[goldstategop]

Let us now praise... one of those famous opening periphrases that rings true in the case of Iraq's judicial system. It has succeeded in delivering swift justice to a brutal dictator, despite the opposition of the world's anti-death penalty Left. Iraq's courts have made a mockery of international and American courts and their failure to exact justice for the victims of crime by imposing swift and sure punishment on the offenders. Its a very good thing Saddam Hussein will hang from the gallows in less than 30 days. This is the final step that completes Iraq's transformation from a lawless dictatorship in which one man's word was absolute law to a law-ruled society in which the highest state officials are subject to and accountable to the law. This is the central reason, apart from Saddam being a mass murderer, for the Iraqi courts' verdict. They got the job done and for that alone, they deserve high praise indeed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Doogle]

Tick tick tick

[PGalt]

BUMP! Outstanding.

[domenad]

Saddam is scum on the highest order, no question. Executing him, however, won't do a damn thing except give a lot of ragheads excuses to blow things up. That pic of him in his underwear was a death sentence for him on the international scene. Harmless? I wouldn't say that, but if we ever hope to have an Iraq at peace, someone has to stay their hand and stop the killing. Sparing Saddam and sentencing him to life in supermax security would have taken the wind out of these leftist punks and maybe given some Iraqis pause before picking up a weapon. Then again, there's no prison, Iraqi or otherwise, outside of the US that I would trust to hold him (the Euroweenies let terrorists go, remember?), and I'm certainly not footing the bill for this guy's Mach 3's.

[CarolinaGOP]

"“Amnesty International deplores death sentences in Saddam Hussein trial.” "

I don't remember Amnesty International complaining when almost 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11/01, or when Saddam was murdering people in his own country....

[albee]

"Iraqi jurors, to their credit, proved far less tolerant of Clark’s provocations than their Western counterparts. When Clark attempted to turn Saddam’s November sentencing into a crude referendum on the trial itself, Chief Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman promptly dismissed him as a “mockery” and evicted him from the courtroom."

Is there any chance we can appoint this guy to our Supreme Court?

[KDD]

Poor substitute for Osama but any red meat will do for some.

I still remember when he was one of our most loyal allies in that region. Rumsfeld had several "productive" meetings with Saddam during Ronald Reagans tenure and Saddam fought the Iranian Islamists to a standstill in several years of bloody warfare with that country. It was a good time for international arms dealers.

I think his demise began when the Reagan Administration distanced itself from him after he used poison gas against Iran, and later the Kurds who were revolting in the North. Policy papers on the Middle East at that time, and for most of the preceding 15 years show American foreign policy more preferred Saddam in power then the Islamic government that would naturally form in his absence due to the complex demographics of the region. The Bathist Party was secular...It was thought they could be dealt with.

The first Gulf War had nothing to do with terrorism...Saddam invaded Kuwait because he claimed Kuwait was slant drilling Iraqi oil and he intended to annex those oil fields. Islamic Kuwait had admitted to stealing Iraqi oil by such means but disputed the amount. Up to that point relations with the United States and Iraq were distanced, but not hostile. The process of his demonization to the American public began with the advent of the Presidency of oil man G.H. Bush...But he'd been a demon for two decades before then and we tolerated him as an alternative to what might have been...and what now may turn out to be. For better or worse this series of events have led us to this point in history. Why do I hesitate to celebrate?

I thank God it is not my fate to be the one to govern Iraq.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Bring it on!