Happy New Year Saddam.

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

-Pastor Martin Niemöller



So the tyrant is dead. Captured, tormented, tried and finally killed, at the behest of another. But do not lose hope, all who dare to defy tyranny, in one form or another. There will always be a Saddam. There will always be an Osama. There will always be someone to take the blame. Just as there will always be someone doing the blaming.

What Bush has done, needs no repeating here. Anyone with access to Farenheit 911 or Loose Change (2nd Edition) knows. What is amazing is the indifference India feels towards the death of a person who was the ruler of a nation. We are a country that embodies the very spirit of possibility, and we made no protest to the Big Brother.

He was hanged for atrocities. What atrocities? Getting a lot of people killed. More than the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq? I don't think so.

Saddam was invaded as a distraction. It was a diversion from Afghanistan, when noone fonud Osama, and the deat toll kept mounting with no results. At first it was for WMDs. Then Support for Al-Quaeeda. Then atrocities.

Bunch of hypocrites. Messing around with another country to hide their own failures of government. Pointing to outside the country with big flashing signs, to lure away the eye from the disasters inside.

It has been the policy of every government, everywhere, everytime. Whenever something bad happens due to your incompetence, and you can't control it, make up a bigger danger somewhere else, point to it, and let the blunder fade away.

Kargil was the same thing. Somalia. Kosovo. Chechnya. Israel's innumerable wars. Hamas and Palestine. Egypt/Syria/Jordan's conflicts with Israel. Bangladesh, the LTTE...

Everytime something goes wrong, we are pointed out one of these, and given guilt and concern to feel.

I wonder if Saddam is happy wherever he is. Can't be worse than living in your own country, being tried by invaders, for crimes that had nothing to do with them. How can anyone stand all these holier-than-thou global evangelists anyway? The cheek of them all....

Wake up. They came for Osama. They came for Saddam. They've been bedamning Castro and Chavez. They want to set up puppets and bootlickers in countries they invade. Everywhere a hint of self-reliance, a bit of spine appears on the scene, there you have GI Joes to the 'rescue'.

The world's policeman has become the world's bully. And we are all keeping quiet, except for a few like Venezuela. Even half of Americans apologized for voting Bush back into power.

And still there are people who keep praising his 'statesmanship'.

Farenheit 911 should be made compulsory-viewing in the schools and colleges of every country that claims to foster free-thinkers and mature mindsets. We will not be bullied any longer. We will not silently go under the tide. We will no be quiet, and suffer one by one. We will be heard. We will make sure we are heard. And if they try to drown our voices in the noise of meaningless platitudes or hypocritic cliches, then by God we will crush them. For then, the tide of time would have turned, and time will, finally, be on our side.