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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Nick Cohen</title>
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		<title>A Liberal&#8217;s Anguish</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, it was still the right thing to do. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/nick-cohen/a-liberals-anguish/saddam-hussein_2038047c/" rel="attachment wp-att-180016"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180016" title="Saddam-Hussein_2038047c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Saddam-Hussein_2038047c.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="181" /></a>Visit <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq">The Guardian</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Every few months a member of the audience at a meeting I am addressing asks whether I regret supporting the overthrow of <a title="" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/saddam-hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>. The look in their eyes is both imploring and accusatory – &#8220;surely you must agree with me now&#8221;, it seems to say. I reply that I regret much: the disbanding of the Iraqi army; a de-Ba&#8217;athification programme that became a sectarian purge of <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Iraq" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq">Iraq</a>&#8216;s Sunnis; the torture of Abu Ghraib; and a failure to impose security that allowed murderous sectarian gangs to kill tens of thousands.</p>
<p>For all that, I say, I would not restore the Ba&#8217;ath if I had the power to rewind history. To do so would be to betray people who wanted something better after 35 years of tyranny. If my interrogators&#8217; protesting cries allow it, I then talk about Saddam&#8217;s terror state and the Ba&#8217;ath&#8217;s slaughter of the &#8220;impure&#8221; Kurdish minority, accomplished in true Hitlerian fashion with poison gas.</p>
<p>My questioners invariably look bewildered. The notion that, even if they opposed military intervention, they had obligations to support those who suffered under a regime which can be fairly described as national socialist had never occurred to them. No one can say that time&#8217;s passing has lessened their confusion.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s 10 years since the overthrow of Saddam and 25 since he ordered the Kurdish genocide. I can guarantee that you will not hear much about Saddam&#8217;s atrocities in the coming weeks. As Bayan Rahman, the Kurdish ambassador to London, said to me: &#8220;Everyone wants to remember Fallujah and no one wants to remember Halabja.&#8221; Nor, I think, will you hear about the least explored legacy of the war, which continues to exert a malign influence on &#8220;liberal&#8221; foreign policy.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading, click <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq">here</a>. </strong></p>
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