Writer Arundhati Roy hopes Saddam's fate for Bush

Times of India ^ | SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 02:55:18 PM

[risk]

Roy hopes Saddam's fate for Bush

AFP[ SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 02:55:18 PM ]

Social activist Shabana Azmi, left, speaks as freedom fighter Lakshmi Sehgal, and writer Arundathi Roy, right, look on at the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum in Bombay on Friday. (AP Photo)

BOMBAY: Writer Arundhati Roy, who wants an ongoing anti-globalisation conference to launch a campaign to shut down US companies, said Sunday she hoped President George W Bush would share the fate of the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

"If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush," Roy told about 100 people at a leftist convention on the sidelines of the World Social Forum.

"Saddam Hussein surely ought to be tried for crimes against humanity. But so should all his accomplices in the US and Europe," she said.

"To applaud the US army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler," Roy said.

The winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things was speaking at ‘Mumbai Resistance’, an alternative convention in Bombay of around 2,000 leftists who view the World Social Forum as too moderate.

Roy is also taking part in the World Social Forum, which she co-inaugurated Friday with a call for the 100,000 anti-globalisation activists to pick two US companies engaged in the Iraq war and launch a campaign to shut them down.

She recommended, as a possible target Bechtel, the San Francisco-based engineering firm which has been awarded contracts worth $2.48 billion to reconstruct Iraq from the US Agency for International Development.

Roy noted that George Shultz, a former US secretary of state who has advised President Bush, was on Bechtel's board of directors. 

"Our battle has to be against both the occupiers and the new owners of Iraq," Roy said.

The six-day World Social Forum, being held outside Brazil for the first time, features hundreds of panels and protests on issues ranging from US foreign policy to the environment to gender rights.

[risk]

While we were trying to balance Saddam against Khoemeni, fending off the Soviets in Afghanistan, and assuaging Arab hatred for Israel, where was Roy? India was "non-alligned" at a time when Mao was starving and enslaving his people. India was non-alligned when Stalin was winding down his reign of terror. Roy has said some noble things, but this wasn't one of them.

[risk]

ping

[risk]

Duplicate thread alert: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1060202/posts

[MEG33]

A leftist,capitalism,America hating rant .Too bad.

[ThirstyMan]

Hatred for the American way and Bush in particular continues.
Surprise!
Those who speak out in opposition to freedom and the granting of persecuted populations basic human rights, cannot be given any weight. They are the tyrants. They are the terrorists. They are the enemy. Arundhati Roy, we see you clearly now. Thank you for identifying yourself.

The beauty of the Bush doctrine is that it allows us to see clearly who are our mortal enemies.

[MEG33]

Do go to the other link and find the link to Victor David Hanson's column about this.He skewers Roy at the end.

[sirchtruth]

Does this woman worship cows?

[MEG33]

That would seem to be the least bizarre thing about her if true.

[tkathy]

Maybe they should clean up their own country before crapping on ours.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In related news, Democratic presidential frontrunner Howard Dean was reported to be mulling Arundhati Roy as his vice-presidential running mate.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I'm all for pulling our tech jobs out of India and bringing them back home. In the mean time, this mad-cow worshipper is not saying anything we have not heard before. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

[ThirstyMan]

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200312300000.asp

Thanks so much. There's a lot of duplication on this thread and so to get all the comments one must travel to at least three titles.
I found this address to the Victor David Hanson story but don't know how to make a link. WOW! What an expose of the western intellectual mind! A great read for everyone on Free Republic.

[ThirstyMan]

"Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"

Well said!....and so loudly. I love it!

[Cronos]

Roy's stupidity isn't representative of anyone but herself. She's a known nutcase who gets far too much publicity. Just ignore the cow.