Filling Saddam's shoes

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Filling Saddam's shoes

CounterPunch

Dave Lindorff

 

" One thing you can pretty much count on. When the U.S. charges in with

guns blazing and bombs blowing up with the promise of 'bringing

democracy' to some benighted and oppressed people, the end result will

be a corrupt and barbaric regime not much better, and maybe worse,

than the old one. ... So why the surprise that the regime set up in

Iraq, soon to be validated with a fraudulent election (the world's

first secret election where voters don't know whom they are voting for

because the candidates, especially those backed by the U.S., dare not

give out their names or speak in public of their 'platforms') is

proving to be every bit as vicious as the old (one-time U.S-backed)

regime of Saddam Hussein? " (01/26/05)

 

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01262005.html