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Iraq
The black book of Saddam Hussein
2005-12-05
WITH the trial of Saddam Hussein under way, those in the God-damn-America camp find themselves uncomfortably wedged. Should they justify their opposition to the war by downplaying Saddam's crimes while sheeting home blame for the present turmoil to the US and its allies? Or do they opt for the defence of moral equivalence, conceding that Saddam was indeed a monster but those US presidents who once backed his regime, including George H.W. Bush, are the real monsters.

The best riposte to this warped analysis is a scholarly and sober 700-page volume recently published in France, of all places. Le Livre Noir de Saddam Hussein (The Black Book of Saddam Hussein) is a robust denunciation of Saddam's regime that does not fall into the trap of viewing everything in Iraq through a US-centric prism. The writers - Arabs, Americans, Germans, French and Iranian - have produced the most comprehensive work to date on the former Iraqi president's war crimes, assembling a mass of evidence that makes the anti-intervention arguments redundant.

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Posted by:Sleamp Ulenter4345

#1  This is the second iteration of an excellent idea. First time around was "The Black Book of Communism" by Stephane Courtois et al, a group of French historians who had access to the KGB archives after the Fall. Now one about Saddam,also out of France, with all the available info in one volume, suitable for bedside reading or vigoously rubbing onto ignorant Liberal noses.
Posted by: Grunter   2005-12-05 12:11  

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