Save us from Saddam the sadist

THE EDITOR: With reference to your Editorial March 18 “Waging Foolish War” I beg to differ. For all the wrong reasons, nevertheless, Bush is doing the right thing; Saddam has to go!

Other despotic, tyrannical dictators who think nothing of killing and torture to stay in power will think again. Who would remove Saddam from power if not the USA? The UN? That talk tank? France and Russia are against an attack on Iraq simply because they do business with this murderer and will lose their investments. Tough! Does anyone know of any previous dictator, as cruel and heartless as he may be, who had an official rapist on the wage book specifically to rape the female family members of men Saddam is torturing? He forced the families of his sons-in-law to beat them to death for disloyalty. He cuts up perceived opponents into tiny pieces and puts them in acid baths! The man is a sadist! War is a terrible, terrible thing but if it’s the price we have to pay to remove persons like Saddam from power then it’s the price we have to pay. Let him go into exile with his ill-gotten billions — stolen at the cost of starving Iraqi children, and live in luxurious retirement (like Idi Amin) — and war can yet be averted!

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain