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Morality in Iraq, then and now - -

By Jim Hoagland

Morality in Iraq, Then and Now

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Change is news, and the important news from the second trial of Saddam Hussein is this: The U.S. government is helping expose the ex-dictator's genocidal assault on Kurdish tribesmen instead of helping hide it.

Welcome the change. But do not rush past the original malfeasance: U.S. officials were directly involved two decades ago in covering up and minimizing the horrifying details that were finally spread on the legal record in a Baghdad courtroom last week. In a long history of U.S. involvement in Iraq stained by official mistakes, betrayals and misunderstandings, the initial coverup of Hussein's Anfal campaign is among its darkest moments.

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Saddam Hussein in the dock at his trial last week. (By Daniel Berehulak -- Associated Press)
» Eugene Robinson Discussion of the march toward another war is too much to take on a lazy Friday in August. Let's wallow instead in the tabloid news.
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