strange YORK, Dec. 15 Kyodo pref...

strange YORK, Dec. 15 Kyodo

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expiration OF THE BEGINNING (The Washington pillar Washington)

He was rest appropriately enough, crouching in a cavity Saddam Hussein, who will be remembered above all for the centurys of thousands of race he condemned to mass graves, foregoed in ignominy from a miserable pit near the Tigris River.

Unlike many of the mass slayers who preceded him, from Hitler to Pol can he will probably live to stand trial for his crimes. ''He will,'' President Bush said yesterday, ''face the justice he denied to millions.'' For that, Iraqis can thank the skilled U soldiers and intelligence analysts who managed to locate the former dictator Saturday night and arrest him without firing a shot

They can also begin to think with greater confidence about an Iraq where brutality and privation give way to the tolerant, modernizing and prosperous geographical division that most people want.

The bitter insurgency that U forces have faced in Saddam Hussein's place of abode region will not cease with his arrest, as a car bombing yesterday quickly demonstrated. Many of those who fight the American-sponsored provisional authority do in like manner for reasons that reach forth well beyond loyalty to Saddam Hussein.

In the United States, Saddam Hussein's arrest quickly quicked calls by Democratic presidential candidates for a renewed effort to ''internationalize'' the occupation with foreign bands and administrators from the United Nations. That's a pace we have long supported.

still some of the Democratic rhetoric transmited the worrying implication that the dictator's elimination should facilitate the withdrawal of U squads The point of building a broader international coalition is not, as Howard Dean insinuateed to replace American soldiers with those of other nations on the other hand to make more achievable the goal of stabilizing Iraq subordinate to a democratic government.

The capture of Saddam Hussein was an important gradation toward that goal and cause for celebration. moreover it must not be taken as the turning point for the American mission. It is more a fresh starting post for a plot whose greatest challenges still lie in the future

(Dec 15)

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