Saddam tyranny inseparable from HIS bureaucracy

History teaches that dictators like Saddam Hussein of Iraq

sooner or later provoke wars. It is nice to believe that democracy

triumphs everywhere in the end.  But what an arrogant headline in

USA TODAY on February 13 : " U.S. General would run Iraq ".

        I read somewhere that Saddam -as a TYRANT - patterns

himself after one of the most evil tyrants in human history :

Joseph Stalin .  But that did not stop the Russian people from

fighting so ferociously at Stalingrad.

        The USA TODAY article says : "  a post -Saddam Hussein

Iraq would be run by a U.S. general USING MANY OF THE BUREAUCRATS

WHO ADMINISTER THE COUNTRY NOW " ( my emphasis ).

        Just a few years after the Russian Revolution one of its

most brilliant leaders , Leon Trotsky, explained in his classic

" The Revolution Betrayed "   the relationship between the

corrupt " socialist " bureaucracy and its leader Stalin.

        The privileged bureaucracy needed Stalin as much as

Stalin needed the bureaucracy.  Trotsky  opposed terrorism

as a political strategy.  He believed  that if Stalin were

assassinated, the corrupt Soviet bureaucracy would have created

a NEW Stalin  .

        To  remove Saddam Hussein of Iraq and keep HIS bureaucracy

intact would be to betray any possibility of even minimal

democracy in that miserable country.

          The American Caesar would find himself working with

corrupt Saddam henchmen to suppress a real democratic political

revolution in Iraq.

         Clearly DEMOCRACY is not the goal of a U.S. war against

Iraq. Imagine those poor people being ruled by some Texas cowboy

general !  AS an old 60s song warns : " Meet the new boss- same

as the old boss !  "

         I support OLD Europe on this matter of war against

Iraq.  The French are not cowards.  I wonder what their

Noble Prize winning author Albert Camus would think about our

cowboy president, George W. Bush . Camus was the courageous

editor of the anti-Nazi newspaper " Combat " when Germany

occupied France. His book " The Rebel " is still relevant

to world politics today.

        And I myself expect THE ABSURD to triumph once again

in human affairs. The Plague has never really disappeared !