January 06, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

SADDAM NOW A MARTYR

George W. Bush's orgy of death and destruction featured Saddam Hussein as the embodiment of all evil. Bush, who appears to have had a personal grudge against Hussein, launched an evil and unprovoked war against Iraq because of his hatred for Hussein and because the neocons in his administration wanted Iraq. There is a so-called "Reverend" who writes hateful and mouth-foaming screeds to The Fresno Bee. The "Reverend" talked about what a butcher Hussein was. He conveniently ignored the complicity of the Reagan-Bush administration in supporting Hussein during the Iraq-Iran war. If Hussein was such a symbol of evil, it would have been better to keep him in prison as a reminder of the regime he led. Instead, Bush and company have made Hussein a martyr. This article by Hassan M. Fattah is linked at www.sfgate.com:

In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of an imprisoned dictator, has undergone a resurgence of admiration and awe.

On the streets, in newspapers and over the Internet, Hussein has emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him.

"No one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed," President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt remarked in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot published Friday. "They turned him into a martyr."

In Libya, which canceled celebrations of the feast of Eid al-Adha after the execution, a government statement said a statue would be erected depicting Hussein in the gallows.

In Morocco and the Palestinian territories, demonstrators held aloft photographs of Hussein and condemned the United States.