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Executing Saddam Hussein

Comment by Larry Ross, January 1, 2007

Every tactic the US has taken in Iraq since their 2003 invasion seems to have been designed to provoke more hatred of the US and more, not less, terrorism. The US public are conditioned to believe that there is no such thing as legitimate armed resistance to their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq . The US government and mass media promote the fantasy that any opposition to US rule must be called "terrorist". The US mass media is more than happy to oblige the Bush regime, by using US psy-war designed words and definitions of the Iraq situation as part of their campaign to justify and white-wash every new US atrocity against a sovereign state and its people.

Executing Saddam, rather than imprisoning him for life is another example of the real US policy of making more, not less, opposition.

Executing Saddam "on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world" according to Robert Fisk, is another deliberate provocation. It's a twist of the US knife, to gain the most mileage from the situation by creating more resistance and terrorists, thus furthering real US strategy in Iraq and the Middle East.

The real strategy is to engineer uncontrollable chaos, including civil war in Iraq and create a deliberately weak government that then needs US military and huge new US bases to 'promote 'freedom and democracy' and help fight the terrorists for the puppet Iraq government. The chaos and violence are then blamed on Iraq 's neighbours , Iran and Syria - targets for the next US assaults.

The Bush regime is planning a much wider war in the Middle East, including provoking a war with Iran and the wider Islamic world.

The Bush regime purpose, as expressed in the various papers of the Neo-conservatives, is domination of the whole Middle East and its oil resources.

Ultimately the objective is "full spectrum dominance" of the world and outer space, according to neo-conservative and Pentagon documents.

Creating more real resistance, labelled "terrorism" for the public, provides the chaotic social climate required to further this process.

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A Dictator Created then Destroyed by America

by Robert Fisk, December 30, 2006

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi "government", but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.

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