[Errigal]

I see Saddam's hanging as the last step in the elimination of Iraq as a state which can threaten Israel. The only “crime against humanity” the people in Washington cared about was the financial support Saddam gave to Palestinian families punished by Israelis and the Scud missiles he fired at them during the Gulf War. These were crimes which could never be forgiven.

The world’s public may be told the goal is to bring democracy to the Muslim world but I think the goal is much simpler. In order to make Israel secure, the faction dominating the United States want the Middle East to be like sub-Saharan Africa with nothing but rival warlords from Jordan to the Indian border. The same way the old regime in South Africa had no serious military rival, Israel’s colonists want to sit on the Mediterranean coast with no real threat at their back. Saddam’s killing is very much part of that plan.