Saddam Hussein's Letter to an American
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In 2001, American software engineer Christopher Love wrote a letter to Saddam Hussein. Much to his surprise, Saddam Hussein responded. This used to be on the website for the Iraqi Mission to the UN, but it has been scrubbed there. I am publishing this letter here in hopes of keeping this recorded in the logbook of history

Seen on TodayILearned@lemmit.online : TIL in 2001, an American computer engineer emailed Saddam Hussein and received a 10-page personal reply

I ~know he’s not exempt from critics(, thinking about his alliance with the west against Iran, or how the external/western “pressures” made him react against ‘domestic terrorism’), but neither are we, as “glorious policemen of the world”.
(I also remember the usual lies/‘atrocity propaganda’, e.g., about his son torturing every day people for fun)
Nobody forgot the death toll

Oh and, b.t.w., if you didn’t already know : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5