Monday, January 5, 2004
CNN.com - Please don't call my son Saddam - Jan. 5, 2004
Mohsen al-Harithy first asked the relevant authorities to change his son's name in 1990, when the forces of the now-desposed Iraqi president invaded neighbouring Kuwait, the Saudi English-language Arab News newspaper reported on Monday.
But the boy's file was destroyed by an Iraqi missile attack on the civil status department in the Saudi capital Riyadh in the 1991 war to liberate Kuwait.
"After I found the paper was gone, I forgot about the whole thing but recent events and the capture of Saddam force me to change the name," he said. "The Saddam name now symbolises pessimism, evil, mockery and disappointment all at once."
Damn right.
And that's one of the reasons he's no longer there. Anti-American rabble-rousers using hate as a weapon of demagoguery on a mass scale take note. Using hatred of the USA may end providing you with more trouble than it's worth.
Now taking applications for next despot to be discredited...
Well it was kinda stupid to name your son after a merciless tyrant in the first place. tsk. Really now!