Ding, dong, the wicked dictator is dead.
Since I read the news of Saddam Hussein's execution last night, that refrain has been echoing in my brain. That, and the question: Now who will try George W. Bush for his crimes against humanity? Tens of thousands are dead because of Bush's -- and by extension, our -- lies, greed, fear and power-mongering.
But as the following article points out, it didn't start with Bush. He's just another cog in the wheel of western imperialism. What I want to know now is, where will it end? Who will be courageous enough to say, The violence stops with me? Who will be big enough to say, No more?
No more.
Saddam Hussein: A Dictator Created Then Destroyed By America (The Independent UK via AlterNet)
An excerpt:
Who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.
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