assistance included precursors for chemical and biological weapons and targeting information that was used to target Iranian troops with chemical weapons. Bush administrations were supplying him with military technology, tactical intelligence, and billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-subsidized loans. Let’s also acknowledge that his worst crimes occurred in the 1980s, when the Reagan and George H.W. While we’re speaking of history, let’s not forget that Saddam Hussein came to power in 1968 with the aid of the U.S. There was no need to spend $150 billion and counting, to waste hundreds of American lives, to kill thousands of Iraqis, and to alienate large parts of the world, all to “get” Saddam Hussein. There was no operational link to Al Qaeda. There was no imminent threat to the United States or its neighbors. There was no significant stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. The capture of Saddam Hussein does not necessarily make us any safer. While the mainstream media focuses on what a “major league bad guy” Saddam Hussein was, it is important to remind ourselves that Iraq is a sideshow in the war on terrorism. Unless these practices change, the capture of Saddam Hussein will be a symbolic event that has little real meaning in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people going forward.įor citizens of the United States, the capture of Saddam Hussein doesn’t change the fact that, as Senator Robert Byrd said at The Nation magazine annual dinner on December 14th, Iraq was “the wrong war, at the wrong time, fought for the wrong reasons.” forces continue to use assassination techniques, aggressive house raids, lock downs of entire communities, bombing raids, and other tactics virtually guaranteed to alienate the Iraqi people?
What is Washington going to do to fulfill its pledges to bring security, democracy, and a decent standard of living to the Iraqi people? While the people of Iraq can breathe a sigh of relief that Saddam Hussein will never return to power, the real questions going forward are not about the behavior of the OLD ruler, but about what the NEW ruler-the United States. occupation in Iraq remains the same EXCEPT that Saddam Hussein has been found, the Bush administration is not going to be able to “change the subject” and declare victory in the face of the ongoing unraveling of its policy on the ground.
media outlets, the harsh bottom lines in Iraq remain the same.
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But aside from providing some dramatic footage for global TV audiences, what has really changed, for the people of Iraq, the Middle East, the United States, or the world? Despite the wave of triumphalism that has seized the Bush administration and certain U.S. The capture of Saddam Hussein is an historic event by any standard.
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