What an asswipe. Really.

Saddam Hussein Calls for Reconciliation
Updated 8:12 AM ET November 7, 2006
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A somber Saddam Hussein called Tuesday for national reconciliation as he returned to court for his genocide trial, two days after another panel sentenced him to hang for crimes against humanity.

During the afternoon court session, Saddam cited references to the Prophet Muhamad and Jesus who had asked for forgiveness for those who opposed them.

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Well, well, well... let's just see how Saddam and his henchboys went about the process of "reconciliation," shall we?

Here's a nasty little collection of videosthat you can download and watch (if you want to) that shows Saddam's boys torturing a few victims.

From the article, "Baathed in Blood":

Two years later, he invaded Kuwait and treated its civilians with notable brutality. When Operation Desert Storm shattered Saddam's army, both Kurds and southern Iraqi Shiites rose in revolt, and the regime maintained power through astonishing savagery, which filled mass graves across southern Iraq with an unknown number of Shiites--perhaps in the hundreds of thousands. The same images are evoked again and again: rapes, murder of children, forms of torture that make your eyes flinch from the page, and masses of victims buried in the night.

Mass Graves of Iraq: Uncovering Atrocities tells us that Saddam's version of "reconciliation" included the following:

The 1983 attack against Kurdish citizens belonging to the Barzani tribe, 8,000 of whom were rounded up by the regime in northern Iraq and executed in deserts at great distances from their homes. The 1988 Anfal campaign, during which as many as 182,000 people disappeared. Most of the men were separated from their families and were executed in deserts in the west and southwest of Iraq. The remains of some of their wives and children have also been found in mass graves. Chemical attacks against Kurdish villages from 1986 to 1988, including the Halabja attack, when the Iraqi Air Force dropped sarin, VX and tabun chemical agents on the civilian population, killing 5,000 people immediately and causing long-term medical problems, related deaths, and birth defects among the progeny of thousands more. The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shi’a Muslims after the Shi’a uprising at the end of the Gulf war, in which tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in such regions as Basra and Al-Hillah were killed. The 1991 Kurdish massacre, which targeted civilians and soldiers who fought for autonomy in northern Iraq after the Gulf war. Opponents and critics of the regime from all religious and ethnic groups were also executed and buried in mass graves. Many of these are believed to be located at or near prisons and former military establishments. These crimes have acquired a measure of notoriety and salience. Thousands of other Iraqis, including Marsh Arabs, Shi’a Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s, and students involved in uprisings in Najaf in 1999 may also be lying in mass graves in Iraq.

More of Saddam's "reconciliation" efforts here:

Torture Methods in Iraq Medical experimentation Beatings Crucifixion Hammering nails into the fingers and hands Amputating the penis or breasts with an electric carving knife Spraying insecticides into a victim’s eyes Branding with a hot iron Committing rape while the victim’s spouse is forced to watch Pouring boiling water into a rectum Nailing the tongue to a wooden board Extracting teeth with pliers Using bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents

An infant's garment pulled from one of the mass graves.

And old Saddam compares himself to Jesus?