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May 23, 2006
A Poke In The Eye To Saddam's Apologists
Those that defend Saddam Hussein's regime--either directly (Ramsey Clark), or indirectly (by asserting that Iraq is no better off now than under Saddam)--have clearly abandoned any semblance of moral or intellectual honesty. The evidence of Hussein's murderous treatment of the citizens of Iraq has been publicized for years; the contorted rhetoric that somehow equates premeditated mass murder of men, women and children with collateral casualties caused by the US and its allies is still repeated far too often.
The Weekly Standard is highlighting a new book (link via Arts & Letters Daily) that details exactly who we are dealing with. Entitled Le Livre noir de Saddam Hussein ("The Black Book of Saddam Hussein"), this collaborative effort presents a tsunami of damning evidence.
IN A BRIGHT ROOM IN Baghdad, Saddam Hussein is on trial. In the din of America's public square, so is the invasion that overthrew him. An international stable of writers argue that the only evidence that matters, in both trials, is of Saddam's horrifying human rights violations. Nine years after the acclaimed Black Book of Communism appeared, another French publisher has issued a 701-page "black book of Saddam Hussein" that pushes to the background all talk of WMDs, skewed intelligence, terrorism, and democratization, and focuses our attention on the atrocities of a tyrant of historic proportions.The book's editor, veteran French journalist Chris Kutschera, concludes that while "the American war may not have been the ideal way to put an end to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship," there was no better one, because overthrow was simply no longer possible from within a savagely repressed society. So: No invasion, more Saddam. And that was an outcome these authors--an array of Middle Eastern, European, and American journalists, academics, and activists--could not bear.
This hefty volume includes almost three dozen substantive chapters chronicling the rise and record of Iraq's Baath party, the operations of Saddam's secret police, his cult of personality, his sanguinary wars against Iran and Kuwait, and his international suppliers of arms and diplomatic support. They show that Saddam's quarter-century in power was a virtually uninterrupted exercise in bloodletting in nearly every direction.
It's unclear whether The Black Book of Saddam Hussein is available in English yet--Amazon doesn't list it. The book has evidently, and predictably, been snubbed by the French press, a fate it will no doubt encounter once it appears over here. We wouldn't want to disturb the wolkenkuckuksheim--cloud-cuckoo-land--inhabited by Saddam's miserable apologists, now would we?
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It will be interesting to see how the book is received here, I don't expect much. Feel free to see what is really happening in Iraq, and the rest of the CENTCOM area of operations at www.centcom.mil.
Sgt. Gehlen
U.S. Central Command Public Affairs
Posted by: Sgt. Gehlen at May 23, 2006 10:40 AM
