Iraqi leader

Mr. Saddam Hussein may have been a devil, a monster created by the West who flouted his own creators. But the Geneva Convention, if we are to believe in the words of US Defence Minister Mr. Rumsfeld, protects him from being what the champion journalist Christiana Amanpour termed on CNN as 'a caged animal' on the television. If we are to believe in the justice and transparency of the West, why the Iraq Governing Council members, who later ascribed him as tired and haggard, were allowed shedding their prickliness toward Mr. Hussein when he was under custody.

When the President of the occupying country says that Mr. Hussein should pay an 'ultimate penalty', we see no difference between the comment of the most powerful man on earth and that of a puppet member of the Governing Council who very mirthfully set a timeframe for the execution of Saddam Hussein. Please don't blame me if I lose faith in Western democracies seeing the rudimentary images of the Western democracy for the last couple of years. The countries fostering the seeds of democracy hoodwink us consistently heralding inconsistent purposes to wage a war to satisfy their abhorrence to the ruler of a particular country.

We came to know that in Iraq Saddam had stockpiled massive weapons of mass destruction that could be activated in just 45 minutes. That was the prime reason for which the US and the UK attacked Iraq compelling (UN Chief Weapons Inspector) Mr. Hans Blix to sit idle after just three and a half month's search in Iraq only with a few hundred people. Now, the US and the UK have been lingering in Iraq for just over nine months with around two hundred thousand men and women finding Saddam, Qusay and Uday as well as 54 wanted men and one wanted woman, and not stumbling on any weapon of mass destruction. We have been hearing so much about the capture of Saddam Hussein, hundreds of raison d'être for the 'ultimate penalty' for Mr. Hussein, everyday reports and comments on BBC and CNN about his ample 'cruelty', we are kept in the murk of the desertion from the objectives of the 2nd full-fledged war in the three years of the new millennium.

When Mr. Bush says something, I believe we ought to keep that in our shadowy memory with reverence, since the most powerful man on earth has proved himself to be a man of words, especially when he needs to go an extra mile in order to herald 'justice', no mater how violent and bloody that mile's journey may turn out to be. It is time Mr. Bush matches up his justices with his words that should never contain freedom.

We have seen his freedom in Samara, Ramadi, Fallujah, Tikrit, and in parts of Baghdad, where people have been facing justice for the sin of expressing support for their 'disoriented' president - a justice carried out by additional helicopters, tanks, fighting vehicles and hundreds of soldiers that have been deployed to quash protests by the supporters of Mr. Hussein.