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Our Situation is no Different from the Dark Days of Saddam Hussein
by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 8 November 20051 comment
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2005-11-07 :: azzaman ::
The former regime of Saddam Hussein suppressed all forms of freedom, did not tolerate the slightest dissent and buried any voice he did not like.
As a result of his rash, brutal and despotic polices we ended up in the kind of the brutal foreign occupation we have now.
Iraqis’ pleasure over the collapse of the regime was short-lived. It did not take us long to discover that there has been little or no difference in conditions before and after the so-called “liberation of Iraq.”
But the tragedy is that those ruling us still persist that their days are better than those of Saddam Hussein’s. Two and a half years after the “liberation” we need to examine our conditions to see whether they are better or worse than those before the “liberation.”
Today our country is plagued with crises which have been accumulating and aggravating with each passing day without anyone of them addressed or even alleviated. The fuel crisis is a product of the new era of “liberation” and there is nothing in the horizon that it is going to be solved in the near future.
Then we have acute shortages of most amenities, including basic services like power, clean water, garbage collection and sewage disposal. We need not mention the security situation and the daily car and suicide bombs as well as rampant corruption, assassinations and kidnappings.
In reality we are in the midst of mounting chaos, and dangerous descent into lawlessness and disorder. All our hopes for a better future are gone and our dreams broken. The reign of Saddam Hussein was the worst of times. And now we are also passing through the worst of times.
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9 November 2005, 22:02
Bush has the charming capability of taking fantasy for his reality. He had no excuse for invading Iraq, but a hundred reasons have emerged to excuse his arrogance, including the famous "Saddam was EVIL, and 9/11 gave me enough reason to invade."
HIs lies include his views of sovereignty, on preemption, on international conduct, on diplomacy and on the imminent threat Saddam was to blowing up Crawford, Texas. He never mentions oil, military bases, building large embassies, seizing Saddam’s palaces for operations but frequently portrays himself as some kind of hero before or after 9/11. This pretension marks him as a stupid man, an egomaniac, a crude pretender after power, a spoiled daddy’s boy, and as an exploiter of patriotism and religion.
The dark days of Saddam are approximately like the dark days of Bush. Same arrogance, same disregard of others, same brutal conduct, same claims to be THE LAW.