Was Saddam afraid? Who writes history?

Any cognitive human being facing execution can be expected to be apprehensive. John Brown, who led an aborted raid on Harper's Ferry, asked as his last request of the executioner at his hanging "don't make me stand on the threshold too long". The U.S. general in charge of that hanging made John Brown stand on the threshold for 8 full minutes listening to the drums' cadence before he ordered the trap door dropped.

History has some perspective now on John Brown's quite "legal" hanging. History will no doubt judge Saddam Hussein harshly. It already does. History will also judge George W. Bush harshly IMO. Nor will history wait until George W. Bush is dead to figure out whether he did the right or the wrong thing by ordering the invasion and occupation of Iraq. History starts NOW. George W. Bush is doing the wrong things, and history will record them as such. George W. Bush is about to compound his strategic error by escalating his failed war on Iraq.

The victors often write the history books. The United States will not be the victor in its war in Iraq.

Take the example of whether or not Saddam was "afraid" at his execution. It depends on who you believe. I say that Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and his videographer Ali Al Massedy will be among those that flee Iraq when the U.S. occupation of that country collapses.

Anyone who takes this route should not be afraid By fubar [Needlenose] Dec 30 2006 - 12:41pm