I don't like Saddam Hussein personally of course, but in this torrent of degrading representations, can we just reflect a moment to get some sort of perspective on what would be real justice on a world scale.
This man could have been living in luxury in exile with his family with access probably to tens of millions of dollars according to all the secret international bribes at the beginning of the year. The fact that he was found in a foxhole within a short distance of one of his palaces, suggests no cause for contempt. Rather it suggests a degree of determination and resilience that is probably part of a consensus shared with at last tens of thousands of other Irtaqi people, who not for wholly bad reasons, supported the old regime, and who are carrying on resistance now in all sorts of different ways against the imperialist occupation. The Iraqi Communist Party has the right to celebrate his fall, but those of us in the imperialist heartlands have no reason to rejoice at the degrading representations of him which do not address the real contradictions. At least Rumsfeld has had to accept Hussein should have de-facto prisoner of war status and that the Pentagon is not competent to interrogate him. A small victory against the hegemonist psy-ops war. Chris Burford London
