Canada's Maclean's: Bush Is the New Saddam

Published: September 21, 2007, 11:45 am

Tags: al qaeda, anti iraq war bias, george w bush, patrick graham, saddam hussein, foreign non english media, canada, anbar province

Canadian news magazine Maclean's photoshopped George Bush into the familiar black beret, mustache and pseudo-military garb that defined the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. This photo illustration accompanied a September 20 cover story that claimed Bush is the new Saddam because he's reaching out the the late dictator's henchmen. In "How Bush Became the New Saddam," writer Patrick Graham described a decaying civilization that is doomed to fail in this rambling, disjointed article. He traveled around Iraq separately from the US military and even criticized journalists embedded with them because they learn mostly about Americans...and end up sounding like a visiting columnist for the New York Times (my emphasis throughout). Ah yes, Canadians wouldn't want to echo that notoriously pro-military, pro-war and pro-American voice of the NY Times. He jumped on the Anbar Awakening, and noted that [m]any of America's new allies are former insurgents and Saddam

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