Posts Tagged ‘Saddam’
Documents Show Iraqi Dictator’s Fears
By SCOTT SHANE Published in the New York Times: July 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — In a series of interrogations before his execution, Saddam Hussein told an F.B.I. agent that on the eve of the 2003 American invasion, Iraq was trapped between United Nations orders to demonstrate that it had disarmed and a fear that appearing too weak would invite [...]
Save your homeland, Leave Iraq – Remembering Saddam’s 2006 Letter to the American People
As the Americans prepare to “leave” – in a manner of speaking -- Iraq, in order to replicate in Afghanistan and Pakistan the mess they made of Iraq, it is instructive to re-read Saddam's letter to the American people , the final lines of which are reproduced below: Final lines (“Save your homeland, , and leave Iraq. Peace! God is [...]
