Saddam Hussein’s capture will not resolve Iraqi quagmire

[IndianaGreen]

Saddam Hussein’s capture will not resolve Iraqi quagmire
By the Editorial Board
15 December 2003

The capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, hidden in a hole at a farmhouse outside the central Iraqi city of Tikrit, has been the occasion for full-throated exultation on the part of the Bush administration, the US occupation authorities in Iraq and the American media.

Erstwhile opponents of the illegal US invasion have been swept up in the wave of Washington’s triumphalism. Germany’s chancellor Helmut Schröder and French president Jacques Chirac wasted little time in sending their craven congratulations to George Bush.

There is no doubt that the gloating in both the White House and the media will continue for many days to come. Having demonized Hussein as the equal of Hitler, his apprehension is treated as a milestone in the birth of a “free” and “democratic” Iraq. This interpretation of events evades a number of inconvenient questions.

The first was posed by a reporter at the press conference held at the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad to announce the capture. “Was it possible to run the guerrilla war from a hole underground,” he asked.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/sadd-d15.shtml

[candy331]

1. A dance with the Devil

calls for payment sooner or later even if one does not think so. I imagine some awful profanity exhuded out of mouths in Washington yesterday for capturing Sadaam alive.

[jbfam4]

2. Thanks for posting

Excellent article.

"In any case, if war crimes charges are to be brought in relation to Iraq, the most serious one of all would be leveled against the Bush administration itself for plotting and prosecuting an unprovoked war of aggression."

Taken from the above posted article

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3. Thanks IG for the fine article

[papau]

4. ABC News' Ed O'Keefe reports Kerry's Bush not fit to be CINC

ABC News' O'Keefe reported that Kerry has changed his stump speech and is not doing a blanket blast of Bush for domestic and foreign policy failures including Iraq.

Kerry now asks "How does one measure the words 'Mission Accomplished'?" ... "Notwithstanding the capture of Saddam Hussein today, which we celebrate, this President doesn't have the experience to be Commander-in-Chief." ... "Anyone can read what's been written for them."

Sharpton also had a good line:

Although good news, the accomplishment does not diminish Bush's false motivation to engage in war... and the media's foriegn policy focus should change from who supports the war, to the need for and cost of NON-UN continued occupation of Iraq.

Of course our whore media will do what Rove wants. Sharpton and Kerry and Dean are not worth understanding, or having their views in front of the public.