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Article: SADDAM HUSSEIN For Iraq's leader, dignity is the greatest loss
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1991
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Saddam the Great, heir to Nebuchadnezzar, the 20th-century
Saladin, the new Nasser, is facing abject defeat.
His army is being routed. He is suing for peace. The southern
third of his country is occupied by foreign forces. And with the
magnitude of the Iraqi military collapse now undeniable, Arabs who
backed Saddam Hussein are seeing their onetime champion humiliated.
"You have won," the Iraqi president told his soldiers in a radio
address yesterday. "You are victorious."
It was a claim almost everyone had predicted he would make one
day. But the proud words rang hollow in the face of video footage of
surrendering and fleeing Iraqis and news reports of Saddam Hussein
dropping his claim to ...