Thursday, April 23, 2009

Six Years On

"Although his relatives in the political establishment try to sweep their reliance on the Americans under the rug, Hakim does not paper over an unpleasant fact that religious parties pretend doesn't exist on the anniversary of Hussein's fall: Iraqis were too weak to overthrow their tormentor.

"Sometimes we say the change came from the Iraqi people, but it didn't come from us," Hakim says, perched in his chair with a green Koran, a laptop and a printer on his plain wooden desk.

Hakim wears thick tinted glasses and an inky black turban, and his face is framed by a frothy white beard. A green Islamic scarf drapes his shoulders. Speaking about the U.S.-led invasion, he becomes animated and compares the country before that to a drowning man.

"God made the stranger attack this strong regime, and we will not forget the good deeds of the Americans," he says. "We can't neglect or ignore this role
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If you can stomach it, there are videos (chapters 1 through 4) here showing some of the atrocities from that nightmarish era.

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