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    January 5, 2004 1365, EXCHANGE COLUMNS 18 2 HOW GREEN WAS MY TALLY. 6 DEADLINE POET Murton Edelstein, Steve Welzer Ronald Memo ‘MacKinnon, Paul Felton, Pat Gray, John Halle, Rocky Neptun, Glenn Reed, Carol Miller John Rensenbrink, Scott McLarty ‘Micah L. Sify EDITORIALS & COMMENT 10 Calvin Trillin BEAT THE DEVIL, How to Kill Saddam Alexander Cockburn DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR Money, Money, Money 3. SADDAM'S INGLORIOUS END eons Nome bee 28 4. THE NEW MONEY GAME 5 ELECTION MATTERS ARTICLES Blue States, Latino Voters 11 RISKY BUSINESS Joe Velasquez and Steve Cobble Hanging with Haliburton at 6 TROUBLE IN PROZAC NATION ReBuilding lag 2. Richard DeGrandpre Naomi Klein 7 INFACT. 16 THE DEATH OF HORATIOALGER 34 (Out politcal leaders are doing everything TEXAS, INC “Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it. Kim Phillips-Fein BOOKS & THE ARTS BRAUDY: Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy ofthe Left Carol Brightman WILLS: “Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power WIENCEK: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, andthe Creation of America VIDAL: Inventing a Nation: Washington, ‘Adams, Jefferson Daniel Lazare BILLARD: Louis Malle, Le Rebelle Solitaire 8 HAVE YOURSELF A PENTAGON XMAS Nicholas Turse Paul Krugman Cover they canto fortify class inequality. Richard Vinen sign by Gene Case and Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels: illustrations by Christoph Niemann, Ryan Inzana | EDITORIALS | Saddam’s Inglorious End WT becvemies ofa tee trag have lost their leader” said George Bush following the capture of Saddam Hussein. To many -ople’s eyes, the lone derelict crouching in a six-foot-deep spider hole” hardly seemed the mastermind of the insur- rection. Yes, his capture is good news for the Iraqi people. ‘Their ex-dictator ean now be held to account forthe fearful crimes and atrocities that pocked his reign—hanging innocent Jews in Baghdad in 1969; ordering a third of Baath Party officials shot in 1979; invading Iran and decimating a generation of young men; gassing the Kurds in 1988; massacring Shiites and marsh Arabs after the first Gulf Wer, ceaseless arbitrary arrests and executions. ‘That said, Bush's incipient triumphalism seems an attempt to inflate the arrest of Saddam into a justification for his illegal wat. ‘Saddam's capture does nothing to justify the war, said Senator Robert Byrd in a speech (full text at www-thenation.com) at the December 14 Nation Institute dinner: “As each day passes and as more American soldiers are killed and wounded in Irag, I become ‘ever more convinced thatthe war in Iraq was the wrong war atthe \wrong time in the wrong place forthe wrong reasons.” Bush used his press conference to announce his run for re-election and tout his “extraordinary year” of achievements. He got a temporary boost in popularity out of the capture, and his politcal strategists are already devising ways to put Democratic critics of the war on the defensive. But neither Howard Dean, who warned that Sad dam's arrest “has not made America safer” (polls say 60 percent agree), nor Dennis Kucinich, who called for ending the occupa- tion and bringing in the UN, was intimidated by slams from the Administration, other Democrats or the punditocracy. Even the ebullient Bush fet constrained to warn thatthe fight ing in Iraq will not soon be over. (Inthe twenty-four hours after ‘Saddam's arrest, atleast twenty-six Iraqi police and civilians were killed by car bombs.) Nor will the arrest of Saddam hasten the cap- ture of Osama bin Laden or eliminate a single Al Qaeda cell Meanwhile, in Irag, Reuters reported that “joy atthe capture of Saddam Hussein gave way to resentment toward Washington as Iragis confronted afresh the bloodshed, shortages and soaring prices of life under US occupation.” The Washington Post noted that “inthe towns and villages to the north and west ofthe capi- tal, where anger atthe occupation is most intense, Hussein's arrest may have little impact on the insurgency. ‘Atmost, the former dictator was rallying symbol for arestora- tion, but that prospect instilled dread in the hearts of most Iraqis, ‘who had come to loathe him. Many Iragis, Sunnis as well as Shi- ites, may actually feel emboldened to resist US troops now that Saddam has no chance of coming back. As for the Islamists com- ‘ng in from other countries, they were never fond of Saddam, Although US military spokesmen play down the attacks as “strategically insignificant,” their continuation seriously hampers Iraq's reconstruction, undermines GI morale and sways a growing body of Iragis to blame America for their troubles. ‘A cheerleading media bought into the triumphalist Bush sce- nario. On CNN Judy Woodruff asked, “What are the issues left 10 talk about regarding Iraq?” Well, ending the occupation, for one. ‘The need to seize this moment to internationalize the transition to a sovereign Iraq is ever more pressing, although it seems unlikely. ‘There was speculation that the Administration would use ex Secretary of State Jim Bakers debt-moratorium sales mission to Nati January 6, 2004 HELL = The Nation. RAND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR. Vitor Nevsky bros Katrin vandenHewel MANAGING EDITOR Karen Ramer {ITERARY EDITOR: Adm Ste SENIOR EDITORS Richard Lingeman, ty Rod SENIOR EDITOR COPY CHIEF Rone Carey ory sorrel Long ASSOCIATE LITERARY EDITOR Hillary Frey (Cory aSSOCtATE: Lisa Vandepaer [SSISEANT COPY EDFIORTECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR: Ami K Rafadle ASST Yor EDITOR Fey Sete INTERNS Ben Ader Aras El Enel, Nia R. Englander rita V Jones (Mish Ungton). ate M Levin Megan Mar, Kev M McCarty, Fit Sein Rertein Recs Tae Db WASHINGTON DC: EDITOR: David Cor; CORRESFONDENT: Jt Nible NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Wilam Greer ‘Couunosts: Fic Akerman, Alexandr Cother, Nao Klein, Kis Polit, Pt Wills DEPARTMENTS: dhtece, Jane Holts Kay; 4 Arthur C. 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