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Phillip Knightley: Iraq chose Saddam for good reason. The West needs a history lesson
They've been bombed, lied to, manipulated. They will neither forgive nor forget. Just watch how the next generation reacts
04 August 2002
Before Tony
Blair joins the new crusaders trying to impose a "regime change", a
Western "settlement" on Iraq, he should at least look at the historical
facts that explain the rise of nationalist leaders such as Saddam
Hussein. And while he is at it, since he is good at empathy, he might
try looking at Britain through Iraqi eyes. Seen from Baghdad, the
British have bombed and invaded their country, lied to them,
manipulated their borders, imposed on them leaders they did not want,
kidnapped ones they did, fixed their elections, used collective terror
tactics on their civilians, promised them freedom and then planned to
turn their country into a province of India populated by immigrant
Punjabi farmers. Small wonder that the author Said Aburish said to me
recently: "If you think Saddam Hussein is a hard man to deal with, just
wait for the next generation of Iraqi leaders."
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