Just because a few ignorant hillbillies from northern India think in tribal terms doesn't make Hussein the headman of a tribe. He always called himself president. Their subtlety is lost on you because you aren't racist like they are. You understand that the Baath party is not a tribe, and they don't. You're too educated to endorse their backwards perspective, Jack. Iraq may yet regress into tribalism at some point, but for now it is a nation with borders and a government. Hussein at least understood that about his country. These other people don't have a clue who Saddam was.
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