A classic imperial predicament
Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway
01/09/07
Were Saddam Hussein's flawed trial and disgusting death just further examples of incompetence, or were they symptoms of a deeper dilemma? What did the incident tell us about America in Iraq and the problems of trying to impose democracy by force? One has to wonder how even a star-crossed administration such as George W. Bush's and his Iraqi allies could have turned one of the world's most cruel and despicable dictators into a stoic martyr-hero, facing death calmly in the face of an officially sanctioned lynching by Shi'ite militiamen? After all, the Americans had had physical custody of Saddam for nearly three years. Was it just another bumble that led them to hand him over so quickly to such an undignified death?
http://tinyurl.com/vuqwt
Hope for a unified Iraq died with Saddam
Frontiers of Freedom
by Greg C. Reeson
01/09/07
No sooner had the grainy cell phone video of Saddam Hussein's execution been broadcast across on the Internet than angry mobs began to fill the streets of Iraq, protesting not only the hurried nature of the act, but the manner in which it was conducted. Both objections are crucial to understanding the reality of Iraq today, a reality that was made glaringly obvious by the scene in Saddam's death chamber: sectarian divides have widened to a point where the idea of a unified Iraq with a representative government is no longer realistic...
http://tinyurl.com/yb4jpo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Saddam Hussein rushed to the gallows
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36057
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gallows
by H.D.S. Greenway
01/09/07
Were Saddam Hussein's flawed trial and disgusting death just further examples of incompetence, or were they symptoms of a deeper dilemma? What did the incident tell us about America in Iraq and the problems of trying to impose democracy by force? One has to wonder how even a star-crossed administration such as George W. Bush's and his Iraqi allies could have turned one of the world's most cruel and despicable dictators into a stoic martyr-hero, facing death calmly in the face of an officially sanctioned lynching by Shi'ite militiamen? After all, the Americans had had physical custody of Saddam for nearly three years. Was it just another bumble that led them to hand him over so quickly to such an undignified death?
http://tinyurl.com/vuqwt
Hope for a unified Iraq died with Saddam
Frontiers of Freedom
by Greg C. Reeson
01/09/07
No sooner had the grainy cell phone video of Saddam Hussein's execution been broadcast across on the Internet than angry mobs began to fill the streets of Iraq, protesting not only the hurried nature of the act, but the manner in which it was conducted. Both objections are crucial to understanding the reality of Iraq today, a reality that was made glaringly obvious by the scene in Saddam's death chamber: sectarian divides have widened to a point where the idea of a unified Iraq with a representative government is no longer realistic...
http://tinyurl.com/yb4jpo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Saddam Hussein rushed to the gallows
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36057
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gallows
rudkla - 10. Jan, 15:51
