Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America
Published by Haseeb December 30th, 2006 in Current NewsSource: Independent Online Edition
Our masters will tell us… that it is a “great day” for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi “government”, but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.
But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?
No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don’t gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn’t invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.
And don’t forget those cowardly democrats. They could have done something to punish the President since the evidence is there and so is the support. However, they decided to make like wimps and do nothing. I hope they get run out of office in 2 years (especially if they select Hillary who cannot win, Edwards who ought not to win, and Obama who will receive the fewest votes ever cast for a presidential candidate from one of the major parties if he’s on the ticket). dems suck. vote green.
Although this article brings up many good points, how the US “created” saddam as if we told him to gas the kurds and kill thousands of Shias. The iran-Iraq war was backed by the US but not started by the US. I wholeheartedly agree that Bush should be hanged from the highest tree, and it is unfair that this country is the “police” of the world, but I am not sorry for Hussein’s death. It is hard to feel sorry for someone who, like Bush, killed hundreds of thousands of people. I know many muslims are saddened by his death, but why mourn him rather than the hundreds of thousands of lives him and Bush have taken away? If some are sad because he was killed dus to a US puppet trial and it was “unfair” , think about how many trials he gave his enemies before he gassed and shot them without provocation.
Oh, and stewie, as if the Green party will win anything? Uhm if Ralph Nadre wasn’t on the Ballot, we would have had Al Gore as our pres and he wouldn’t have gone to war at all!