[Peace-discuss] Would Bush do as well?

[Morton K. Brussel]

Apropos of Carl's communication, try this:

http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html


On Jan 6, 2007, at 8:51 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> ["...nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it..." --CGE]
>
>
> NY Times 6 January 2007:
>
>     In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution  
> steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world,  
> formerly that of a convicted dictator, has undergone a resurgence  
> of admiration and awe.
>
>     On the streets, in newspapers and over the Internet, Mr.  
> Hussein has emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and  
> composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him.
>
>     “No one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed,”  
> President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt remarked in an interview with the  
> Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot published Friday and distributed  
> by the official Egyptian news agency. “They turned him into a martyr.”
>
> ===
>
> A comment from a reader of the website Talking Points Memo:
>
>     I would like to refer to the note about Saddam’s changing image  
> in the Arab world. I have lived in the United Arab Emirates for 8  
> years. The other night I was taking a little run into Dubai for a  
> bad burrito (for some strange reason the cooks in Dubai do  
> appalling things to Mexican food) and a beer. My taxi driver,  
> Amjed, a Pakistani who has been driving taxi in Sharjah and Dubai  
> for 25 years, was unusually quiet on this trip. Finally, after we  
> got going on the freeway, he asked me,
>
>     “So, Saddam gone, eh?”
>
>     “Yes,” I answered. “He is dead. He was a bad man. But it won’t  
> change the troubles in Iraq.”
>
>     “He was bad man,” Amjed agreed. “You see?”
>
>     “No. I didn’t see it.”
>
>     “I see on television. He was brave.”
>
>     “I heard that.”
>
>     “He was bad man. In end, he was brave. He was not afraid. In  
> end he was brave man. Was good.”
>
>     I couldn’t think of anything to say to that. We drove on in  
> silence. When we got to the bar, I thanked him, tipped him, walked  
> in, and ordered a cold pint of Stella.
>
> 	###
>
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