Iraq (2004) | The United States Should Reject an Imperialist Role in Iraq

As Iraq is liberated [from the rule of Saddam Hussein], the Iraqi people and the U.S.-led Coalition1 face the task of creating a new government in Baghdad.

The short-term aim of such a government is to put the shattered nation together again. The longer-term aim should be genuine democratization, so no future tyrant can emerge.

Few people in the outside world, even among our Arab brethren, fully understand the depth of our sufferings at the hands of Saddam Hussein, known to Iraqis as “the Vampire” (al-Saffah). An Iraqi proverb says: He who is watching the club...

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