Ouch -- Israel's security chief says he may miss Saddam

[Edward Copeland]

And if Israel feels that Saddam is preferable to the chaos in Iraq now, what does that say about how bad it really is there?


The head of Israel's domestic security agency, Shin Bet, has said his country may come to regret the overthrow of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Yuval Diskin said a strong dictatorship would be preferable to the present "chaos" in Iraq, in a speech to teenage Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

A Shin Bet veteran, Mr Diskin took over as Shin Bet's chief in May.

When asked about the growing destabilisation of Iraq, Mr Diskin said Israel might come to rue its decision to support the US-led invasion in 2003.

"When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos," he said.

"I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam."

http://edwardcopeland.blogspot.com/2006/02/ouch-israel-security-chief-says-he-may.html

[iamjoy]

1. Don't Rejoice The Fall Of A Tyrant

because you don't know who will replace him. That's the Jewish philosophy.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Peaceful coexistance

Something that is so precious now a near impossibility in the middle east.
All this hatred and injustice not healthy.
At least Isreal knows what a shithouse they are in now.
In trying to make people conform at a point of a gun
One is likely to end up in a big FUBAR
Bush the walking disaster does not understand what kind of shit he is leaving around for the future generation of this world.
Sad that he is the President of once the GREASTEST country in this world.
Sad that he use all the greatest and abuse it.
So now what?
Which road to take. The pain the pain.

[Lithos]

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Original source being the BBC article.

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