Can Saddam escape arrest for years? This may be theoretically possible. After all, some Nazi leaders managed to hide for decades. (Klaus Barbie was captured 40 years after the war had ended.) The comparison, however, is not exact. Unlike the Nazis who could hide in South America, Saddam, and the remaining Baathist fugitives, do not have a safe haven outside Iraq. This is why they can be captured. Provided someone begins to look for them seriously
This paragraph conspicuously avoids a crucial fact: Klaus Barbie was ushered out of Germany by the U.S., and then used to help support our fascist stooges in Latin America for the next few decades. I was wondering why the author would omit this obviously relevant point, and then I discovered he is a National Review writer, which explains everything.
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And some irony:
<<< In the late seventies and early eighties, the Israeli government was training the death squads in Bolivia and Guatemala (250,000 dead) in clandestine operations whose mediator was ... Klaus Barbie, a conspicuous Nazi who was later tried and sentenced in Lyon for crimes against Humanity. >>>
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