The Martyrdom of a Hero
Saddam has whipped out his old Pan-Arab Socialist rhetoric. He has said:
My soul and my existence is to be sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq…
I guess he had planned to donate all of the cash he was holed-up (pun intended) with to precious Palestine.”
I believed that his information minister was the funniest human being alive until I read these words. Then again, it all depends on how you define sacrificing your existence. Is it the kind where you go down fighting for your precious and beloved country? Or is it the more subtle kind of hiding in a hole ?
On a more serious note, negotiations continue on major points of the Iraqi constitution. I will be commenting more later. In the mean time, my heart is with the individuals who must make the hard choices, and also with those who must live by them. Iraqis have proved to be a very brave and resilient people throughout the past several years (well, except for the self-sacrificing ex-leader). These negotiations bear heavily on their future, which I hope will bring brighter days for them.
Abuzachary