Posted on 01/03/2007 4:56:23 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
THE White House today bluntly dismissed the international outcry over the way Saddam Hussein was executed as elevating his "last two minutes" above his brutal, bloody decades in power.
"He got justice," spokesman Tony Snow said, amid criticisms of widely seen footage showing Saddam's Shiite captors mocking him during his last minutes alive and hailing an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who leads a major militia.
"There seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 (years), in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people. That's why he was executed," said Mr Snow.
The spokesman noted that a US general in Baghdad had said US forces "would have done it differently" and that Iraq's Government had expressed "some qualms" about the events at the execution.
"The (Iraqi) Government is investigating the conduct of some people within the chamber. And I think we'll leave it at that," said Mr Snow. "But the one thing you've got to keep in mind is: He got justice."
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What if it becomes accepted fact among Iraqis that not only was Sadr's name chanted, he was there and participated? That is what is going around on Iraqi blogs, and the video evidence is pretty convincing. Whether it is true or not, the Iraqis are coming to believe it, and that is not in our interests.
It was the US that ended his decades of murder. Not Iraqi's who had suffered under his regime. And here were Sadr hangmen chanting the slogans of a man whose group murders Americans on a daily basis. This is why many are offended by the conduct observed while bringing justice to Saddam.
Remember it was ok to kill David Korish and his cult because there was a rumor of child abuse.
Better to kill the children than have rumors of the children being abused.
Sheesh
I think even old Saddam knew it. Notice how game he died. He was probably standing there with the noose around his neck thanking his lucky stars that it was nothing but empty space below, as opposed to an industrial shredder or a vat of acid.
What will they say when we drop a bunker buster on the mullahs in Iran?
Tony. - I'm sorry.
Without our values and honor, what exactly does one say made the history and present state of Western culture the greatest, most valued and successful juggernaut to ever inhabit this planet and instill those values penned by the great men who wrote our Constitution?
A basic test was failed here. - True, Saddam richly deserved death, but this was a small fratricidal thuggery, and something that is, or should be, repugnant to us.
We would not have strung up Hitler, Stalin, or the movers of the killing fields in this manner, and you have to know that Tony.
Even execution should have a certain dignity to it, or it is little more than a banana republic mugging.
Once again Tony, although you are a member here, I do not expect a response from you.
You and I might not, but the Iraqis who were there did.
That is their culture, not ours.
We respect human life, so much that we allow our convicted murderers numerous appeals...lasting 15, 20 or longer years before they meet their maker.
We shouldn't be trying to Americanize the Iraqi way of death...they're different from us, they're Islamists and they kill wantonly. They don't respect human life, dignity or much else.
We've been trying to drag them, kicking and screaming, towards FREEDOM, LIBERTY and DEMOCRACY, however, for some silly reason they insist on killing themselves over religion.
Damn stupid people and I'm frankly getting a little tired of our fantastic military and President getting blamed for their inability to take charge of their own country.
These Islamic fanatics hated the USA and Israel long before Saddam and it isn't going to end anytime soon. Don't quite remember where I heard it, maybe on Medved's show (he has a way of making the hard to understand simple...) but he explained why Islam hates the West and Israel in particular.
Seems the Koran says the Jews will NEVER get a country or land of their own. But, Israel is a fact of life and that contradicts their infallible Koran...so Israel must go so that their religion is correct. That's what it's all about...they can't stand their Koran saying something that isn't true..
End Rant...-30-
I think it happened after the fact. Also, the Iraqi executed Saddam, not the US.
The execution was swift justice which is what we need. I have sympathy for the whiners and Tony is absloutely correct.
Where is this in the 10 commandants? Saddam deserved everything he got and more.
Why not? Evil, mass murderers deserve humilitation.
Of course that is a good thing--Saddam's death. But if the Sunnis come to believe that Sadr' name was not only chanted but that he was made a part of the execution, then it is little different than the countless sectarian murders performed by his henchmen. If Sadr is in so much control of the government that he was allowed to participate, then there is no hope this government can unify the country or put him down. The de facto division of the country into three will continue. All we can do is delay it, which I see as a pointless excercise.
You don't humiliate a person facing death..
You didn't answer the question.
I think this is over the top. We didn't handle the execution, the Iraqis did. Basic justice was done.
We would have done it differently. So what? I don't see the press whining and bitching about the thousands of other executions that take place in the Arab world, with stonings, beheadings, and revenge killings as common as mud. No, they only complain about executions when they can use them to smear President Bush.
That's the way they do thngs. If the reporters don't like it, let them go over to some Arab country and complain, and see what happens to them. As long as basic justice was done, it's not up to the President to attack an ally over what happened. A few words in private should suffice.
If they didn't chant Moqtada It would have been some other nutcase conspiracy theory then...The nut case Saddam supporters will be out there no matter how hard you try to convice them otherwise.
The word should go forth from this point that any dictator who conspires, seeks to conspire or even pretends to conspire with terrorists who seek to harm the United States or US citizens can expect to suffer the same fate as Saddam Hussein.
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