The capture of Saddam Hussein (2003) | 60 Minutes Archive

That fly made the most of his screen time

Iraq war was one of the biggest, most expensive, mistakes our Country has made in my 40+ years.

A lion is a lion even if it's powerless. A diamond is a diamond even if it's in dirt.

I am from Iraq , But my family left Iraq in 1998 when I was 4 years old. In 2003 after the war my family decided to visit Iraq to see my grandparents. That was the only time I saw my country, it was just for 2 weeks. At that time we wanted to get to Iraq, it was difficult since there were no flights, so we went to the nearest country to Iraq which is Syria , and went to Iraq by a car , we were attacked at the Iraqi border between Iraq and Syria by American tank which had many soldiers.. and the car we were in was destroyed while we were inside . I was less than 10 that time , that scene is still engraved in my memory and I have never been to Iraq again.

Imagine risking your life over oil and now your paying 5 bucks a gallon.

He was a leader who didn't leave Iraq for his safety but remained there

This still stuns me how such a powerful leader get reduced to those living conditions you would think he would be well protected

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My dad was deployed there in 2003 during the invasion. I remember how my cousin, mom, elder brother and a neighbor were laughing at Saddam getting hanged while watching it live on TV in our house. I was laughing too. Well, I was just 8 years old in '06. What could I know? But now, I'm utterly repulsed. A pointless war and a waste of money and lives. May all the victims rest in peace. 🙏🏻

My brother met an Iraqi who he studied with in India and his whole family was murdered by US air strike while he was away from school only to come back home and found out your whole family is gone mother father sisters brothers cousins all gone....My brother said the guy never felt the same always sitting by himself in isolation at school always quiet like someone who is really Traumatize and very suicidal....Bush, Blair and all the people responsible will never have peace

It's sad that we lied ourselves into a war, out of justified anger and anguish of 9/11. So many innocent people, including children were killed/assaulted for this war. Sure. Saddam was a bad guy, but was it worth it? Forget the money, but all the innocent lives was avoidable. Nothing changed, it only got worse. And it opened my eyes, as someone who was 12 during 9/11. Really shapes how I view the world, and how at that time America was losing a lot of moral highground I once held for it, very quickly. Lots of horrific acts all in the name of fighting terrorism. A faceless enemy that gave us justification to enact terrible policy, lose our what privacy we had here in America, and a blank check to stay in perpetual war. I know war is highly complex, along with world politics. But there is no debating that Iraq was a terrrible mistake, that is stil affecting thousands if not milllions of families to this day. I understand that war is at times going to be inevitable, but this wasn't one of those times. And no American citizen should be okay with the government straight up lying to you in order to go into war, I don't care what political party they are. There need to be base line, common sense ideas and concepts we as a peoeple need to agree on, or this country will further degrade to the point of no return. I have already rambled enough, but if we took out all the deaths, the atrocities commited to people during this time in that region are absolutely despicable. Never let any politician on either side let exploit your fear, ignorance and anguish, because it never ends well.

Imagine killing Sadam for absolute nothing

As a Veteran I cannot find any satisfaction in this.

Lost my best friend because of the war and it fixed nothing

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Imagine coming back in a box from this war and dying for literally nothing lol

And to this day no one has taken responsibility for these crimes.

They removed one killer and created 1000 new killers in that country , so sad 😞.

That was really shocking for a man like sadam,all the same history shall live to tell

A man lived, a man died, and he spoke like a man