Posted on 01/02/2007 1:14:17 PM PST by tobyhill
Reporting for the Tuesday edition of CNNs "Newsroom," correspondent Arwa Damon labeled Saddam Husseins 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 Husseins 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 CNNs "Newsroom," correspondent Arwa Damon labeled Saddam Husseins 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!!!!
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