Robert Fisk: His sons are dead but Saddam lives

[The_Bearded_Liberal]

If he and his sons are dead, the chances are that the opposition to the American-led occupation will grow rather than diminish - on the grounds that with Saddam gone, Iraqis will have nothing to lose by fighting the Americans.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3514198&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue

[LawDem]

1. The real test comes after Saddam is dead

Some day Saddam will be killed -- probably some day soon. That's when the real test of the neocons speculations will begin.

[Cha]

2. sadam was supposet to be dead already. That's why the military

bombed the hell out of that city block in Baghdad.

[cosmicdot]

3. so, * illegally invaded a sovereign country to steal their oil

and, obtain a replacement for Saudi bases, etc., but, also, to kill Hussein's sons? the latter ... is this media splash suppose to give some legitimacy to actions by the illegitimate administration? to make what happened to Ali's arms somehow justifiable and worthwhile????

at least Robert Fisk is helping to keep focus on the main event

the people calling people sadists like the rumor passed in the yellow journals about re one of Hussein's sons, either Uday and Qusai ... kettle meet pot pot meet kettle ... killing 1000s unnecessarily and abusing others as we breathe seems rather sadistic

[IndianaGreen]

4. Fisk mentions the infamous Task Force 20

The Americans used their so-called Task Force 20 to storm the pseudo-Palladian villa on a main highway through Mosul.

Task Force 20 combines Special Forces and CIA agents. But this is the same Task Force 20 that blasted to death the occupants of a convoy heading for the Syrian border earlier this month, a convoy whose travelers were meant to include Saddam himself and even the two sons supposedly killed yesterday. The victims turned out to be smugglers. And American Intelligence was also responsible for the air raid on a Saddam villa on 20 March, which was supposed to kill Saddam. And the far crueler air raid on the Mansur district of Baghdad at the end of the air bombardment in April, which was supposed to kill Saddam and his sons but only slaughtered 16 innocent civilians.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0723-02.htm

[BoatsTwice]

5. Fisk would be more convincing were it not for the fact

that he has been wrong at every opportunity. Does this guy think that no one remembers his poetic fawning over "fortress Baghdad?"

I am really tired of this battle between the non-credible Bush junta and the just as unbelievable English speaking media.

[JawJaw]

6. Fortress Baghdad

Sometimes you can't see the barriers. But they are still there.