Billions of dollars missing, senseless invasions, Western/corporate support, lost loved ones....

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Hussein era secrets may lie buried
Many fear his death ends hope of learning more about his crimes.
By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
January 1, 2007

BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein carried to the grave many of the most closely guarded secrets of the labyrinthine nation he ruled for 24 years.

Even many Iraqis who are not mourning the execution Saturday of the fallen dictator are wistful about losing the opportunity to learn more about the crimes of his regime.

Investigators are still scouring the globe for billions of dollars Hussein transferred to foreign accounts before his fall in 2003. Human rights agencies continue to search for mass graves of thousands of unaccounted-for victims of his reign.

Historians are still trying to understand why Hussein risked economic ruin when he invaded Iran in 1980 and international condemnation when he invaded Kuwait in 1990, putting him on a collision course with the United States that eventually would lead him to the gallows.

Researchers still wonder how much support Hussein received from Western governments and corporations for his weapons programs and gas attacks on Iraqi civilians.

And many Iraqis continue to harbor more tragic questions about the fate of tens of thousands of loved ones taken away by his security forces.

Hussein's execution came sooner than many here expected....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-secrets1jan01,0,7259946.story?track=mostviewed-splashpage

[dave_p]

1. Never mind the tragic questions

... To be honest I'm more concerned with the useful answers.

How to keep this mess of a country going, preferably without gasing its citizens, if possible? Who do we need to do business with, and how to go about it, because the assholes we entertained in Washington are quite literally worse than useless?

Where are those answers? Where were those questions? How many American and Iraqi lives thrown away like shit to satisfy some overgrown frat-boy's wet-dream? How much more of this lunacy do we take?