Monday, September 29, 2003
A little reminder from Robert Fisk to put Saddam Hussein's evilness in perspective:
'Then we have my favourite line. "We were getting rid of one of the most terrible, repressive regimes in the world's history." [quote from Tony Blair] Well, I've seen the mass graves and I've met the torture victims and I've been to Halabja and I was denouncing Saddam's wickedness when the Foreign Office were telling a former editor of mine that I was being too harsh on Saddam. But as for one of the most terrible, repressive regimes in the "world's history ..." Well, we'll just forget the Roman Empire with its system of mass slavery and crucifixion and we'll pass on Ghengis Khan and all the Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, the Inquisition, the anti-semitic Tsars, Mussolini's Fascist Italy, Stalin's Soviet Union and that little man with the moustache who caused a wee problem between 1939 and 1945.'
Andrew 8:48 AM : |
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