Blog Interview With Head Of Kurdish Development Corp.

Rob from SayAnything interviews Bayan Rahman:

Rob: What is your opinion of the invasion of Iraq? Do you think it was justified?

Bayan: Yes, absolutely it was justified. I think you have to remember what life was like under Saddam Hussein. He was a brutal dictator. He controlled Iraq through cruelty and violence. He had children spying on their parents, reporting if their parents ever said anything negative about the government, reporting on their neighbors. He had a campaign of death against the Kurdish people. About 200,000 people disappeared in that campaign and now we’re finding the mass graves so we know where those people ended up. He used chemical weapons against people of Kurdistan. In one attack 5,000 Kurds were killed in the town of ---- so this was Iraq under Saddam Hussein so of course it was a liberation. It is a liberation and that’s actually why I’m here in the United States. I’m here to thank the people of America for liberating Iraq and for giving us our first real opportunity to have democracy in our country.

I'm not sure if "merely" removing a vicious thug from power, and incidentally giving the Kurds their own semi-autonomous homeland, is enough to justify the cost in lives of the Iraqi invasion.

It certainly weighs in the balance, though.

PS: I still quit. What's with Michael thanking me?

posted by Ace at 12:10 PM

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