sábado, 31 de diciembre de 2016

Payback Time? The Real Cost America Pays for Saddam's Execution

Payback Time? The Real Cost America Pays for Saddam's Execution

 

In the past decade the US' Middle East policy has proven completely
ineffective, RIA Novosti political analyst Alexander Khrolenko writes.
Ten years after Saddam Hussein's execution US observers recall his
prophetic words: "You’ll wish you had me back."



Ten years ago, on December 30, 2006, the fifth President of Iraq and
leader of the Baath political party, Saddam Hussein, was executed by
hanging at Camp Justice, an Iraqi-American military base.

"Hussein's death was supposed to give birth to a new era in Iraq and the
region. But the new era didn't last five minutes," Will Bardenwerper, a
former infantry officer in the United States Army, remarked Friday in
his op-ed for the Washington Post.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612301049145779-us-iraq-saddam/

 A US Marine covers the head of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the US flag before pulling it down in Baghdad's al-Fardous (paradise) square 09 April 2003 as the marines swept into the Iraqi capital and the Iraqi leader's regime collapsed.