His ostentatious cruelty was easy to demonise.This was true internationally and also in Iraq. In the three-week war which overthrew him in March and April, most of the Iraqi armed forces – including the supposedly ?te Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard – refused to fight. Many Iraqis who dislike the occupation still prefer it to the old regime. But the death or capture of Saddam would remove this threat and a central justification for US and British troops staying in the country.The writer is co-author of ‘Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession’.

Well now. The capital’s familiar landmarks are really starting to look rather handsome The mayor has sorted out the traffic All we need to do now is smarten up the people What a mess! The lot of us need a makeover

Well now. What a mess! The lot of us need a makeover.
There was a time when we used to dress up to visit the capital, as many French people still do when they go to Paris No longer. Wherever you go in central London these days, you risk rubbing up against bare flesh; some of it pimply, some of it hairy, most of it flabby and obviously surplus to corporeal requirements. The phenomenon is exacerbated by the arrival of summer, but not of it: girls and even grown women were walking around with designer goose-pimples on their bare midriffs months ago.Nor is the exposed flesh exactly – how shall we put it – enhanced by the apology for clothing that “covers” the rest. It is poorly designed, ill-fitting and of uncertain cleanliness. Half the time it is not even suited to the task at hand – staying on, for instance.

But what it is least of all suited to is enforced close congress with fellow human beings.If London’s mayor can reduce the number of cars driving around central London by dint of a £5 a day levy – thereby also upgrading the ones that do come – something similar can surely be applied to people. After all, if nightclubs across the country can maintain their reputation by selecting their clientele according to standards of appearance and turn-out, surely London as our capital city could do the same. The large Cs on the approach roads that now stand for Congestion could be made to stand for “City-dress” as well.What we need is some appearance-police. Do you remember the wardens who used to stand at cathedral doors in Italy – perhaps they still do – turning back the disrespectfully dressed? They wielded long, slender sticks and would bar your way, tapping the appropriate part of your anatomy if you failed No headscarf, skirt too short, shorts… If you did not pass ecclesiastical muster, you were turned back Now there’s a model for London.

Our inspectors could be housed in little kiosks beside each pavement entrance to the C-zone and at all main railway stations in the capital. Improperly dressed? Stay out of the C-zone.So let’s set a few ground rules.Rule one: No shorts for anyone who does not qualify for a child fare on public transport. While we are at it, shorts should be ruled out as suitable dress for the whole adult population of this country, except at the seaside – and when I say seaside, I mean the actual beach, not even the streets leading to it. We are not the right shape for shorts, and the shorts sold in our shops are not the right shape for us. Foreign visitors should be required to comply out of deference to our national handicap. One rule for all means that we would not risk expensive lawsuits for discrimination from American tourists, whose taste in shorts is possibly even more execrable than our own.Rule two: No bare midriffs. I’m sorry, all you budding Britneys out there, but there has to be one rule for all.

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