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>Occupation Watch Bulletin
>December 16, 2003
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>Below we highlight several important articles posted recently on the www.occupationwatch.org website. Please help us spread the word about the Occupation Watch Center and our website by forwarding this bulletin to friends, family, email lists, and so on. Instructions for people who want to join the mailing list are at the bottom of the bulletin.
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>US troops captured Saddam Hussein on Saturday, December 13th, 2003. A tyrant who was callously supported by the US and European allies in the 1980's, but then ran afoul of his erstwhile sponsors when he invaded Kuwait in 1990, Hussein will certainly not be missed by the Iraqi people.
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>Will the capture of Saddam Hussein mark the end of "a dark and painful era" for Iraqis, as President Bush asserted in his first public statement after the event? We tend to think not. Robert Fisk, the Arabic-speaking reporter of the Independent of London, remarks that "more and more Iraqis were saying before Saddam's capture that the one reason they would not join the resistance to US occupation was the fear that - if the Americans withdrew - Saddam would return to power":
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>http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2193 >
>Fisk predicts, "now that fear has been taken away. So the nightmare is over - and the nightmare is about to begin. For both the Iraqis and for us." The sentiment is echoed by long-time Iraqi opponents of Saddam Hussein. Sami Ramadani eloquently discusses what is in store for Iraqis in coming months, with a prediction that "resistance to occupation will grow":
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>http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2200 >
>In coming days the Bush administration will inundate the public with a high dose of congratulatory statements from the Bush administration. Behind the triumphalism, the reality of an ugly occupation continues.
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>While the mainstream press paid little attention to an event about which the Occupation Watch Center is particularly proud, readers should take note that some parents of U.S. personnel serving in Iraq traveled to Baghdad on a trip organized in part by Occupation Watch. Read the testimony of several returning family members, all calling for US troops to be called back home:
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>http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2201 >http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2157 >
>And lest we forget, as it is with any imperial adventure, "to the victors, the spoils". Even supporters of the occupation now recognize that corporate predators closely linked to the Bush administration -- foremost among them, Bechtel, Halliburton and the large oil companies -- have acted beyond any public accountability:
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>http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2153 >
>After its earlier cautious support of the war, The New York Times, a major mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, took stock of the abysmal state of the Iraqi occupation in The Timesí editorial of December 13th, entitled "The Story Gets Worse":
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>http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2171 >
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