Oh yar, I do want to talk about desposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who has been sentenced to death and was executed today.
No doubt he was a cruel dictator, but given his authority, it was inevitable that he abused his power and ruled Iraq with an iron grip... As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It can also be argued it's due to his totalitarian rule that Iraqi did not face the quagmire of troubles that it is experiencing today. And perhaps it was also his bad luck that Iraq is plentiful with oil, causing the Bush Administration to target him.
The American administration is a very pragmatic one, and of course being the world's sole superpower enables them to coin terms and cook up incidents to suit their political purposes. Like Pinochet of Chile, who was perhaps an even greater dictator, and engaged in various human rights abuse and corruption. But since the American government had given him the mandate to rule, he was awarded the freedom to do whatever he desired.
Moving on to another example. After emerging as victors from the Pacific Theatre of War in WWII, the American administration did not persecute anyone from the Japanese Unit 731, a notorious organization which had engaged in the most atrocious of acts. Why? Because the Americans wanted the results from their bloody experiments.
Double standards perhaps, just goes to show that it's often greed that dictates politics...
Rest in peace Saddam.
vitalism reinvented at 7:57 PM
