Saddam Hussein

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Saddam Hussein mainly as an example of media discourse. From 2015 to 2026, he repeatedly points to the phrase "Saddam Hussein defies the West" or "the Westerners". For him, it shows how vague the word is and how it opposes a realm of good to an empire of evil123. He counts him among the personalised enemies and the "devils" that the West names one after another, presented as a "new Hitler"45. He also recalls that the British promoted him as a "good killer of communists"6. Without counting him on his own side, he stresses that Iraq was a secular country, that its leader did not put religion at the centre and that he was targeted by Bin Laden and then by NATO78. He grants that the regime was repressive, but judges that Atlanticism did ten times worse in Iraq. Finally, he cites the weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and the empty appeal to "our values" used to justify the aggression.

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