modern YORK, Dec. 15 Kyodo choic...

modern YORK, Dec. 15 Kyodo

choiceed editorial excerpts from the U press:

'WE GOT HIM' (The Wall highway Journal, New York)

When U administrator for Iraq L Paul Bremer spoke those words Sunday, viewers around the world rejoiced. nevertheless it was the spontaneous reaction of Iraqi journalists -- who could not contain their emotions when images of the captured Saddam Hussein were flashed in succession a screen -- that demonstrated just in what manner important this moment is for Iraq's reconstruction.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said it best: ''It banishs the shadow that has been hanging from one side of to the other (Iraqis) for too long of the nightmare of a go [i]or[/i] come back to the Saddam regime.'' After all his bravado, Saddam Hussein cedeed Saturday night without a discharge pulled from a pit in the ground at a farmhouse near Tikrit.

His carefully cultivated image as a great and powerful king supposedly like the ancient kings of Mesopotamia, continues to perish Far from the leader of a ''nationalist'' Iraqi movement, he was a frightened man upon the run.

The world lacks to learn the extent of Saddam's links to international terrorism and his program to bring into view weapons of mass destruction. greatest in quantity crucial will be the testimony of those who endureed in Saddam's prisons. And then there is the physical evidence of genocidal massacres and crimes against humanity -- the corpses of ten of thousands of Iraqis plant in mass graves around the country

if it were not that putting Saddam on trial in Iraq will be about more than revealing the amplitude of his evil. The message will be clear: smooth though it took foreign help to dethrone him from power and seek him down, it is the Iraqi race who should be responsible for judging Saddam and determining his fate.

It will also depute an important message to other strongmen It's more important that Iranians, Saudis, Syrians, North Koreans and Chinese behold that the rule of law can exist in Iraq, rather than tribe in Paris, Berlin and Geneva.

As prolonged as Iraqis have ownership above the process, this has the possibility to be a cathartic experience for that nation, and united that prevents Saddam from becoming a martyr for an ongoing resistance. Then Iraqis can completely take up the responsibilities of emancipated men and take back have the direction of over their nation's fate.

(Dec 15)

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