By WILLIAM
BLUM, CounterPunch.org, 6/22/06
National
Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR’s
Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric,
a man who was described in the NPR report as “a moderate”
and as a person trying to lead his Shiite followers into practicing
peace and reconciliation. He had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and
forced into exile. Jenkins asked him: “What would you think
if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?” The cleric replied
that he’d “rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way
it is now.” [read more]