(Washington Post) Anne Applebaum - With bombs exploding in the Green Zone, the fate of Saddam Hussein seems to many a secondary priority. But what if this logic is backward? What if the insurgency, the bombs, and the massacres are happening precisely because there has been no national discussion of the past? A complete trial of Hussein, one that showed the extent of the corruption, forced collaboration, violence and terror he imposed on the entire nation, might help Iraqis understand that all of them - Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish - suffered in different ways. A wider debate about how Iraq got to where it is might help persuade Iraqis to invest in the present.
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