Does It Make Any Difference?

Spanish daily 'El Pais' published an article which proved that Iraq’s former dictator bargained to leave to exile if he was paid $1 Billion shortly before the U.S.-led occupation to Iraq. The offer has been revealed in a transcript of talks between Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the former's Texas ranch.

The confidential transcript was recorded by the then Spanish Ambassador to the US, Javier Ruperez, at the meeting between the two leaders at Crawford in Texas on February 22, 2003, the daily reported.

According to the tapes, Bush was also dismissive of the then French President Jacques Chirac, saying he "thinks he's Mr. Arab".

Here’s my take on this:

There is no need to remind the world of what Saddam had done against Iraqis. Everybody knows how tyrannical he was. So in my opinion, it worked better for me when he was caught and executed. If Bush had fulfilled his offer, imagine how many Iraqis would have gone mad, since they would have seen all their struggle against the tyranny had gone for nothing.

Paying Saddam $1 billion would have caused a lot of anger against the US more than it is now. He ought to have been caught and executed because that’s what he deserved after widowing women, depriving mothers from their sons, and treating people as if they are a piece of crap. What would have my aunt, whose husband and brother-in-laws were kidnapped by Saddam’s Security, said if she had heard that the one who deprived her and her children from their father got rewarded for his crimes?

Reading the article again, I guess the most pissed people would be the Americans. The majority I guess [correct me if I am wrong] didn’t want their country to invade and occupy Iraq, since Iraq had nothing to do with September 11, unlike Afghanistan where the mastermind of the attacks is hiding. If I were an American, I would have been very angry since Bush has spent more than what Saddam asked for. He asked Congress to approve a total of $725 billion in military spending while cutting nearly $80 billion from health and education programs last February, according to the British Timesonline. Recently, the Boston Globe reported that The United States has already allocated more than $500 billion on the day-to-day combat operations of what are now 190,000 troops and a variety of reconstruction efforts.

Let’s speak hypothetically, if Saddam’s offer was fulfilled, would it make any difference? I mean, the main problem started with the foreign terrorists coming from neighboring countries, blowing up their filthy bearded and balloon-belly bodies with explosives against civilians. They were coming anyway whether Saddam was fought or sent to exile. Their main goal was to fight whom they consider the infidels which included not only the Americans but the also the Shiite Muslims. Let’s suppose that that never happened as well, I still think that the situation wouldn’t be better, since the Americans had no real plans before they came. They had no background and no clue about anything in the Iraqi society [Read The Imperial Life in the Emerald City and watch No End In Sight.] So the problems would have still existed.

To conclude, this was something happened in the past. We need to look forward. Looking back at whether Saddam was given money or not won’t solve the problem for both Iraqis and Americans. This new transcript will neither bring Americans their money back, nor will make Iraqis feel any better.

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