December 13, 2004
What a difference a year makes
From Luke Baker:
What a difference a year makes. Or then again, maybe not.
Last December, a haggard-looking Saddam Hussein was pulled from a hole in the ground not far from his ancestral home of Tikrit and taken into custody by jubilant U.S. troops.
President Bush hailed it as a breakthrough, saying he expected his arch foe to be tried, convicted and put to death -- adding that would be up to the Iraqi courts.
"In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over," Bush declared in a television address the day after the capture on Dec. 13.
"A hopeful day has arrived. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq."
A year on, twice as many U.S. soldiers have been killed by insurgents since Saddam's capture than in the period before, and thousands of Iraqis have died. There are fears elections on Jan. 30 could be derailed by the mayhem.
Link to Reuter's article...
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