“Alkhal, he was hanged years before I was born. I have heard of him though, who hasnt. What a tyrant he was. Why do you desire to meet him? You will have to commit unforgivable sins and then die a horrific death to go meet him in hell.” the kid told with sarcasm. Hussein was in a state of shock. The once prosperous city, was in shambles around him and this little young fellow tells him he is a tyrant, committed many sins and was hanged! He knew he wasn't a saint during his lifetime, but this is not what he expected to see in the future. It took him couple of minutes to get out of that state of shock, leave behind the mourning and responded, “ Oh yes Sibi, you know I am growing old and keep forgetting, losing my memory slowly. Could you help me find out something more about him?”, requested Hussein. The boy although puzzled by the man's request but who cares what the man wants to read and know, after all he was going to get paid.” Sure, look here, let me show you! He then starts showing him articles on Wikipedia, “See, here you can read all you want to know about him”. “Look at this, on this video sharing platform you will find many videos on him. You want to watch his hanging video, it is one of the most shared and watched videos of all time, let me show you, “tells the boy and here in first time in human history a man watches the video of his own death. Hussein tried to control his trembling hands and with his lower eyelid filled with his own salty water, he took the gadget from the young boy's hand and found himself lost in the several videos of the war torn country he once proudly called his motherland. He wondered what on earth instigated him to fight against his own Persian neighbours. His people killed, for what reasons he only kept wondering! Why on earth these civilized people burned down one of the oldest civilizations known to mankind? Were the early plunders by the Mongols and the Greeks and the British were any less? The more he used the search engine to look for what has happened in over 40 years, the more he was grieved and saddened. His sons were killed, his legacy destroyed, his holy motherland plundered; transportation , roadways and bridges, sanitation facilities , electrical grids all destroyed taking the country back a century of its progress; for the sake of finding weapons of mass destruction which were never found? “Which weapons was George looking for? the ones he gave us to fight the Persian neighbours?” To his utter shock, the very land he loved and respected was toiled by multiple raging wars and crimes done by the West, and he was been blamed for all the ill doings. he was held accountable, whereas the West were credited with “trying to liberate” the people. His blood boiled, his eyes wettened, he was lost in thoughts, he couldn't think what he did wrong that let his people suffer so badly. He is now known as the man for who inflicted heinous human rights violations; and on the other hand the people behind mass killings of his people, destruction of one of the fastest growing economy are termed as heroes, their actions justified and his labelled cruel. The same UN whose subsidiary UNESCO had just couple of years ago awarded him for indicating illiteracy from Iraq has now termed him as one of the worst terrorists of his times. Can a man who spent his life for liberation and education of specially the women of his nation, be a terrorist instigation crime against the same people? He recalled his 50-year-old speech - “Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.” How have the world forget that my country was amongst the first countries to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women? He went down the memory lane and remembers how under his regime the women in government got a full year's maternity leave, something not granted even today in many countries across the world. He is deeply disappointed on the thought of being condemned, considered one of the worst enemies of humanity and someone who should have been killed ages ago. George is praised for eliminating “terror” and “oppressed regime of one of the worst dictators”. How he wished he would be remembered not as the worst dictator of the western propaganda soothing their ulterior motives and ever-wanting greed for supremacy over oil. But as a ruler who loved and wanted prosperity for his motherland. He doesn't want to know more, he had seen enough of the dark future, he couldn't see the devastation all around his motherland. He wanted to go back! Back to the good ‘ol days!He thanked the little boy for his generosity. Emptied out his pocket of all the dinars & handed it over to the boy as promised. He turned back & walked on the streets as if for the last time. He regretted the decision of coming to witness the future for what he saw only crippled his mind & ambitions further.