Bushes and Husseins: an operatic fantasy (LTTE)

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Bushes and Husseins: an operatic fantasy

In killing Saddam Hussein's two sons (front page, July 23), American forces have successfully played out the family drama begun under the first Bush administration.

The volley of violence, whereby Mr. Hussein's assassination attempt on the first President Bush was answered by the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein, suggests histrionics worthy of an opera plot.

The deaths of two Iraqis, targeted for assassination by the most powerful country on earth, must seem a gratuitous gesture to those (Iraqis and Americans alike) who have lost family members in the Iraq war.

One question: While President Bush enacts an operatic fantasy, who will attend to the real business of the world? Many thousands in Liberia, for example, would like an answer soon.


MATTHEW C. GARRETT
San Francisco, July 23, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/opinion/L25IRAQ.html

[trof]

1. come ON, Fat Lady.

Time to start your aria.
;-)