Saddam Thinks U.S. Will Beg for His Help
Saddam Hussein believes the United States will have to seek his help to quell the bloody insurgency in Iraq and open the way for U.S. forces to withdraw.
In fact, Saddam even said this “These puppets in the Iraqi government that the Americans brought to power are helpless. They can’t protect themselves or the Iraqi people. The Americans will certainly come to me, to Saddam Hussein’s legitimate leadership and to the Iraqi Baath Party, to rescue them from their huge quandary.”
Some do argue that the Bush administration should recognize the “hard reality” that the U.S. invasion of Iraq delivered the mostly secular Arab nation into the hands of Shiites strongly sympathetic to their larger Iranian neighbor. And this argument even came up the other day with the support of Hussni Mubarak, the Egyptian president.
We should acknowledge that Saddam served as a counterbalance to Iranian power during 1980-88 war with Iran, a conflict in which the United States and others backed Iraq.
Source: Associate Press
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