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Thread ID: 15169 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-09-30
2004-09-30 21:43 | User Profile
From Zaman.org: Saddam to Declare Candidacy for Iraqi Elections Overthrown Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was arrested by US forces last December, reportedly plans to run as a candidate in the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 2005. Saddam's lawyer defends that the ambiguity in Iraq will favor Saddam at the polls. Stefano remarked that a recent Gallup poll indicates that 42 percent of the Iraqi people want their former leader back.
Source: [url]http://www.zaman.org/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20040921&hn=12424[/url]
From Editor & Publisher.com: "I heard an educated Iraqi say today that if Saddam Hussein were allowed to run for elections he would get the majority of the vote. This is truly sad...."
Making clear what can only, at best, appear between lines in her published dispatches, Fassihi concluded, "One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation. For those of us on the ground it's hard to imagine what if any thing could salvage it from its violent downward spiral. The genie of terrorism, chaos and mayhem has been unleashed onto this country as a result of American mistakes and it can't be put back into a bottle."
Source: [url]http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000650551[/url]
So, a significant number of Iraqis, having been ruled by both Jorge Bush and Saddam Hussein, have apparently decided that Saddam is preferable. Well, they've had experience with both, so who's to say who's right?