Arab News columnist Fawaz Turki

[darrels joy]

Arab News columnist Fawaz Turki decides he was wrong to oppose the liberation of Iraq:

One need offer no apology for saying that the supreme virtue of this war is that Saddam Hussein was gotten rid of. Period. The very man who had established arguably the closest approximation of a genuine fascist state in the Arab world, that sustained itself on fear, repression, genocide, cult of personality and wanton murder--a state whose law was that those who rule are the law. . . .

Washington may not succeed in turning Iraq into a "beacon of democracy" but it will succeed, after all is said and done, in turning it into a society of laws and institutions where citizens, along with high-school kids, are protected against arbitrary arrest, incarceration, torture and execution.

[Jerry D]

Joy: WOW! thats a great article, Thanks! and they thought we couldn't change the mind of the Arab Press