Iran leader says US Behaves Like Saddam in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=10&u=/nm/20031114/ts_nm/iraq_iran_usa_dc

<snip>"Americans killed hundreds of innocent people in Afghanistan and they continue to attack and kill Iraqi civilians," Khamenei, Iran's most powerful figure, told thousands of worshipers at Friday prayers in Tehran.


"They are suppressing the Iraqi people exactly like Saddam Hussein used to," said the black-turbaned senior cleric.


Once close allies, Iran and the United States became bitter foes after the 1979 Islamic revolution toppled the U.S.-backed shah and radical Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took dozens of diplomats hostage.

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good one!

;-)

. . Under Saddam - they had hydro

. . Under Saddam - they had water

. . Under Saddam - they had jobs

. . Under Saddam - they had CONTROL (by Saddam, granted)

Now - under the USA's "freedom" thing, alot have none of the above,

along with the loss of tens of thousands of civilians lives, and 100's of thousands of wounded

and don't furget the 2000 tonnes of munitions (Depeted Uranium one of Murikkka's favorites) dumped on Iraq, surely to cause decades of disease and suffering

GAWWWWD - I could get to like Saddam more than the USA's Administration -

Now THAT is a sad state of affairs !!

(sigh)

Implying people who cowered under Saddam's dictatorial control were better off is simply pathetic.

At least keep the curse words out of the subject line.

Welcome to DU!

you are joking right? You don't think the Iraqi's cower in fear now when our GIs bust into their homes and pull them out of their beds in the dead of night to look for "saddam loyalists". Quit watching faux...

Bush style... :puke:

I do believe Iran has something over the misadministration because they sure aren't taking a hard line approach in dealing with the Iranians. Curiously enough the cleric who was killed by a terra bombing a few months ago in Najaf had been in exile in Iran for quite a few years.

Same as the old boss

LOL

I think the nail was hit squarely on the head

It's easy to think of at least two reasonable measures of Iraqi suffering under Saddam versus the same under Bush.

1) Iraq under Saddam's terror had a functioning infrastructure. Iraq under the ongoing terror of Shock and Awe has been struggling to meet basic necessities and to endure the violent anarchy brought on by the collapse of society.

2) The misery was native. Today's misery is inflicted by morally preening foreigners who killed their way in to teach "democracy" lessons that involve regularly entering homes and tying up innocent families. Ask any occupied people whom they would prefer - bad leaders of their own or equally bad colonialists.

It may be possible for some power wiser and more decent than the one in Washington to help build a functioning, improved society in Iraq, but that is nowhere in sight.

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said last week Iran's "hidebound clerics" had dragged Islam into "the political gutter." Days earlier Bush challenged Iran's rulers to heed what he called the "democratic demands" of the Iranian people.

"Who the hell are they to talk about democracy when Americans have occupied Iraq against its nation's will?" Khamenei retorted.