So Hussein is dead.
Red-Scare-Queen Rumsfeld declared, "Off with his head!" in a— cough, cough— trial that made the Mad Tea Party look like a Zen Center.
And what does the world get out of it?
—One dead despot orginally installed by the CIA.
A more shocking corpse is the cold dead-end to any further investigation of Hussein's most egregious war crimes— Kurdish genocide, for instance. This isn't an execution, it's a cover-up.
If the latest American and British surveys are correct, 600,000 Iraqi casualities lay at the feet of the US invasion, and that is a number beyond the wildest speculations of Saddam's body count.
Yet the only Americans being hung out to dry are boy soldiers sent to their no-headlines deaths without so much as an adequate rope.
What did the Duchess say?
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Photo by Richard Hicks.
