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Article: Saddam: Latter-day Jugurtha?(The Last Word)
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- January 12, 2004
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Once upon a time, a ruthless, clever despot I came to power in a desert land by murdering his rival for the throne. He sought the allegiance of a great imperial power, which had once given him military training. He soon displeased his imperial ally by invading a neighboring territory that he claimed as his own. As a result, his imperial overlords branded him a public enemy and dispatched military forces to his desert country to hunt him down. After a war lasting many years, in which the rebel potentate demonstrated greater elusiveness than battlefield savvy, he was betrayed and arrested. He was brought in chains to the enemy capital overseas and publicly humiliated, and he ...