I know that no LBO-er thinks Saddam was a hero. My point is just this: the vastly greater level of resistance is explained by two factors--though the new strongman in town is actually quite a bit stronger, he's also 1) far less brutal, and 2) a foreign Christian (or a "collaborator").
-- Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <jbujes at covad.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "I never saw anything like this."
> Luke, what's the point? There is no one on writing to this list who
> thinks Saddam was a hero. The U.S. thought he was our man for a while,
> cover of Time magazine, etc. Not any more I guess.
>
> I don't think Stephen was quoting "approvingly". It's a telling quote:
> it describes a level of resistance that the witness calls unprecedented.
> You can believe him or not.
>
> I think it's clear that the Iraqis will not stomach imperialist rule,
> not even if it's mediated by home-grown troops. That's all.
>
> If China invaded the U.S. tomorrow, after a decade of indiscriminate
> bombings, and then managed to find some American troops to do some of
> their killing for them, we might fight those troops too.
>
> Joanna
>
> Luke Weiger wrote:
>
> >Stephen Phillion approvingly quoted the following:
> >
> >
> >
> >>"I was 17 years in the old army," Taha said. "I never saw anything like
> >>this."
> >>
> >>http://makeashorterlink.com/?A6DD52FB8
> >>
> >>
> >
> >After piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses, Saddam was able to get
the
> >"resistance is futile" message across loud and clear.
> >
> >-- Luke
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