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...seeks to clearly understand how Saddam??s political ideology informs his apparently reckless and irrational choices. With the focus of debate on Iraq’s weapons, we fail to see that Saddam??s ideology of ongoing bloody revolution and amoral political ascendancy prevent any possibility for peace without fundamental regime change...
Developing a deeper understanding of the construction of Iraqi identity under Saddam??s Baath regime would help other nations know how to deal with Saddam, Iraq, and potential regime change...
...Saddam??s eldest son Uday anticipates and accepts no possibility for peace, saying, “Our conflict with America will continue for the next 20 years due to our ideological, religious and fundamental differences.” The expectation and provocation of armed and bloody struggle, expressed in revolutionary terms, is one of the foremost characteristics of the ruling Baath party ideology...
...evolving Iraqi Baathism has integrated a tendency to deify President Hussein. Ofra Bengio’s incisive look at Iraqi politics, Saddam??s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, describes Saddam??s rule as a horrible regime that uses terror to cow and coerce the Iraqi people into messianic idolatry of His Excellency. In recent years, despite the broad pauperization and Iraqi civilians, Saddam is increasingly compared with the Prophet Mohammed. Bengio further describes Saddam??s use of the media, artists and poets as propaganda peddlers who conform history and truth to Saddam?...
...journal Nature last month arguing that scientific boycotts should be undertaken only in the most extreme circumstances. Indeed, the International Council for Science forbids scientists from participating in boycotts because science is supposed to be an apolitical activity. (This is a hopeful, if slightly naïve view. Saddam??s germ warfare scientists might prove an exception...