Trials and errors in Iraq
By Richard Cohen (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/05/06):
The trial of Saddam Hussein has resumed. It has been going on for seven months -- a day here, a day there -- providing the former Iraqi dictator the chance to make the odd speech, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court and, in short, to turn the entire proceeding into a metaphor for the American occupation of Iraq: chaotic, endless and, worse, meaningless. The way things are going, the trial is more about George Bush than Saddam Hussein.
How this has happened is almost beyond comprehension. The Bush administration was out to make two points, one political, the other ideological.… Seguir leyendo »