There were about thirty write-in remarks to that piece, many of which concluded that Shameh's piece had to be satire, it was so misguided and erroneous.

Writing gilt praise does not change the shameful and dishonest methods the man used, nor the harm he did to the country. It is true that he was decisive, and obdurate. These would haver been great virtues except that they simmered in a stew of muddled impulses, dishonesty and distortion.


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