Victor's Justice.
Martin J Deane
30.12.06
Saddam Hussein executed.
It sounds like the end of the war doesn't it? A hangman's knot seeing
him off ; he seeing it as he refuses to wear a hood. A final victory over
the forces of darkness that once ruled the country with an iron hand.
It is like the justice at Nuremberg which condemned some and not others
especially the useful ones. And he is killed because "we" don't like him.
More explicitly the conquerors of Iraq, America and Britain, Bush and
Blair, and those who represent them (though not us) whether titled as
MPs or uniformed as soldiers. They are supposed to represent us but they
do not. If they did we would not have invaded Iraq. If they did the troops
would be home now.
Saddam has had victor's justice. True he may have been killed anyway had
"we" not hung around, had "we" been honest about merely "liberating" the
place. He had enough enemies throughout Iraq. But it wasn't a civil war;
it was a most uncivil one. And it still IS and continues to be uncivil.
No one would want this liberation. Blair sold them a dud. And us. Anyone
see a pattern here? I don't see it as incongruous to name Hussein and
Blair in the same breath. By comparison Hussein is quite the honest killer.
Hussein was killed for killing 140 or so Iraqis in 1984. Why not other
crimes? The major ones? They got a quick mention towards the end I remember:
the estimated 20,000 to 100,000 Kurds killed about 1988 by "Al Anfal"
(the Kurds claim 182,000), the 60,000 to 130,000 Shia killed in 1991.
And when was sentence passed? A few days before elections that Bush really
cared about, ie American ones.
I suppose it's treasonous to call for the death of the leader of our own
country. But it's difficult to contemplate the deaths of 655,000 Iraqis,
the vast majority of them children, women, the old, all innocent of any
fighting. They are the victims of Blair's words, actions and orders, and
the majority of MPs who backed the war. What should we do with such a
man? How come this despicable clown Machiavelli is still in charge?
The Iraqi president now says they are rid of "The filth of a dictator".
He is wrong. He has chosen one dictator over another. Rather he has been
chosen by the latest dictator. He is a puppet of Bush, by definition,
as no country has a wholly legitimate government while occupation continues.
And it is destined to continue for quite some time - until the oil runs
out because since 2005 and "peak oil", oil has only increased in value
with every passing day whether or not it is precisely reflected in the
price.
Is it acceptable for us to continue to give our leaders the benefit of
the doubt about how Iraq will turn out? No. It is not. They had the benefit
of the doubt when some people began to believe Iraq may have had some
weapons of mass destruction. Nor is it acceptable to argue that UK forces
must stay. This is the best argument Blair has left which is why it is
used all the time. But the vast majority of the Iraqi people, as expressed
in opinion polls at election times, is that they want, above all, foreign
troops to go. But no one has taken notice of that. Almost no one has reported
it. And so power and media in Britain pretend we are doing some good.
They, Blair and friends, have used up their credibility. It is shown for
the fabrication it was with analysis of the dossiers, with the Downing
Street memo explaining Bush was manipulating the evidence to get war,
with the instinct that we have that Blair was always going to follow Bush.
As he has. Full on war, 655,000 dead. No remorse, no regrets, no apologies.
If there are tears they are the tears of the crocodile.
Just because they are "our" leaders does not make them any more righteous
than any other countries'! Less so, no? These days? The years after Hitler?
When a large, rich country bought the ideology of Nazism wholesale with
very little question allowing it to influence every part of life: across
politics, the media, education… Allowing them to believe they had every
right to expand into neighbouring countries and starting a war which killed
an estimated 60 million people.
These are times of war, where truth is the first victim, where commonly
aggressors fabricate and pursue and plan their war even for years in the
background. Some of you did read the former finance guy from 2000: 'As
soon as Bush was elected it was all about Iraq'.
There are other solutions to the situation of Iraq! It is only the brainwashed
who believe that America and Britain have a monopoly on how other countries
should conduct themselves, whether Rwanda, or Iraq, or Iran. The entire
future of Iraq does not have to be dictated by America and Britain as
it is now. But those "great powers" are going to continue to paint it
that way.
I thought this might get River to write again and it has. If you have
never read her, read her now: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
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