Saddam's swinging corpse invites a comparison with another infamous, newly- deceased, sociopathic strongman: Chile's General Augusto Pinochet. Both owed their acension to power to the CIA and Friends in the Highest Places in the US. Each owed their tenuous control over their people to the liberal use of murder, torture and mayhem. Both were stridently anti-communist and turned to the US frequently for military assistance; requests which Washington fell all over itself to fufill, albiet covertly.
Sure they were Sonofabitches...but they were OUR sonofabitches, after all!
But history, as they say, is written by the winners. And the putative winners have applied their own curious brand of moral relativism to the Dastardly Duo.
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