Sunday, May 30, 2004

New Iraq®

I keep wondering if we won't eventually see the new and improved Saddam. Maybe that's why they shaved him and cleaned him up when they got him out of that spider hole.

Or maybe something close.

So it does indeed look like we will have a return of "sovereignty" to Iraq at the end of the month -- CIA-style sovereignty, that is, leading, I suspect, to the emergence of a Sunni-dominated government that represents a melding of the pre-Saddam Baath Party and the military dictatorship that preceded it, albeit with a new pro-USA flair.

As I said in my earlier post: It looks like things are finally getting back to normal.
Billmon post

If we can just get all this fighting stopped, we'll have what we wanted all along - a new Saddam who behaves like the old Saddam before the old Saddam got out of our control, and then we can get those military bases set up.