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.
River. Cry me one.
She's probably under sedation - the grief, you know.
You have a right to your opinion, but YES!~ 'We' did need to hang him.
To hang him like the Nazis who hanged for slaughtering their countrymen and others.
He was tried in Iraqi court, not ours.
If he had been allowed to die a natural death, it would have been seen as "the will of Allah to relieve him of the burden of captivity by the infidel", and definitely not the same thing as hanging him like the murderous criminal he was.
A "heart attack" or other 'health event' would have invited the same accusations Putin is hearing in regards to dead journalists and others.
Hanging is best.
And yet we fed him Doritos while he made a spectacle of the courts in Iraq.
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I wonder if the mandated respectful treatment of him by his guards wore him down mentally. I would like to think so. I would like to think that it tortured him, not to be able to break the character and training of the American servicemembers who interacted with him every day.
This is a great victory for the partnership of President Bush and the new Iraqi government! Everyone raise your mug of caffeinated (or alcoholic, depending on your time zone) beverage of choice and toast President Bush and free Iraq!
'Nother conspiracy theory.
Care to comment on the US-Soviet alliance against Germany in WWII?
It is a very weak argument to bring up what happened in the 1980s, when discussing the world of the Twenty-first Century.
Were you in Israel in 1991, living with your gasmask at your side every minute, in mortal fear of SCUD missiles fired on the command of Saddam?
The Hague has no jusidiction in the case which led to Saddam's conviction because it was against his own people, in his own country. Saddam was also on trial for the deaths of tens of thousands of other Iraqis, which would also have resulted in execution. If you want international justice for his attack on an Israeli, then you can have him posthumously charged at the Hague after the current trial is over and if no further Iraqi charges are pending.
I must say, you sound odly as though you want us to believe that because his trial wasn't conducted the way you want, on the charges you prefer, that justice was somehow not done. Ask the families of his victims if they feel justice was served.
Saddam paid $25 grand to the families of successful Pali homocide bombs, and was therefore directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israels on Israeli, not Iraqi, soil. The "international community" did not and never will acknowlege Saddam's role in exporting terrorism. If you're honest about your screen name, you shoud be glad the bloodthirsty b@stard son of a monkey and a pig is no longer stealing our oxygen.
As for vengence as opposed to justice, the difference is nothing but a semantic game.
As an American, your opionion of what the court system of Iraq, a sovereign country, does is not worth diddly squat. None of our opinions are. It's the Iraqis opinions that count: he was their tyrant and he's now hanging out in Hell and swinging with many other tyrants forced to face the justice of their own people.
There was no shooter on the grassy knoll this time. He will not be missed. The world is a marginally better place without him. I'm going to relax with my family and feel the good feeling that comes when you KNOW that, after 25 years of hoping that this day would come, it finally has.
Oh, and formatting is your friend. Have a nice day.
Your facts are only correct in that there are far more Shi'ites than Sunnis in Iraq. His trial, if you bothered to follow any of it, was as fais as the new court system could make it, because it was anticipated that the tinfoilers would boil out of the woodwork.
Saddam was trying, with some success, to destroy Israel BEFORE he was ever toppled. I too fear the violence that will probaably occur as a result of the Iraqi courts' decision, but remember. We should remember the violence that has come steadily before as well.
NOW I'm leaving. G_d be with you.
John Fox (Carolina Panthers Head Coach) must have written this statement.
I was hoping to see a combination of "they", "hung", "his", "hide".
I think Pelosi is crying in her pillow.
Bush Sr. said something in private that I would have loved to hear, I bet....
Additionally... wonder what the POS known as "dr." Ward Churchill has to say.
....the maniac brutally killed a bunch of people and now he's dead.
Some people will whine about anything.
Well said. Exacting justice is not about check-mating a sovereign. It's about taking him out of the game -- permanently. The Iraqi people and the rule of law have spoken, just as sure as the American People and the rule of law would have spoken here in similar circumstance.
>> ...I reported from Ground Zero... <<
You a reporter? That would explain your defense of an evil tyrant.
>> If there was ever "evil" in the world - in our time - it was not Saddam... <<
That is the dumbest statement I've read in a VERY long time.
Evil is evil. Period. Lowering innocent folk into plastic shredders is EVIL.
God used the people of Babylon to avenge the death of the innocent when King Manasseh of Judah was not forgiven for his evil. God then promised that those people (who were evil) would also be judged for that, and that lead to the destruction of Babylon WHICH GOD SAID WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT. Not necessarily hypocritical. Saddam was fighting against his enemies in Iran, he should never have terrorized his own people and abused the power of leader. He did get quite carried away.
Search the Bible for when God DOES NOT forgive. Only once in the Old Testament, twice in the New.
"Where's the statement from the socialist Pelosi?"
"Today a victim of American Oppression was illegally assassinated by a failed regime and a failed President who sought to kill a magnificent leader who did not possess weapons of mass destruction.
Saddams demise can only be measured in the amount of victims the Bush administration killed in response to an internal matter as dictated by the UN.
We will miss Saddams courageous stance against the Neocolonialists in the Bush administration and their Nazi Israeli brethren as they went on a crusade to convert millions of peace loving Muslims into Joos and Christians.
Saddam will be remembered for his leadership and guidance in this time of global instability caused by the Republicans"
I suggest taking some Pepto Bismol and avoiding this site altogether.
WE didn't try him under our Constitution The Iraqis tried him under theirs.
The Dems are truly a sick bunch of propagandists, who are indeed using Saddam's execution as political fodder.Yet if you show them pictures of gassed Kurds of Halapja, they go into a kind of dumb mind lock.
I look forward to many more executions of those Iraqis complicit in the gassing of thousands of Kurds.And I hope the pictures of the executed, swinging in a dry Iraqi wind, are circulated to every Muslim community of the face of this earth.
Halapja 1998:
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