Riverbend posts about the Saddam show trial.
Iraq saw demonstrations against and for the verdict. The pro-Saddam
demonstrators were attacked by the Iraqi army. This is how free our
media is today: the channels that were showing the pro-Saddam
demonstrations have been shut down. Iraqi security forces promptly
raided them.Welcome to the new Iraq.
On the subject of this post, Riverbend adds:
A final note. I just read somewhere that some of the families of dead American
soldiers are visiting the Iraqi north to see ‘what their sons and daughters died
for’. If that’s the goal of the visit, then, “Ladies and gentlemen- to your
right is the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, to your left is the Dawry refinery… Each of
you get this, a gift bag containing a 3 by 3 color poster of Al Sayid Muqtada Al
Sadr (Long May He Live And Prosper), an Ayatollah Sistani t-shirt and a map of
Iran, to scale, redrawn with the Islamic Republic of South Iraq. Also… Hey you!
You- the female in the back- is that a lock of hair I see? Cover it up or stay
home.”
And that is what they died for.
