90 percent in the US were once in favor of invading Iraq, and now is a time for introspection....so we can avoid making the same mistakes again.....
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http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/A...s/CN123006.htm
.......There was, at dawn on Saturday, no “justice” meted out in the assassination of Saddam. It couldn't even have that Mussolini feel about it: a popular execution in broad daylight, unafraid and unquestioning, <h3>because in this case the executioners themselves have too little to distinguish them from the executed.</h3> It isn;t just their faces that are masked, but their motives and future plans. Meanwhile the hanging has been merely the enactment of a scene written in American stage directives almost two years ago, to fulfill another one of those sensational benchmarks the Bush administration invented as substitutes for real strategy, for policies that could make a workable difference for Iraq......
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Contrast yesterday with this:
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http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-463.htm
Voices from the Grave: “Just Look at Them Now”
When Mussolini and His Fascist Friends Dangled
Philip Hamburger/The New Yorker, May 19, 1945
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.......There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh-a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid. The people in the square seemed to understand that this was a moment of both ending and beginning. Two minutes later, Starace had been strung up alongside Mussolini and the others. “Look at them now,” an old man beside me kept saying. “Just look at them now.”.........
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.....the point is that the "something dark and fetid" did not "die" with Saddam, yesterday. It is alive in our leaders, in the hooded executioners who yelled "moktada", at Saddam, in his final moments, interrupting his attempt to pray, and, I fear...it is very much alive in the blind sentiments of too many Americans....