Why George Bush cannot match Sonia Gandhi?
By M.R. Narayan Swamy. India, 11:32 AM IST George W. Bush finally had his revenge as he slept through the judicial murder of Saddam Hussein, who had famously celebrated with gunshots when Papa Bush’s term as US president ended without securing the Iraqi strongman’s ouster. Once Bush junior decided that all was fair in war, lies about WMDs included, Saddam stood no chance. He paid with his throne in 2003 and his neck three years later, hanged to death in the same manner he himself presided over so many executions during the quarter century he ruled Iraq, first as a darling of Washington and then as a resolute foe. Had Kurds or Shias dragged out Saddam and done him to death, it could have been explained as an act of vengeance by communities whose members he tortured and killed. But even making allowances for the Internet age, they may not have filmed Saddam’s execution for the world to see. Only those who humiliated a once proud Arab nation by capturing on movie a petty soldier examining
