By Brian Carnell

Friday, January 9, 2004

Following the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, former Nicaraguan president and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega expressed his solidarity with Hussein against the Yankee occupiers of Iraq. The Associated Press quoted Ortega as saying,

We maintain our solidarity with the Iraqi people and with Saddam Hussein, who continues to be the president of Iraq. A barbarity is being committed because he is being judged by a government of occupation headed by a Yankee./p>

Ortega went on to say that Hussein was, in fact, still the legitimate president of Iraq "because he wasn't kicked out by his people but by a foreign intervention." Therefore, Ortega added, any prosecution of Hussein for crimes he may have committed as dictator of Iraq is illegitimate,

This is a president who has not been kicked out by his people, and in those conditions, it is not legitimate to open judicial proceedings.

Well, at least Ortega continues to stick by his principles.

Sources:

Ex-Nicaragua Leader Voices Saddam Support. Associated Press, December 19, 2003.

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