Stop trying to behave like a Hollywood hitman
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2002

If the United States had wanted to confirm every worst suspicion in the world, it could do no worse than reveal that it has set the CIA free to organise a coup against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

For Washington to disclose that it now plans to do this extra-judicially sends out entirely the wrong message, however good it sounds to American voters. The road to global condemnation of the United States is paved with the coups and attempted coups of the CIA, from the overthrow of the democratically elected Mossadeq in Iran and Allende in Chile onwards. It is not without justification that the organisation has managed the rare feat of combining a reputation for deviousness with that of incompetence; recent events show little evidence that it has changed its bungling ways. MORE

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