New for old replacement policy
Apparently, Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people. At least, that’s what Donald Rumsfeld said, while recording a speech “in an ornate room of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces”, surrounded by a clique of Western military officials. If you look at the picture that tops the article, you can see what liberation looks like.
But it really does look like a Western democracy. In Australia, if protestors throw paint, you trample them with horses. In Iraq, if a protestors throw shoes, you mow them down with machine-guns. (I thought it was Saddam who crushed dissent by military force?)
When the pro-war commentators refer to examples of Iraqis bagging Saddam Hussein, it pays to put them in context. Of course they hate him. But they aren’t happy with the US ruling them from the Ba’ath party offices, either…
