could have easily found him guilty even with a fair trail. It’s just worse that they made a mockery of the legal system when they had a slam dunk anyway.
Things were better there when he was still in power, Isis wouldn’t of ever happened if things were left alone and plus there weren’t even any weapons of mass destruction
wasnt it great when sadaam hussein commited genocide against the kurds? it was so nice wasnt it?
The only good thing saddam did was realize how much more deranged and subhuman his son uday was to let him inherit the power.
Saddam, one of the greatest leaders of all time, before Saddam there is no ISIS .
@David Tucker ISIS and Taliban ain't same. ISIS is CIA America sponsored terrorists. While Taliban are fighters of Afghanistan
*borat accent* "Saddam greatest leader in whole world. When he ruled i had 12 goats all to myself!"
the guy in the background at 6:43 tho im dying
Where was the trial for osama . And where was the his video of execution like saddams
They change the judge 3 times and people still thinking it is fair
I don’t think anyone thought it was fair.
I knew it was a show trial before I was even old enough to understand what a kangaroo court was.
And I grew up thinking the Iraq war was a good thing at that.
Their is something poetic about despots becoming victim to the same weapons they used on others though, isnt there? It reminds me of Beria
glad his ass swung, and im glad we got to watch... people saying he deserved fair trial is a joke... did the people he tortured and murdered get a fair trial ... nahh lol
@@durtydawg3130
من تعيش بالعراق وتعرف منو الي عدمهم عود وقتها تكلم عن الي قتلهم ياجاهل 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
@@joehill4094 prove he did any of that crap fool. Learn before you speak
7:04 It was so important to see the guy drink coffee .
can you guys show more please
i will say one thing for him he didn't shit his pants when being led to his execution he had courage.
yea the serial killer and mass murderer has courage in his final moments… how admirable 🤦🏾♂️
@@TheApolloOrder yes i agree.
Hes going to heaven thats why, death is the beginning in islam, and the best death is martyrdom.
What ever happened to the weapons of mass destruction Saddam had it hike the US just wanted his oil..
Strange how some people think a dictator would end up dictating his own death sentence. Maybe some of them did far greater crimes than him and got away with millions and billions even with fair trials 😂
4:51 "an Iraq that believes in human rights and the rule of law" that's a big yikes from me, dawg
😂😂😂😂😂
hey, where is Bibi's war crimes trial ?
His will come in the here after
i hope some
I have never supported the invasion of Iraq. Not once. However what we saw here is just an example of a system using Sadam's own brutal tactics against him. He'd rail about not getting a fair trial. At least he got a show one. More than he gave thousands.