Shiite cleric would "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way it is now."

what hath we wrought...?

National Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR's Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was described in the NPR report as "a moderate" and as a person trying to lead his Shiite followers into practicing peace and reconciliation. He had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and forced into exile. Jenkins asked him: "What would you think if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?" The cleric replied that he'd "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way it is now."

william blum in counterpunch offers a distressing summary of exactly how horrible post-saddam life in iraq really is...

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