Henri Reynard Speaks Out

What Could Give Saddam A Victory?

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Well in a manner of speaking nothing on earth could give that brutal, vicious, ignorant, evil dictator that we have in our sights a victory. Every one of those adjectives describes him accurately, but there are a few that we might have left out. Poopy describes him nicely and my three-year-old granddaughter could understand it. She also gets stinky and dirty completely. Getting out of the three-year-old level of communication for a moment, how about visionary? Yes, you could describe Saddam as a visionary if you leave our western version of sanity out of the equation. Another adjective that might have described Saddam earlier in his career was puppet. If as I have proposed elsewhere our current President resembles Howdy Doody, this is his daddy's Saddam puppet. In fact at the moment he is Poppy's poopy Sad Damn puppet. In a manner of speaking you could also say he was Gandpoppy's stinky dirty poopy Sad Damn puppet since the last three generations of this Bush family have been in the thick of decisions about our foreign puppet operations. Funny that we would pick a member of this clan to clean up part of the mess, oh yeah, we didn't really choose him for that task, did we? Of course there are those who still think we didn't choose him at all. Get over it! Move on? Oh about the puppet clean up program, it is proving to be messier than planned by The Junior Puppeteer.

There have been a lot of penny ante dictators in the world that enjoyed borrowed power, provided by us. Of that whole miserable lot, only Saddam has cast off his strings and lasted for a whole decade. Becoming a thorn in our side is not the way to survival if you used our power to get your power. Oh you can say pretty much anything for public consumption. Rant to your hearts content, but when it comes down to whose interests you are serving with your actions they had better align with ours accurately. That even seems reasonable if you are of the persuasion that other people's right to choose their own government doesn't exist. If only our right to choose our leaders matters then their human rights can be sacrificed for the oil we need. Sad___ puppet, like the Saudi Royal Family and the former Shah of Iran was put in power to provide stability in oil production. Any child reading the history of that area could easily come to this conclusion. The industrialized nations of Europe and the good old USA have manipulated the governments of those three nations, primarily for their own benefit, during the last century.

If we can manipulate those events to our benefit why did we have to fight the first gulf war and why are we fighting this one? Saddam cut his strings carefully and only one at a time. We were possibly asleep at the switch when the nuclear reactor was being built in Iraq, the one destroyed by Israel in an illegal bombing raid. We may have seen the reactor but we had missed the fact that Saddam had broken the string holding his left hand constrained. Then we had the war with Iran to occupy him, and he broke the string on his left foot running away from the Iranian children fighting that war. His limbs still moved pretty much in unison with our dictates, so we didn't bother to replace those strings. Then came the period leading up to Poppy Doody's gulf war and somehow we lost control of the strings on his right side. Some people think those strings were still there; and his attack on Kuwait was designed to give us bases in Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. That could only have happened after a war carefully designed to scare the wits out of the people of those two nations. It had the added value of offering us a chance to test our new weapons systems in combat. If Saddam was stupid enough to fall for that kind of ruse, well, "You can't cheat an honest man" in the immortal words of W.C. Fields. The second half of that sentence, "never give a sucker an even break nor wise-up a chump" seems to describe a lot of our foreign policy.

So how does Saddam gain a victory, and leave a legacy in his part of the world; however tarnished it may be by his bloody system of sustaining his power. If his resistance ignites a true Jihad against the USA it may awaken the sleeping giant of Islamic power. Uniting a billion Moslems in an effort to kick our interests out of their nations once and for all could be quite a legacy even if it can only be won by dying heroically. How could such a monster have the adjective heroic used in his honor? Simple stupid, it is because we treated him as if he was an enemy important enough to destroy with our military power. That is the greatest power on earth. How could anyone who would stand up and fight against that power not be described as heroic?

Certainly David versus Goliath is part of the history of that part of the world. If Saddam can oppose US power for long enough, the Arabic world will be cheering him on, and admiring his heroic stance. How long will that take? Well a lot of moderate Muslim religious leaders are already calling for a Jihad now, and more will likely join that chorus every day. A billion Muslims aligned against our interests, united for the first time in modern history. Why? Because our current President couldn't wait for an old Sad___ puppet to destroy himself in the eyes of the international community, he just couldn't wait. Impatient, Mr. Bush? I can't wait either; for the American people to find out how badly you bungled this one. They still have the right to vote you out of office if they can see the chump behind your heroic posturing. It gets easier all the time!