Sunday, July 4, 2010
Iraq's nostalgia for Saddam
"Biden, while addressing US troops at Saddam’s old home, remarked that he found it “delicious” that “we are in the middle of this marble palace, making a lie of everything that he [Saddam] stood for.” But the current showdown between Maliki and Allawi in fact belies Biden’s glowing assessment: Iraqi leaders appear nostalgic for the kind of endless and unchallenged power that Saddam was able to wield."
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