A Very Cruel Joke

And how come the tribunal has not included charges of conspiracy against others who had a "role" in the alleged massacre, namely, Mr. Bush, Sr., Mr. Rumsfeld, Mr. Chaney and the very dead Mr. Ronald "I Don't Recall" Reagan.

Iraq's Special Tribunal Announces Hussein Charges: "Former president Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants will be tried, perhaps as soon as early September, for their alleged roles in the 1982 massacre of more than 150 people the town of Dujail, the chief investigative judge of Iraq's Special Tribunal announced Sunday."

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"Compared with the chemical weapons attack that killed an estimated 5,000 ethnic Kurds in the northern town of Halabja in 1988, or the brutal suppression of a revolt by Shiite Muslims in 1991, the Dujail massacre was a relatively minor incident. But its limited scope made it easier to investigate and produced a less complex case than other alleged crimes, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity."

And perhaps this last bit of omission was to further hide the role of the Reagan Administration in the killings perpetrated by Mr. Hussein.

I wonder whether the Iraqis find this cruel joke funny or simply sad.