FRONTPAGE MAG: Saddam Hussein Party Running for Office in Jordan December 29, 2012 by Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
The Muslim world is to feel good stories as a house on fire is to a home cooked meal. This one comes to us from Jordan which is slowly and hesitantly experimenting with democracy… and getting Saddam Hussein.
The Board of Commissioners in the the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) rejected the name of a national list which chose former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s name, although it accepted the applications of the candidates provided that they change the name of the list.
The surprise did not stop at the name of the list, but the second surprise was that one of the candidates at the head of the list was named Saddam Hamdan Hussein.
He added that he will fight in the upcoming parliamentary elections, saying that “Saddam Hussein’s name was chosen because people in Jordan loved him.”
Well Saddam Hussein was fairly popular in Jordan.
There’s no word on exactly what the Saddam Hussein Party and Saddam Hussein stand for, but it’s a safe bet that it’s probably not anything good.
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/saddam-hussein-party-running-for-office-in-jordan/
It’s like the old “Domino Theory” in action.
True for pretty much every country on the planet.