See a Mercedes or BMW tooling through the streets of Baghdad, and a Saddam crony is likely at the wheel.
What do you do when faced with a Saddam?
Soft-liners like Senator Joe Biden and consterned scientists will grump, but their ranks are thinned by the growing prospect of a Saddam or independent terrorist buying or building a nuke that could take out a U.S. city.
That in turn will strengthen the argument that in the absence of a Saddam-like strongman Iraq, with its Sunni and Shia Arabs and Sunni Kurds, can never be a coherent state and must, at best, become a loose federation.
The Detroit Free Press judged the month-long ban "one of the most foolish actions taken by the interim Iraqi government", while the Palestine Chronicle considered it a "Saddam-like move".
I mean, is Iraq a totalitarian dictatorship under a cruel, iron-fisted man because the country is actually an Arab Yugoslavia -- a highly tribalized, artificial state, drawn up by the British, consisting of Shiites in the south, Kurds in the north and Sunnis in the center -- whose historical ethnic rivalries can be managed only by a Saddam-like figure?
Daron Hogg, who at 15 was so beautiful, bore such a likeness to Boy George and had such a winning way with harem pants that he was invited to tour Europe and perform with the band (sort of like a Saddam Hussein impersonator but with more lace), and managed to fool the entire nation of France.
Would you like to interview Saddam now?
This government has an obligation to explain its actions to some of us who don't like Saddam but aren't necessarily convinced that he's directly connected to the worldwide problems of terrorism — there are too many of us.
But to answer your question, no, I would not like to interview Saddam.
