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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Ilaine who wrote (211316)1/7/2007 11:32:52 AM
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What is important is that he is dead.

.... Hussein appears to have been virtually cleansed of his past...

"Suddenly we forgot that he was a dictator and that he killed thousands of people,” said ... a Lebanese Christian. “All our hatred for him suddenly turned into sympathy, sympathy with someone who was treated unjustly by an occupation force and its collaborators.”

Just a month ago Mr. Hussein was widely dismissed as a criminal who deserved the death penalty...

...But shortly after his execution last Saturday, a video emerged ... From then on, many across the region began looking at him as a martyr.

nytimes.com
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