Ali Hassan al-Majid was finally executed.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as "Chemical Ali" was Saddam Hussein's cousin. In 1988, Chemical Ali gave the order to release poison gas on the village of Kurds, killing over 5,000 people.
I am really surprised that the usual lefties haven't chimed in, expressing outrage that al-Majid was hung - executed. How inhumane! Remember how many libs were up in arms over the Hussein hanging - saying it was barbaric. Yet, forgetting that Hussein killed, tortured, and terrorized his own people for a quarter of a century. Hussein was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of his own people.
The world is a better place without these two monsters.

I thought when Jim asked the question to younger bloggers he was looking for a response from students, not someone that is younger than him! Thank you Mrs. Geiger-Hemmer for the history lesson.

Ali Hassan received five death sentences for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was also sentenced to multiple prison terms ranging from seven years to life for other inhumane acts.

On 2 December 2008, Chemical Ali was once again sentenced to death, but this time for playing a role in killing between 20,000 and 100,000 Shi'ite Muslims during the revolt in southern Iraq that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

On 2 March 2009, al-Majid was sentenced to death for the third time, this for the assassination of Grand-Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr in 1999.

I'm sure you are surprised by the lefties not chiming in, but I bet you that's a one way street! Class dismissed.

Amy...I was hoping one of our young bloggers would answer since I doubt any knew who this horrible example of a human being was. However, the bigger story, and the one that liberals, especially the youngsters, have no clue about is that Chemical Ali was the one that developed and used the WMD's for Saddam Hussein. The WMD's that these same liberals, old and young, still insist never existed. Yet this man was tried and executed in a free court (not heard of while Saddam was in charge) and then executed all over his and Saddam's building up WMD's and then using them on the Kurds as you pointed out. Probably the #1 reason I call out so many of these liberals as true idiots, or anti-American when they deny all this and then try to defend terrorist like the ones we still fight in Iraq.

Yeah Jim Hayett - publish your data - you big chicken.

Umm so I would've told everyone about Chemical Ali because I actually DO know who he was, but i guess Amy felt like answering. So sorry Jim, I would've answered, but I was too late I guess. And actually, I am a liberal who supports the death penalty in certain cases. So think about that.

I too could have answered Chemical Ali but seem to have reached the blog too late. As a matter of fact, NPR did a story on his life and death yesterday. (Hope that doesn't make your head explode, seeing that they're no good leftie treehuggers and all.)

Jim; The liberals do not deny that Saddam had WMDs at one time, what we protest is the fact that Pres Bush used the implication that he had/or was capable of producing nuclear weapons as the basis for invading Iraq. Also the chemical weapons that he used decades ago no longer existed. Interesting fact about textbooks, most schools have them on a 7-10 year replacement schedule. Today's events won't show up until 2020.

Compridious...you are correct but you forgot one major reason why he was executed. He used WMD's to kill all those innocent Kurds which many were women and children.

Andy...I did this because there is zero mention on our school history books as to how many WMD's Chemical Ali produced for Saddam and then used during his regime. Remember the WMD's that the liberal democrats said Saddam never owned? I do.

Ref33...is it possible that what you are saying is you believe Saddam's word in that he no longer had WMD's stockpiled? That's not what UN Res 1441 was all about. Ref...who said this? Hint: you voted for him/her.

"Together, we must confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation’s wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. The United Nations weapons inspectors have done a truly remarkable job finding and destroying more of Iraq’s arsenal than was destroyed during the entire Gulf war. Now Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission.

“I know I speak for everyone in this chamber, Republicans and Democrats, when I say to Saddam Hussein, “You cannot defy the will of the world,” and when I say to him, “You have used weapons of mass destruction before. We are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again.”

Betula...would you have known he was also responsible for making Saddam's WMD's?

I didn't realize that Jim's blog was just asking younger bloggers for a response. If you read his post, his first question is to all. "Does anyone know who this man was and what very critical role he played in Iraq?"
He follows that up with: "Maybe our younger bloggers could chime in and give us their answer." That doesn't appear to me that I am not allowed to respond because I may not be as young as some, but oh well. If you need to find something to pick on, Compridious, then go ahead and nitpick if it makes you happy!

When the new history books arrive in school, I wonder how they will tell the story of 9-11 and the invasion of Iraq?

Comp...we can only wait and see. And believe me, I can't wait.

Comp...think those kids school history books will have any of these politicians all telling us about why he need to remove Saddam??

http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/clinton-kerry-gore-call-for-war-against-saddams-iraq/

Jim: May I suggest you read the book by James W. Loewen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Vermont - "Lies My Teacher Told Me" - and see for yourself how the most recent textbooks handle 9/11 and the Iraq war. This is the second edition- published in 2007 (the first was in 1995). Very interesting reading.

Compridious: Wonder if the Iraqi people that American soldiers protected and saved from the demonic rule of Saddam Hussein as well as "insurgents" (otherwise known as "terrorists") consider their defense an "invasion" of their country....

Ref33...I may do that. Can you please send me a side email telling more?

How did you and your wife make it through all the sand storms? I heard about an antique car auction in AZ where the tent was blown away and the cars were sanded down as if they were at Earl Sheib's!

Compridious...Iraq was invaded. That's when one country "invades" another so to take over that country for conquest or plunder. Are you thinking of a different country and invasion?

Compridious...Iraq was invaded?? (forgot the ? in my last comment) That's when one country "invades" another so to take over that country for conquest or plunder. Are you thinking of a different country and invasion?