Iraq’s president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other “crimes” committed during his regime.
President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge that “he was able to extract confessions from Saddam’s mouth” about crimes “such as executions” that the ousted leader had personally ordered.
Talabani said that some of the confessions involved cases under investigation, but he did not specify them. Saddam faces his first trial Oct. 19 for his alleged role in the massacre of Shiites in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad, in 1982.
Saddam was a genocidal dictator who murdered hundreds of thousands, started two wars of aggression (against Kuwait and Iran), and spent billions on weapons all while his country suffered. Life imprisonment is too good an outcome for him, though all the facts of his atrocities must be aired and broadcast to record his evil deeds for posterity.
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