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To: sweetliberty
to what extent was this particular man acting, ever, of his own free will? Most were never allowed a free will to begin with under Saddam.

Good point, great question. And perhaps that's another reason why I don't have the same anger toward him. Perhaps that's it, he wasn't this 'military general,' he was a 'minister of [dis]information.' He probably had no real allies with those who were generals.....you should read Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. It deals with a character, hired by the CIA as a double agent, hired afterwards by the Nazis, to speak propaganda that was acutally 'code words' for the Allies. There's much more to it than that, of course. It's a great book. I often thought of that character when Baghdad Bob spoke.

41 posted on 05/03/2003 7:48:20 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo
They also made that novel into a movie, I think it was also called 'Mother Night'...I saw it long ago, and dont remember who was in it, but thanks for your reminder of the book...I had forgotten all about that...
46 posted on 05/03/2003 8:58:44 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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