GR and Iraq: the Zone

[Terrance]

The Great Quail wrote:
> 
> Watching CNN last night....seeing Baghdad and Iraq, no government, filled
> with US troops, people of all different temperaments, looting palaces, freed
> prisoners, roving bands of violent partisans, knowing so many various
> interests are waiting to arrive; this trembling feeling that something is
> about to happen, that fortunes are changing....and then, somewhere in Iraq,
> a native leads troops to an al-Samoud missile...!
> 
> Hmmmm.....
> 
> --Quail

Of course the Cold War begins in the Zone and now one of the last
Figures, a Figure not built or erected by the USA or the West, but built
by a series of conflicts (some between Western States--the most
important historical event in Saddam's life was the Suez Crisis) that
emerged from the Zone,  in the image of Stalin, with a Stalinistic cult
or personality, is  burning, is being pulled down and decapitated, his 
terror and hypocrisy, trampled under the feet of Iraqi preterit.