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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (6922)	7/7/2003 2:10:56 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Respond to of 8683

Here is journalist Saad al_Bazzaz opinion of Saddam: Born in Mosul in 1952, al-Bazzaz was a published author and journalist in his mid-twenties when he first met Saddam, who was then vice-chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of the Ba'ath party. Intriguingly, the up-and-coming politician wanted to discuss literature. He said that he had read all of Ernest Hemingway's novels while in prison, and especially enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea. al-Bazzaz remembers being impressed. In the intervening decades, he observed the dictator at close quarters. "By the end, I think Saddam genuinely believed he was a demigod, and that 25 million Iraqis were lower forms of human being," he says. "He came from an isolated village [al-Awja, just east of Tikrit] where people had nothing and felt they were second-class citizens. When he and his cousins arrived in the city, they used violence to get what they wanted. We have a saying - like elephants in a museum of glass. They destroy everything without opening their eyes. He continues: "Later, Saddam believed he enjoyed divine protection and that God had saved him many times over his life. That's why he felt he had been chosen to be more than just president of Iraq, to rule beyond Iraq's borders and face the imperialism of the West." full story at news.independent.co.uk And Tariq Aziz posts here trying to portray Saddam as a reasonable guy. You can't dupe everyone, Aziz.