Klaus
Refugee
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/opinion/02MONT.html?th
Mr Hussein plays his favourite role "Leader of Arab" in court, better than before.
Do you think he has any chance for a comback and might even get elected in the post-baathist iraq? Maybee because he can present himself as the "strong leader who can root out povetry and instability"?
Mr Hussein plays his favourite role "Leader of Arab" in court, better than before.
Do you think he has any chance for a comback and might even get elected in the post-baathist iraq? Maybee because he can present himself as the "strong leader who can root out povetry and instability"?
Could Iraqis find themselves voting again for Mr. Hussein? He's laid the groundwork. As a ruler, he identified himself with Arab heroic stereotypes. He dressed as a Bedouin chief, father figure, Arab warrior-king, like Saladin; his propaganda explicitly compared him to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Yes, most Iraqis hated him and now revel in his humiliation.
But if as years pass, poverty and instability continue, some Iraqis will return to revering Mr. Hussein as a mythical strongman who heroically defied invincible American Crusaders. It is a terrifying lesson in the naked power of savage terror and brazen propaganda that sometimes the wanton destructiveness of tyranny ? the slaughter, torture and buffoonery ? are forgotten while the myth of glory enters the popular memory: Shelley's "Ozymandias" in reverse.