Speaking of Gazette articles, Norman Webster gets it right about Saddam and why he’s got to go:
“He is the most dangerous creature God ever created,” an Iraqi woman living in exile shivered to an interviewer recently. For decades, Saddam has brutalized rivals, friends, mentors, Iran, Kuwait, Israel, the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs, the poison-gas victims of Halabja, millions of ordinary Iraqis and the very environment of the Gulf.
The most chilling film clip you will ever see is the one where Saddam announces to an auditorium that he has discovered a plot and has the names of the plotters, including close acquaintances, read out. As they are named, they stand and are led away, never to be seen again.
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In sum, this is a truly wicked man, deeply evil, as deadly and disgusting as his role model, Stalin. He just hasn’t had as broad a canvas to work on.
He has tried to remedy that defect, relentlessly pursuing the weapons that would make him a destroyer of worlds. He was almost there when the Israelis took out a reactor near Baghdad in 1981, and again 10 years later, when the first Gulf War interrupted a nuclear arms program that was only months from fruition – not to mention biological and chemical horrors.
The scary thing is that much of the world actually believes that Bush is more dangerous than Saddam. I suggest they try spending a week living near either one of them. Let them try voicing a dissenting opinion to both of them. Let’s see what they have to say after that.