<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#80ffff"><FONT SIZE=2>Greg Schofield" <g_schofield@dingoblue.net.au> writes:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#400040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #80ffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Now look at Saddam, just another fascist? Not quite, as unpleasant as his regime is, unlike fascism which was always home grown, always sprung from within the society, we find his dictatorship was imposed on Iraq by the US. Knowing nothing </BLOCKQUOTE>else Saddam looks just as much a brown shirt as any, but knowing the historical </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #80ffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #80ffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">context of his power, he is no brown shirt - just a quisling with attitude.<BR>
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Exactly when and how did the US impose Sadam's dictatorship on Iraq?<BR>
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According to Cockburn's Out of the Ashes, the US was heavily involved in the 1963 Bathist coup, which failed , but they make no similar statement about 1968.<BR>
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