[lit-ideas] Aren't you glad you no longer have a Saddam problem?
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:20:25 -0400
The beginning of the article:
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*Great Moments in the History of Imperialism
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*By William Blum
06/23/06 "**Information Clearing House*
<http://informationclearinghouse.info/>*" *-- -- National Public Radio
foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR's Baghdad bureau,
met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was
described in the NPR report as "a moderate" and as a person trying to
lead his Shiite followers into practicing peace and reconciliation. He
had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and forced into exile. Jenkins asked
him: "What would you think if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?" The
cleric replied that he'd "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the
way it is now."[1]
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*The end of the article:*
"Yet, despite the fact that it would be difficult to name a single area
of Iraqi life which has improved as a result of the American actions,
when the subject is Iraq and the person I'm having a discussion with has
no other argument left to defend US policy there, at least at the
moment, I may be asked:
"Just tell me one thing, are you glad that Saddam Hussein is out of power?"
And I say: "No".
And the person says: "No?"
And I say: "No. Tell me, if you went into surgery to correct a knee
problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would
you think if someone then asked you: Are you glad that you no longer
have a knee problem? The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam
problem." And many Iraqis actually supported him.
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*The rest of the article:*
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13719.htm
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