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To: Ilaine who wrote (212082)	1/8/2007 7:56:48 PM
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Your position is oddly narrow: "what's important is that he's dead." There's a fact you refuse to see. That there were two ways to kill him. One that inflames greatly more than the other. You're capable of seeing that. You're a smart person. But for some reason, instead, it's an airy, Oh, those romantics. It's just a little cult of personality, look, here's "cult of personality" in Wiki! Our strategy seems to be a reversal of the winning-hearts-and-minds approach. It's as though our aim had been to create that "cult of personality." There's a trial. Saddam is defined as a murderous dictator and duly sentenced. Then, oops, we hand him over to what appeared to be a jeering lynch mob. Through sheer ineptitude, we do a posthumous PR job for him across the ME, as though our aim had been to cleanse him of his filthy past. "Just a month ago, Mr. Hussein was widely dismissed as a criminal who deserved the death penalty..." nytimes.com.