How does one go from a president crushing rebellions to a war criminal?

[NNN0LHI]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D7173DF937A2575BC0A967958260

President Hussein Has Talks With a Kurdish Rebel Leader

Published: August 14, 1991

President Saddam Hussein met today with a Kurdish rebel leader, Massoud Barzani, but there was no indication of progress in the stalled four-month-old negotiations on Kurdish autonomy.

The talks began in April after the President Hussein crushed rebellions by the Kurds and Shiite Muslims that broke out after Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf war.

The talks today, the first in two weeks, came amid indications of rising tensions in the Kurdish-dominated north and suspicions that Mr. Hussein may be stalling.

[eccles12]

1. When your once backer, the US, turns against you to get your oil. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

2. When people got there heads out of their ass ,oh I'm sorry I thought we ..

were talking about somebody else.

[cornermouse]

3. The only good thing and Saddam was the fact that he

helped keep the Iranians in check. You could say Bush created the Iranian crisis when he invaded and overthrew Saddam.

[baldguy]

4. You get on the wrong side of the BFEE.