Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
This is not Saddam
Wed Jul 7, 2004 12:40
64.140.159.135
This is not Saddam
07/07/2004 11:54
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/13298_Saddam.html
The man the Americans are parading is not the real Saddam Hussein
When a liar is clever and careful, he is convincing because he is plausible
and covers all his tracks. However, the longer the lie is spun out, the more
clues are left. The Bush regime has been neither clever, nor careful nor
plausible in its disastrous foreign policy, which culminates in parading a
"Saddam" before the cameras who is certainly not the real Saddam Hussein,
ex-President of Iraq.
The first attempts at justifying the illegal act of butchery called the Second
Gulf War started in December 2002 when documents were forged by British and
American intelligence operationals, trying to create a link between Niger and
Baghdad, which was supposed to be buying yellowcake uranium for its "active
nuclear programme". In the event, Mohammed El Baradei, the Director of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, saw the scam when the papers were
presented to him. He said the letterhead was wrong, the names were wrong and
the signatures were wrong. Those who showed the papers to him maintained a
sullen and embarrassed silence and the issue was forgotten.
Suddenly, Washington stopped talking about Baghdad's "active nuclear programme"
and concentrated instead on its Weapons of Mass Destruction and its chemical
and biological warfare programme.
"Magnificent intelligence" was presented by Colin Powell at the UN Security
Council, complete with maquettes and satellite photographs of "mobile chemical
facilities". Soon afterwards, when the international UNMOVIC teams were unable
to find the WMD, the Bush administration declared that "we know where they
are".
So the act of butchery was launched. In the event, no weapons of mass
destruction were found, nor even the production facilities and certainly no
active nuclear programme. However, since nobody has spoken about these lies
for a year, public opinion has forgotten them.
Next was the story of the murder of Saddam Hussein's sons, Ouday and Qusay,
who were mysteriously together (when common sense would tell them to split up)
with another man and a boy in a farmstead in the middle of a plain west of
Baghdad. The story went as follows: hundreds of troops and a fleet of
helicopter gunships finally killed the four after several hours of fighting.
This story sounded like the child trying to justify the fact that he had
forgotten his homework, claiming that the dog ate it, the house caught fire
and that someone stole his school bag on the way into the classroom. The
photographs were not shown to the public immediately and when they did appear,
Iraqis across the country shook their heads in disbelief, claiming that these
were not Saddam's sons.
Then came the pictures of the hitherto clean-shaven, articulate, educated and
proud Saddam Hussein, crawling out of a hole, disheveled, bearded and dirty,
supposedly in December but with the date trees laden with mature fruits, which
only takes place in August in that part of the world. Another strange
occurrence.
The supposed Saddam was shown by an unconvincing Paul Bremer who declared
"Ladies and Gentlemen, (pause) we got him!" The pause was telling, an unsaid
"I am going to tell a lie". When the ex-President of Iraq's wife was taken to
Qatar to see him, she burst out laughing and immediately said that this
was not her husband. Had the Americans fallen for their own trap, or were a
small group of Americans fooling the others?
Curiously, the Saddam shown by the Americans has a long beard after capture
and continues to wear an unruly beard now, whereas Saddam Hussein the
president was always clean-shaven and with a moustache. Why the beard now? To
hide the fact that he is not the real Saddam? To hide the jaw line?
Now, the Holy Grail is offered by Joe Vialls, who sent his article "Shaddam
Shaddam's new Vaudeville Scam" to Pravda.Ru this morning. In this piece he
points out that all photographers were banned from photographing "Saddam" in
court for security reasons but then the CNN arrived in the person of
Christiane Amanpour, who immediately started shooting hundreds of metres of
video footage, which was then transformed into stills.
Here was the mistake. As Mr. Vialls points out, the real Saddam Hussein had a
fine set of teeth, completely even, in which the upper jaw closed over the
lower (overbite). The figure paraded in court, as it is easy to see, has
highly irregular lower teeth and a condition called "underbite", when the
lower teeth close in front of the upper.
Touche. Dental records cannot lie. The set of teeth of the President of Iraq
and the set of teeth of the man paraded before the cameras pretending to be
Saddam Hussein are wholly and totally different.
The man they have in court is not the real Saddam Hussein. Yet another lie by
this Bush administration is exposed. How much lower can this clique of
criminals sink?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
http://english.pravda.ru/author/_78.htmld
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