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When Saddam was casting about for someone to put down the worst rebellion he has ever faced, he needed to look no farther than his own family. Cousin Majid ordered a poison-gas attack on restive Kurds in 1988, killing 5,000 and earning him the nickname "the butcher of Kurdistan." Last September, Majid, who like Saddam has a limited education and little sophistication about the outside world, was made governor of occupied Kuwait so that he would suppress the resistance. He was responsible for the summary execution of its members and the abduction of an estimated 2,000 Kuwaitis...
...Arab psyche's mixture of bravado, rhetoric and religious conviction. Arabs denied Israel's existence for decades and believed that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had a trick up his sleeve when his air force was destroyed in the first hours of the 1967 war. Fouad Subhi, a butcher at the Baqa'a refugee camp near Amman, still puts his faith in Saddam: "After he rebuilds Iraq, he will try to liberate Palestine again...
Many have said that war is hell. If war is hell, who is the culpable evildoer? Saddam Hussein calls George Bush "Satan," and Bush calls Hussein the "Butcher of Baghdad." So who is the real warlock? To the dismay of the unequivocal supporters of either Hussein or Bush, both epithets are correct in that both are responsible for much of the world's recent fiendishness. This is obviously distasteful news to our self-censoring listeners who ignore their own country's fallacies. But facts are facts...
...also invaded another state (Panama), waged war against another country (Nicaragua), and totes an equally menacing chemical weapon (nuclear warheads). The point is that if you are on the receiving end of any one of these demonic policies, it makes very little difference whether the imperial "Satan" or the "Butcher of Baghdad" is at "command and control...
...fall into Hussein's or Bush's bloody hands once we condemn one set of crimes and overlook another. By choosing between the crimes of "Satan" and the "Butcher," we compromise the meaning of law and justice. In order to avoid this trap, we need to create an authentic "world legal order" that expands the concept of the "national interest" to the "global interest" which consistently applies the principles of international law to all countries--big or small...