Posted on 01/02/2007 1:14:17 PM PST by tobyhill
Reporting for the Tuesday edition of CNN’s "Newsroom," correspondent Arwa Damon labeled Saddam Hussein’s execution "an act of sheer revenge" and predicted it would have only negative consequences. Damon now joins NBC reporter Richard Engel who last week also described the death of the tyrant as "revenge." Additionally, Ms. Damon characterized the grainy cell phone footage of Hussein’s death as "chilling" and noted that onlookers "taunted" Saddam. The CNN reporter suggested that the execution of the former Iraqi leader would further split the country apart:
Arwa Damon: "With Shia chants defining Saddam Hussein's last moments, it turns his execution into an act of sheer revenge and risks driving even moderate Sunnis further away from the Shia-led government that they already have little faith in to begin with. And so, rather than uniting Iraqis, it appears that Saddam's death is really only further dividing them."
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....and their point is "revenge is bad.".......
Reporting for the Tuesday edition of CNN’s "Newsroom," correspondent Arwa Damon labeled Saddam Hussein’s execution "an act of sheer revenge"
Civil authorities are supposed to be ministers of God's wrath on evil doers. Society sometimes needs to take revenge.
I disagree. Saddam is dead.
The media is so predictable...
It was not revenge, it was justice. There is a difference but I wouldn't expect a liberal to understand that.
I would call it justice served......the blood of countless innocents avenged.
I guess to CNN it would have been better to execute him for no reason rather than revenge?
And that is bad how?
Since when is revenge for genocide a bad thing?
and what about "cultural sensitivity"? of course executions carried out under arab law and custom - have nothing to do with revenge(sarc)
Who's got the Captain Obvious graphic?
Duh!
Revenge, the pure kind, a.k.a. retribution, is one of the basic reasons to have a criminal law system. It's never been thought of as 'bad' when it's an act of the state after a fair trial, only when non-state actors (lynch mob) act independently prematurely.
Damon and Engel aren't reporters. They're Saddam supporters.
Justice and Revenge can go hand and hand. We do it 50-60 times per year here in Texas and I've heard a lot worse coming from the victims families mouths. Of course it's not recorded but I guarantee the criminal can read lips.
They could have starved him to death peacefully. I guess the bleeding heart libs would have accepted that.
It's dollars to dougnuts NO CHANT took place.
These poor useful idiots just don't respect cultural diversity, I guess. Swift and barbaric executions are part of their culture over there, I've noticed. I guess the poor little babies in our press corps just don't have the ability to respect that. Oh, well -- at least we conservatives can be tolerant of a little diversity; and maybe, someday, those knuckledraggin liberals will see the light :)
Funny, most of us think it was an act of justice; expeditious justice, which will have only positive consequences!!!!
And so what?
Can you imagine our press sneering up it's sleeve at the Italians who threw out Il Duce, or at Germans spitting on Adolf's grave? (I mean back then, of course. Today, anything goes if it hurts Bush.)
wish this liberal socialist/marxist would take my invite to enjoy supper at my house.We'll have some chicken fried steaks, baked taters,corn ,spinich and bread.Every time he swallers a bite,I'll reach over and slap it right out his head. In his feared astonishmentd look,I'll reply, what ?
Bingo. Why should anyone care what a reporter thinks about world events? The worst is when they all get together and interview each other. Also, they are almost always wrong but they never report it.
And to hell with his vivtims? Right shithead?
When Saddam was alive the Iraqui's were killing US Troops and killing each other,and blowing people up with suicide bombs. Now that he is dead they are killing US troops and each other and blowing people up with suicide bombs.
What is the negative here?
One thing is certain, Saddam wont be throwing anyone else in a mulcher.
Revenge? --What wrong with revenge. It works for me.
Saddam killed thousands and she wants to sleep with him.saddam is where he belongs . In hell.
Scroll down to read CNN's glowing endorsement of Hamas, a "a grass-roots Palestinian organization that is the most significant activist group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hamas is known among Palestinians in those areas for humanitarian actions such as building schools, hospitals and helping the community in social and religious ways." Key players in the Israel-Palestinian conflict
Just in case you had any doubt that CNN sucks bilgewater, here you go...
Yep, dead is still dead no matter how many ways the MSM wants to critique the way he died and who said what before he was dead.
Saddam is dead. Suck it, CNN.
I thought execution for murder, after being convicted in a court of law, was simple justice in action. It is the law of sowing and reaping.
I think the CNN reporter is allowing his bias to cloud his judgement.
For me, it was a closure for something that should have happened over a decade ago.
I was not satisfied, until I was able to watch the video of his hanging.
More innocents will be killed by murderers who are not executed (in prison, or once released or if they escape) than will be killed by the state in erroneous executions.
Lefties do love their tyrants. The more hideous his crimes, the more devoted to him liberals become.
Personally I wouldn't have objected to having Saddam executed by being inserted feet-first into a shredder, which is how he had many of his victims killed.
He is not! He is alive and hiding in Argentina under an assumed name,.../sarc
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"Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."
Tell your liberal friends, that Saddam's hanging was only a form of "late term abortion." They have always supported that concept.
Well, lets dig his ass up and give him a more proper hanging then.
Saddam's execution was justice in fact. The manner in which it was carried out was silly revenge. Ideally, Saddam's execution would have last all of 60 seconds in which he would have been lad into the room and a hood placed over his head. ( No "optional" hood) The death warrant would have been read to him and he would have been dropped. The witnesses remaining silent would have filed out of the room and Saddam's corpse cut down from the gallows. End of story.
The way it was handled turned the entire event in to a Shitte revenge dance party. The Sunni Mideast took note of it...
Except that history has it that Hitler committed suicide.
No.
Christians believe that justice should be separated from revenge, but it's damned hard. It's pretty much human nature to cheer and celebrate when a cruel and wicked tyrant, mass murderer, and killer of your family and friends is executed.
The Italians celebrated when Mussolini was strung up, and who can really blame them? These same liberals who are whining now gloated over Richard Nixon for the next thirty years, and cheered when he died.
Besides, where's their multicultural sensitivity? It's part of the Arab culture for Muslims to taunt their enemies as they kill them. Who are we to criticize their culture? If we can wink at them for stoning women, I should think we might manage to excuse a little crassness at the hanging of one of the world's most evil men.
LOL! Excellent!
some of us were posting (and being flamed) this when the cell phone video (with audio) was first being displayed - the execution was handled poorly. unprofessional, undisciplined - it needed to appear as if a government was executing Saddam, instead it appeared as if a Shiite lynch mob was. Thank goodness the US stepped in and demanded his body be handled properly and taken to Tikrit, or it would have been worse.
Frankly I would not have minded if they dismembered him an inch at a time.
No, revenge is bad when the West does it, or any non-Western country that tries to move to a somewhat civilized society by ridding itself of murderous and barbaric dictators.
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