PRESIDENTS DAY

Malcom Lagauche

Today is Presidents Day in the United States (...) In 2006, the world lost two presidents: Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. The West denigrated both to the point that they were depicted as psychopathic, sadistic subhumans. What was their crime? Trying to keep their countries in intact (...) We know more about Saddam Hussein’s plight because it received more publicity. In 1982, a band of Iraqis who fought on the side of Iran during the Iran-Iraq War, tried to assassinate Saddam. Twenty-four years later, Saddam was hanged by the same traitors. In 1991, Saddam Hussein put down simultaneous insurrections: one by Kurds in the north of Iraq; and one by certain Shia elements in the south of the country who owed their allegiance to Iran. After, Saddam was labeled as a butcher. In late 2003, the U.S. and U.K. announced that more than 400,000 bodies had been found in mass graves in the south of Iraq. On July 18, 2004, Tony Blair admitted to the press that this figure was wrong. There were fewer than 5,000 bodies found and many were those of Iraqi soldiers killed in the U.S. bombing of Iraq in 1991. Not one word of his statement was reported in the U.S. press (...) On Presidents Day, remember the two who died in 2006 for their unpardonable crime: they did not succumb to Washington’s orders....

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