A Note From Rick:

There are a lot of people working here that come from countries all over the region, and they all have different ideas about what was happening here, what needed to happen here, and what has happened here. One of the "fixers" used to belong to the Republican Guard (not THE Republican Guard, he points out). He was injured during the war with Iran, and it sounds like he ended up in some kind of desk job. Needless to say, he's a Saddam supporter, although in the kind of way that some people remember JFK, not the way some people remember Hitler. Anyway, he wrote an article for a web site, and I thought I'd pass along the URL:


Debates


He does a lot of translations for us of tapes that are shot on the sly by locals, and it's interesting to hear what regular people think. Anyway, check out his article.