The link was to commondreams, but it was just a copy of an article from the Guardian, a British newspaper. I guess I was lazy, and didn't go back to the original source.
I don't recall anyone, here or in the British press, left-wing or other, who wanted to keep Saddam in power. Unless you define anyone who is pro-peace or anti-war, as a Saddam apologist. In the Cold War, anyone who opposed the many U.S. military interventions or covert CIA operations, from Vietnam to Haiti to Iran to Chile, got accused of being a closet Communist, or (a more subtle smear) of being a "usefull idiot/tool" of the Kremlin.
Same tactics being used today. What you're saying is, there are only two kinds of people: pro-war/pro-Bush, or pro-terrorist/pro-Saddam. There are as many pro-Saddam people in today's peace movement, as there were Stalinists in the anti-Vietnam War movement. That is, almost none. |
