Full video of Saddam Hussein execution - Robert Fisk: He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him
2 January 2007, 10:44
Saddam is now a greater threat in death than he was in life. No matter how one feels about him - that he was a murdering dictator, etc. - and the manner by which he was deposed - via the illegal invasion by the United States, based on lies and misrepresentations - the stoical even heroic way he faced death is going to serve as an inspiration and rallying point for millions of Arabs and Muslims. The Americans have merely killed the man, but the idea - resistance to western imperialism - remains alive.
Saddam is now a greater threat in death than he was in life. No matter how one feels about him - that he was a murdering dictator, etc. - and the manner by which he was deposed - via the illegal invasion by the United States, based on lies and misrepresentations - the stoical even heroic way he faced death is going to serve as an inspiration and rallying point for millions of Arabs and Muslims. The Americans have merely killed the man, but the idea - resistance to western imperialism - remains alive.