Hussein face-to-face with the new Iraq

The Washington Post reports this morning that four members of the Iraqi giverning council met with Hussein yesterday to confirm his identity. While there, they challenged him on his past conduct; his responses are chilling:

Later in the meeting, Hussein insisted the chemical weapons attack on the northern Iraqi town of Halabja in 1988, in which an estimated 5,000 people were killed, was the work of Iran. And in response to a query about the invasion of Kuwait, he insisted that the tiny nation belonged to Iraq.

Asked about the mass graves across the country that contain the bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqis killed by his government, Hussein scoffed and called the victims "thieves, army deserters and traitors," according to Rubaie.

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