Maybe denial is a river in Egypt
Man, I've heard about denial before, but Saddam Hussein is the real Freudian king of the hill when it comes to not facing facts. While testifying at his trial, he is still claiming to be the duly elected leader of Iraq!
Whatever you think about the war, this spectacle would be frightening if it wasn't so funny. At what point do you decide that maybe you're not running the country anymore, that the jail cell in which you spend most of your time is not a presidential palace, that one way or another what you had is gone?
Maybe he thinks this is just a minor setback, all a big misunderstanding. Perhaps he's trying to hang on to some dignity, the very quality he denied to the citizenry of Iraq.
Most likely, he's stupid. And crazy.
Whatever you think about the war, this spectacle would be frightening if it wasn't so funny. At what point do you decide that maybe you're not running the country anymore, that the jail cell in which you spend most of your time is not a presidential palace, that one way or another what you had is gone?
Maybe he thinks this is just a minor setback, all a big misunderstanding. Perhaps he's trying to hang on to some dignity, the very quality he denied to the citizenry of Iraq.
Most likely, he's stupid. And crazy.
posted by Michael Riley at 1:57 PM
2 Comments:
We always want to apply American standards of governance and jurisprudence. The truth is, under the laws of Iraq that existed when Saddam was in power, one could argue that he acted quite lawfully. Therefore, is the tragedy that Saddam exists, or that a country which could produce a Saddam, exists?
There are thousands of so called "anti-war" protesters in the US who want Saddam's current situation to be merely an "minor setback"
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