The humiliating images of Saddam Hussein's capture by US forces risk increasing Arab support for the Iraqi resistance and sharpening their appetite for revenge™, analysts said on Monday.
| Is there anything that doesn't sharpen the Arabs' appetite for Dire Revenge™? |
"I felt extremely humiliated," said Egyptian writer Sayyid Nassar, who interviewed Saddam three weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq on 20 March. "I felt it was not only a humiliation of Arabs but of all humanity. By shaving his beard, a symbol of virility in Iraq and in the Arab world, the Americans committed an act that symbolizes humiliation in our region, where getting shaved by one's enemy means robbing him of his will."
| Ohfergawdsake. Every once in awhile one of these goobers makes a statement that results in me blowing stuff out my nose. It's actually easier to clean up if you were drinking something at the time... |
"It's also a humiliation for all Arab leaders and a message telling them that he who does not enter the poultry yard of the Americans will experience the same fate," he said.
| We're running a chicken yard now? Perhaps Michael Moore will add Perdue to his list of companies profiteering from Iraq... |
Saddam's arrest "will not destroy the Iraqi resistance against the US occupier," and will encourage "feelings of Arab solidarity with the Iraqi fighters," he predicted. "On the contrary, the resistance will grow and change shape."
| "Yes. It's the Sta-Puft Marshmallow resistance." |
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