The Death of A Great President

By James Novak

He was a great President and a decent man. He was able to provide education, electricity, food, and running water to the masses. Not only that, but he was a healer and a uniter. He was able to mend the wounds of a country that would otherwise be at war with itself. The nation of Iraq should be mourning the passing of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq at this time is a country that is at war with itself, and there is no end in sight to the sectarian violence that plagues it at this time. When Saddam Hussein was president between 1979 and 2003 he was able to successfully keep the Sunnis and the Shiites in line. He was also able to keep the Kurdish minority in North Eastern Iraq in line. He was so dedicated to keeping them in line that he was even willing to whipe their population off the map in order to achieve those ends.

Some have criticized his great leadership. They would level accusations about the brutal policies of the Republican Guard against Iraqi civilians. They might even discuss how his version of the Eagle Scouts, Fedayeen Saddam tied up people and threw them off roofs. However, these misguided souls fail to notice how great of a humanitarian Saddam erraticated illiteracy, provided free health care to his people (and the Jordanian Muslim missionary Abu Musaab Al Zarqawi), and engaged in social programs that gave the Iraqi people jobs. Saddam knew how to run a country, and whatever misdeeds he may have committed should obviously be ignored in light of this evidence. He should be praised just like the great German Chancellor Adolph Hitler, who killed 6 million Jews, but made the trains run on time.

He fathered two wonderful sons, Uday and Qusay. They too died too young, and only God knows what that country would have been like had they been in power. There are those who might say that they might not be as good for the Iraqi people as Saddam was, but let's be honest, it is near impossible to fill the shoes of that great humanitarian.

Things in Iraq have no chance of ever getting better than they were under his rule, ever. The Arabs are culturally and genetically incapable of governing themselves democratically. Had the American Imperialists never killed the great President Saddam Hussein or his sons, that country would have been a wonderful place to live in for years to come. Allowing the people of Iraq to have a voice of their own was an inhumane and bad idea. I will personally mourn the death of a man who loved the people of Iraq.