Posted on 12/29/2006 9:55:42 PM PST by jdm
Statement of President Bush on the death by hanging of Saddam Hussein, as provided by the White House:
Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial — the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.
Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule. It is a testament to the Iraqi people's resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial. This would not have been possible without the Iraqi people's determination to create a society governed by the rule of law.
Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops. Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the War on Terror.
We are reminded today of how far the Iraqi people have come since the end of Saddam Hussein's rule and that the progress they have made would not have been possible without the continued service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.
Many difficult choices and further sacrifices lie ahead. Yet the safety and security of the American people require that we not relent in ensuring that Iraq's young democracy continues to progress.
BTTT
"WE" didn't hang Saddam..or did you miss the trial?
You posted very,very old news..I yawned. I join in your prayer.
Unless my facts are incorrect, Saddam was apprehended by US Armed forces and imprisoned by them. He was then turned over to Shi'ite muslims for execution. Shi'ite muslims also presided over his "trial" - "crimes against humanity."
How can a sect of muslims who wish Saddam dead, judge him for "crimes against humanity"? Saddam should have been tried in an international court in the Hague.
The more I see here, the more I get nauseous.
If Rumsfeld and Reagan supported Saddam in the 80's then would that make both our past and present administrations guilty by association? I ain't gonna go down this path as one can then accuse Ariel Sharon for all that happened at Sabra and Shatila.
Please understand, I am no liberal. But I do follow the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights.
How did hanging Saddam Hussein make the world any safer?
We are missing our original target: Bin-Laden.
No word about him from the White House ;>
I like Bush - a lot!
But hanging (handing) Saddam over the Shi'ite's is not what I would call American justice. Bush made a mistake on this one. He's human. Just pray that it does not cost the US or Israel any troops or civilians.
Best wishes for a peaceful and secure 2007 from Israel.
LOL!
Thank you President Bush and The Armed Forces of The United States of America and The Coalition Partners for making this moment possible.
When Iran was the larger threat, it made sense to support Iraq (and Hussein) in some small ways. Once it became apparent that Saddam was the larger imminent threat, he moved to the forefront of our opposition, as proved by the SEVENTEEN resolutions the world issued to him.
Here's a thought you might entertain...relationships between people evolve.
The pretenses were not false.
It's not about being more safe...it's about knowing there will be a reckoning for your actions, that you can't kill with impunity. History will judge? Sounds like you already did.
Bin Laden is dead.
Your statement is true as far as it goes, but then why ever would you think Saddam was entitled to "American justice"? He was not in any way entitled to the benefits of our Constitution or the protection of our courts. He was an adversary in war, captured, considered to be a war criminal, and dealt with accordingly. War is a return to the state of nature, the only "rules" in war are the constraints we voluntarily impose upon ourselves.
Prior to Saddam, there was Adam and Eve.
And Satan.
And God.
You know, if God didn't create, we'd not be in this mess and there would be no war in the Middle East.
I wonner how God would be judged by the Hague.
THE HAGUE?
Do you really care what The Hague has to say? Good Lord... How do you think Israel would be treated by The Hague?
Would the world be any safer if Saddam had been kept alive?
They had elections in Iraq, you know. It was in all the papers. America didn't hang him any more than Spain, who helped America gain its Independence, is responsible for us hanging John Billington
John Billington came on the Mayflower with his wife Ellen and children John and Francis. The Billingtons are recorded as a contentious family. Young Francis Billington nearly blew up the Mayflower while it was sitting in Provincetown Harbor--he shot off a gun near an open barrel of gun powder inside the Mayflower's cabin. Shortly after settling down at Plymouth, John Billington the elder was charged with contempt when he bad-mouthed and insulted Myles Standish, and was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together, but he humbled himself and was forgiven. A few months later, John Billington the younger wandered off into the woods, and was taken by the Nauset Indians to Cape Cod, where he lived for about a month before he was returned.
In 1624, John Billington the Elder was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal, in which blasphemous letters were secretly being written and sent to England trying to undermine the Plymouth Colony. However, Billington claimed he was a scapegoat, and there was not enough evidence to show he was a party to the scandal so the matter was dropped.
In 1630, John Billington the Elder was tried and executed for the murder of John Newcomen, whom Billington had shot with a musket in a quarrel over a past dispute between the two. He was found guilty by a grand and petty jury, "by plain and notorious evidence", and became the first Englishman to be hanged in New England.
You state that bin-Laden is dead.
I pray with every inch of my heart that you are correct.
I can still smell the stench of death and hear the drillhammers as I reported from Ground Zero hours after the towers fell.
If there was ever "evil" in the world - in our time - it was not Saddam - it is the bin-Ladens, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and members of Hezbollah who have struck innocent civilians in New York, Washington, Turkey, Bali, France, Spain, London, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is those in Iran, who as I write this post, defy the UN and the Western world as they build nuclear weapons to "wipe Israel off the map."
If bin-Laden is really dead - please post the link ;>
I disagree. At least bin Laden killed for a cause, as misguided as it may have been to pervert his religion into an excuse for murder.
Saddam killed many more and just to hold onto power. That's more evil than a miguided crusader.
bin Laden is dead or he would have shown himself somewhere alive to spit in the face of America. These "videos" that are purported to be he are more amatuerish than a Max Headroom skit.
Of course the actions of Saddam were evil. Are you trying to tell us his actions were not evil?
Join the club! Membership just requires the ability to talk about humanity's inhumanity to man and do nothing about it. There's a dead nun out there wondering why no-one came to her aid.
The Pope should have kept his mouth shut..because talking softly without carrying a big stick is just talk.
Speaking on Vatican Radio, Lombardi said Saddam’s death “will not help efforts aimed at justice and reconciliation” and “risks increasing violence.” He also reiterated the Vatican’s opposition to the death penalty.
She's making sure everyone gets the same fax and e-mail that shows Bush as the tyrant.
The socialist want-a-be dictator Pelosi.
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