The Dangling Corpse of Saddam Hussein and a Bit of Context
January 1st, 2007
On 17 December 1983, President Reagan’s special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, flew into Baghdad bearing a hand written note to Saddam. In it Reagan offered to renew diplomatic relations and to expand military and business ties with Baghdad. Howard Teicher, who traveled to Baghdad with Rumsfeld, said that it was this letter that paved the way for the U.S. tilt to Iraq: “Here was the U.S. government coming hat-in-hand to Saddam Hussein and saying, ‘We respect you, we respect you. How can we help you? Let us help you.'”
In 1995, I wrote a case study entitled, The Tilt that Backfired – Historical Perspectives on the Persian Gulf Crisis. If you’re interested in placing the dangling corpse of Saddam Hussein into a bit of context, I’d still recommend that paper. If you want more than a bit of context, there’s not a finer source on the subject than the almost entirely unknown, forgotten and out of print, Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq written by Alan Friedman.
Will the Americans, who made Saddam Hussein’s ghastly crimes possible, also get their necks snapped by the hangman’s noose?
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Two thumbs down.
How much more ridiculous can whoever is behind the curtain in DC-Oz get? YAWN.ZZZZ.
If Saddam was “hanged” today then KEN LAY MUST BE DEAD.
Jessica Lynch was a heroine.
Pat Tillman was killed by the enemy.
Osama B Laden EXISTS.
..and Sudam Hussein was worse than any jackass currently participating in the Grand Charade of U.S. politics.
We in the U.S. are going down.
No amount of fake news, propaganda, or other news theater is going to change it.
Check the article at the link below out. Very Interesting.
“Something similar is happening again, 230 years later, as Pluto is coming around to the same spot. This time, however, it’s the American government that is putting the squeeze on the people. A Pluto-style transformation doesn’t happen overnight, and events that seem at first random and explosive don’t come out of nowhere. They have been brewing and simmering for years. While many people will probably be nervous wrecks during the two turbulent decades ahead, many old hippies will come joyfully out of retirement, thankful that the revolution they quit their jobs for 40 years ago may finally be happening. And their kids, born in the 60s and 70s, who grew up embarrassed by their hippie parents, may be shocked to see how right their parents were.
Planetarium
Special Alert: Horoscope U.S.A.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/12/lutin200612?printable=true¤tPage=all
I hope you don’t think this is to goofy for yourwebsite. I gained some comfort from the article and wish I could get out now.
Won’t happen. Weep for me and my Mom.
E
The Tilt that Backfired is an excellent paper Kevin.
My thoughts on the lynching of Saddam and Iraq
1) We invaded Iraq for reasons that turned out to be lies. We put its King in chains and threw him in a dungeon where he was left to rot except for periodic displays, and finally we hung him like a dog in the middle of the night. But through it all, Saddam more or less kept his dignity.
I have no love or admiration for Saddam, but the way he was put down is bound to lead to trouble. Anyone with any sense in the middle east has to know that while the US is the current bully on the block, that day is quickly winding down, but in the waning days of US meddling there are likely to be more vicious outbursts against anyone weak who crosses us.
The New York Times ran an article today suggesting that the US consoled the puppet government to not kill Saddam in the middle of the night during the Eid, but our puppet rebelled and did everything to expedite the death of Saddam. One has to wonder if this was a planted NYT article who are now lackeys for the US Government, or if the story is true. If the article is true we have merely substituted one tyrant who hates us for another. Time will tell.
2) The other big observation is that Iran is now the dominant player in the middle east. 27 years of US policy has been squandered by George (The Dunce) Bush, regardless if peak oil is here or not. I didn’t use to think that the nation of Israel was in trouble, but I now believe it is doomed. Maybe not this decade, but by the end of the century I think the Arabs will get up the gumption and the weapons to wipe out Israel. One hates to think of another mass extermination, but I think it is coming.
Who knows if there is really an Osama or not, but one thing I do know. If his goal was to get the US to abandon the Middle East, then he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. In what will be a short span of 8 or 9 years, the US will have gone from being the dominate player to almost no role at all. I wasn’t much of a believer in forth generational warfare, but I’m beginning to think there might be something to it. I’m not sure if the US will wash its hands of Israel or not because there are strong blood-ties across the oceans between the two countries, but the dominance of the US/Israel is on the wane.
If the whole stinking system doesn’t collapse in the next few years, we should continue to have a steady stream of interesting news.
This story rings a bell…something about pontius pilate?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/world_saddam_execution
The U.S. military had held Saddam since capturing him in December 2003 but turned him over to the Iraqi government for his execution.
just a thought here….
dental records have a been a standard of identification for many years in courts. try looking up a picture of Saddam in ‘custody 2005-6’ and Saddam from desert storm. Does thousands of dollars of dental work disintegrate that easily in a decade and a half? or, if you looked like saddam would you hide in a hole until the heat dropped? or maybe the floor in this case….
Can anyone remind me how many beltway experts it takes to capture a second-choice, third world, oil-rich but otherwise unremarkable butcher, overthrow him at meteoritic taxpayer’s expense, turn him into an international martyr of neo-colonialism in a an eminently flamable region of the world, while turning into enemies the -so far- moderate sunni heads of state of said region by gravely alienating them once again?
How many “Pillars of American Conservative Thinking” does this take? HUH? any idea?
To robert:
I could not agree more: for as much as it pains me to acknowledge it, it seems that your average sharia-pickled mollah in Tehran is considerably smarter than your average privately owned and operated senator in Washington…Result: Tehran had Washington for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and a few impromptu snacks in between)for the better part of the last decade…NOT good.
A head E.U. diplomat in Baghdad was asked five years ago by an embedded journalist what Iran should do to improve its standing in the face of the “decisive” way the US was conducting the “War On Terror”.
His answer: “WAIT”.
NYT piece: not the first time THEY realized they really bleeped up, and have their court writers issue a statement in the free press saying in essence that, no, not really we were not planning on bleeping up THAT bad, they were just bleeping up on a “business as usual” basis, you know, kind of a casual, routine bleep up, they just unwittingly outdid themsleves without realizing it, thereby opening new, breathtaking horizons in the art of bleeping up …
They present this as an EXCUSE.
Could somebody explain this loonytoons psyop to me? This actor simply can’t be the real Saddam. There’s much info here: http://www.gulufuture.com/saddam-romance.htm (breakfornews is a disinfo site but contains much info nonetheless).
The fake Zarqawi no doubt didn’t expect to be killed, only play the fool for the cameras. But what happened here?
Ah, so now we can watch government and big-media sanctioned snuff porn, and faux/staged celebration.
Man hung for killing 148 in operation that killed 650,000.
“Executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they do not answer their purpose.” – Samuel Johnson.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4940DA96-ABAE-4684-B86E-831004B3185A.htm
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/45699/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5368360.stm
Martyrdom; my point exactly. Check out this animation from Mark Fiore.
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/despot.html
I said it would alienate (was designed to alienate?)sunni leaders in the middle east: I was “misunderestimating” it, it’s broader than that, please read below:
http://www.thestar.com/article/167592.
Besides, who thought it was a good idea for “the leader of the civilized world” to just go ahead, kill the father and his sons, then display the pictures/videos in the media for the world to see, like HUNTING TROPHIES? If non industrial, brown skinned people were displaying the corpses, or severed heads of their enemies at the gates of their villages, we would call them savages. The empire does the same thing on TV, that’s “news”…PANEM ET CIRCENSES. The whole thing is just not only medieval, but furiously incompetent. It’s not so much that I have a problem with the ruthless, devastating and pathetic attempts of these people to be an empire, what floors me is how bad they are at it…The “New Rome”? these people are flattering themselves…Imperial roman elites were a bunch of ruthless assholes, but they also had class and brains: 2 characteristics conspicuously absent from the american landscape today…