Il Duce and friends, on display - Milan, April 1945.
It was rushed and botched (because Saddam was may have been "taunted"). Laws were ignored. It'll just make things worse. And check out the snark in paragraph four -- the author says there's no real difference between the actions of Saddam and the actions of the new government, only a difference in their paths to power.
Personally I'm glad Saddam is gone.
Everyone would be better off if the Sunnis offed al Sadr.
I am glad he is gone too, befor e he could be freed by some Sunni team. It is too bad the idiot Shiites couldn't conduct things in a better fashion, still it was ten thousand times better than being thrown off a building and a million times better than being ground up by a chipper.
Gosh, New York Times, get with the new multiculturalism. Taunting people at hangings is S.O.P. in Iraq. And in most of the rest of the Arab world.
Please, don't try to impose your snooty western values on them. Be a little more broad-minded.
I wish they had put panties on his head or made him pile up with a bunch of nekked prisoners. Screw the feelings of the throat slittin arab street.
I thought our mission was to create a viable democracy in Iraq? If so, the chanting of sectarian slogans during Saadam's well deserved end was akin to spitting on our troops. Many have died in an attempt to better than country but the executioners' behavior, as recorded on cell phone cams, makes the task all the more harder.
It's entertaining to me to see how the same media that excoriated the Serbs now feels sorry for the Sunnis in Iraq. This minority group maintained a decades-long tyranny over the majority of the people in Iraq. No wonder the Sunnis are worried now.
It is simply BS NYT tripe. Nothing else. They cannot come out and admit they were rooting for Saddam at the NYT all along, so they have to write it the way they did.
The key thing to keep in mind is that they are ALL liberals at the NYT, and liberals are liberals BEFORE they are Americans. That is why so many liberals (including the liberal Supreme Court Justices) are gung-ho for a single world government like the UN.
Like all liberals, they are disturbed that it took two years and not twenty or more to try, convict and carry out the sentence.
Like all liberals, they are upset that the death penalty was actually carried out. Now there can be no more "Free Saddam" signs like the "Free Mumia" signs liberals are so fond of.
Like all liberals, the writers and workers at the NYT are deeply saddened.
I am too.
Saddam should have been handed over the the families of people who were fed into that plastic shredding machine (like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hnCT6a9Co ) by Saddam and his henchmen.
It's so typical of these people to do this ~