Re: [Marxism] Rightist journalist: Saddam show trial "has put new regime on trial" (Krauthammer thinks he should have been murdered)

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why have we given him control of the stage? We all remember the picture
> of him pulled out of his spider hole. That should be the Saddam Hussein
> we put on trial. Instead, with every appearance, he dresses more
> regally, emerging from cowering captive to ordinary prisoner to
> dictator
> on temporary leave. Now he carries on as legitimate and imperious head
> of state. He plays the benign father of his country, calling the judge
> "son," then threatens the judge's life. Hussein shouts, defies,
> brandishes a Koran. The judge keeps telling him he's out of order. He
> disobeys with impunity, the guards not daring to intervene.


Krauthammer fails to see (or pretends not to see) that the main reason
the trial is going so badly is that the list of offenses resembles so
very closely a list that could be used to put the occupiers on trial.
Since he resembles the invaders so much, it may even satisfy an
emotional need to let him appear well-dressed and in command. After
all, otherwise wouldn't one have to have Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, et al,
in chains and jumpsuits as well?

As it is, they are there as living presences. The viewer imagines them
in dock with him.

Brian Shannon


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