Catch 22

Although the following is a sad incident that can't be condoned, we have to look at it from a positive view point. By the reactions and statements made by the students, it points to the new enlightenment the younger generations of Iraq are heading toward. Baathist's and others of the former Saddam regime, will not be tolerated if they continue with this growth toward democracy.
Student's Slaying Fills University With Rage:

"Grief over Sarhan's death turned to anger against Hiti, fueled by rumors of a threat against Sarhan by the bodyguard and by the fact that the dean hails from a town in western Iraq that has been a noted center of Baathist power.

'Anyone who benefited from the Saddam regime is a criminal and deserves what they get,' said Haidar Mahdi, a 21-year-old pharmacy student who described the unrest as a 'student revolution against the Baath.'

'The college was like a room full of gas, and Masar's death was the spark that ignited it,' he said."