Anybody see a documentary on Cinemax called "Uncle Saddam". From the info on it, a documentary film maker came to make a documentary about the effects of the embargo on the people of Iraq. This apparently got him access to Saddam and others. The result of the footage ended up being a documentary about Saddam instead. The mafiaso reference seems well deserved.
At one point, bragging about all the great things they have built, apparently somebody brings up the question of food for the masses and his answer is something to the effect of, 'we do things so well. If we put our efforts into providing food, we will do it so well, we will have too much food' - or something like that.
But, the people seem to love him. Much in the way that many in Cuba love Castro in spite of his record.
In spite of his strong-handed techniques, nepotism, and overall poor running of his country, why should we care? Why now? When he was killing his people way back before Gulf War I, we knew and didn't care enough to step in. So it seems to me that claiming our concern for Iraqi citizens has nothing to do with anything. Do we care that he's a dictator? Is that why he must be deposed? So what? It's his country. Why don't we depose other dictators like Castro? Because he has WOMD? Does that make him dangerous? Sure. But we have them too, meaning we're dangerous to other lands and cultures. Should they depose our leaders? Should we be forced to disarm?
Things strike me as terribly wrong about war with Iraq. It seems to be a foregone conclusion whether the weapons inspectors find evidence of current WOMD programs or not. So it seems to me like the WOMD thing is a smoke screen. We decided long ago that we were going to go to war against Iraq. Sure, Saddam is a bad guy. But since when did we go around starting wars with every bad-guy ruler in the world? Especially when they have not struck first?
