Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Kanan Makiya: "All Levels of the Iraqi Government Were Complicit." - '...The Baath Party cultivated a culture of fear when it seized power in Iraq in 1968. Fear became an important and constant feature of Iraqi politics. It is difficult, even two years after the regime's overthrow, to underestimate the impact upon Iraq's population of three decades of fear inculcated on a daily basis by virtually every state institution...' (Link)
