Ahmadinejad is the New Saddam: Arab Times, Kuwait

There seems to be an emerging trend in the Muslim world, in which all leaders regarded as despots are called ‘worse than Saddam’, ‘as bad as Saddam’, or the ‘new Saddam.’

Yesterday we posted ‘Muammar Qaddafi is No Better than Saddam,’ from the newspaper Sotal Iraq.

Today, from Kuwait’s Arab Times, we have this article that warns about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being the ‘new Saddam.’ Coming from Kuwait, a nation Saddam invaded in 1990, that’s pretty strong language.

For the Arab Times, Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Al-Jarallah writes in part:

Even as his country is engulfed in a monumental leadership crisis with a system pushing Iran backwards, Ahmadinejad continues to exude an air of false strength. The country’s spooks are busy spending money organizing terrorist attacks and operations of destruction that Iranians clearly condemned with their Quds Day [Jerusalem Day] slogan, “no Gaza, no Lebanon, we are dying for Iran!”

“It seems that in every generation, there’s a dictator who treads a different path from those of his peers. In 1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser employed a similar trick that was discovered later [reference to the Six-Day War against Israel]. In the 1970s, the murderer of Baghdad [Saddam] also crafted lies, claiming to be working toward liberating Quds [Jerusalem], while what he actually planned was to destroy half the Israeli population using chemical weapons. His passion for killing eventually led him to kill tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis in mass graves. That dark day in August 1990 was the final straw. When he attacked Kuwait, the true nature of this killer was exposed. When he fell with his collaborators and as Iraq and the entire region were liberated from his clutches, Saddam’s summer night’s dreams vanished into thin air.

“By deceiving citizens about his real intentions, Ahmadinejad is walking the same path as Saddam Hussein and Nasser. … After the fall of Saddam, the entire region was relieved that such a killer was gone. But he has been reincarnated in the form of Ahmadinejad, who takes after him completely by bringing calamity to his people.”

By Ahmed Al-Jarallah*

September 29, 2009

Kuwait – Arab Times – Original Article (English)

WHAT does the Ayatollah want from the world? Where is he taking Iranians and the rest if the region’s citizens by courting the enmity of the international community? One wonders what the rest of the nations can do to please Iran and discourage its leaders from escalating tensions. This is a pertinent question, particularly after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated his threat at the podium of the United Nations.

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