But the apparatchiks were officials in a murderous regime, and they & their families are the ones, the ONLY ones I would bet, who are pining for the good old days under Saddam.
The Neocon hawks' inability to see any Iraqi who is not smiling or tossing flowers has been partly to blame for leading us into the morass in which we now find ourselves.
They need to get the ideology out of their eyes and see things as they really are.
If there were an army occupying the US, conducting house-to-house searches, handcuffing and frisking citizens and wounding our children, you better believe there would be many, many Americans taking shots at them, regardless of how pure the occupiers' motives may be.
"They are killing us and no one's talking about it," Zahra Yassin said at a hospital with her wounded son. "We want Saddam back. At least there was security."
cbsnews.com
"We love him," said Madullah Hachem, a government worker with a jet-black beard and dazzling white tunic. "He gave money to the poor. He helped every man. And he made the city secure. Saddam Hussein loved God. We want him back."
sunspot.net
"They stopped my car, pushed me out, threw me on the ground, tied my hands behind my back and left me in the intolerable heat for four hours. They took away my pistol then let me go," said a 50-year-old teacher who gave his name as Hassan. Like others in the city of 400,000, he says he wants Saddam back.
taipeitimes.com
"We want Saddam Hussein back, and we will die for him," said one self-proclaimed cousin, Thfar Farthar, 19, who spray-painted "Saddam Hussein is the hero of the Arab people" on the low-lying wall of a local elementary school. "We love Saddam Hussein. We want him back. There's no honor without him. There's no freedom without him."
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