How do you say in Arabic “In the name of Allah, don’t put me
in feet first”?
Last month Paul Bremer described in the Wall Street Journal his shock at traveling around Iraq and seeing Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers. I’ve reported here meeting a woman who went to the uncovering of many mass graves where thousands were buried alive. I am not blind to Saddam’s behavior the way most Americans and 99.9% of Europeans and Arabs are.
What struck me in Bremer’s piece was that he saw wood chippers at most of the torture chambers. Did Saddam get the idea of putting people in wood chippers from the Coen brothers 1996 movie Fargo or was it the other way around. I remember that Saddam’s taste in art was the same as Hitler’s.
The wood chipper led me to think about the first line in this blog. Of course a torturer would always put a living human victim in feet first.
Farewell Saddam. History shall remember every Lefty, European and Arab who felt the Coalition forces invasion of Iraq was a mistake.