June 16, 2003

Did Ribbentrop get to "do" press?

Mohammed al-Douri, Iraq's colorful U.N. ambassador during Saddam's last days, has given an interview with BBC World.

The gist: Saddam deserved to be toppled, but that he "would have preferred" that the Iraqi people rather than US and British military had done the toppling. (Yeah, right...) There's also this:

Mr Douri also told the BBC that right up until the last moment, Saddam Hussein's government did not believe the US-led forces would invade Iraq.

He said he advised Baghdad the threat of war was serious and still cannot explain why they refused to accept it.

The answer to that is, of course, the instructive experience of a decade's worth of, quite literally, getting away with murder.

Isn't this guy a prime candidate for some kind of de-Baathification procedure, a trial, an investigation, something like that? Instead of being given the star treatment and a soapbox for his "anti-colonialist" spin on the new Iraq by the BBC, I mean.

Posted by Dr. Frank at June 16, 2003 05:16 PM | TrackBack
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"Mr Douri also told the BBC that right up until the last moment, Saddam Hussein's government did not believe the US-led forces would invade Iraq."

Even though US-led forces had invaded other countries on other occasions? Hey, he read Hillary's new book!

Posted by: (lowercase) matt at June 17, 2003 05:44 PM