Eric Allie has hit this squarely on the head with his cartoon.
Posted on 01/04/2007 11:15:44 AM PST by Borges
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's execution has had a mixed reaction in India. While the government expressed its disappointment over his execution, the Left and some sections of the Muslim community accused the US of masterminding the Iraqi leader's killing, and there were the Shiatte population in different Indian towns who expressed jubilation over the hanging.
But nowhere, probably not even in Iraq did an ardent supporter of Saddam express his or her loyalty and sorrow over the execution by taking his or her own life.
So it was quite surprising that a 15 year old girl from Kolkata's suburbs to kill herself in response to Saddam's execution, even though the city is well known for its anti-US feelings and stance.
According to a report by a foreign news agency, the girl, Moon Moon Karmarkar hanged herself for wanting to "feel the pain Saddam did during the execution".
"She said they had hanged a patriot. We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain, Saddam did during the execution," the girl's father Manmohan Karmakar was quoted as saying.
According to Manmohan, Moon Moon had become extremely depressed after watching Saddam's execution on television.
"She kept watching the scene over and again and didn't take food on Saturday and Sunday to protest the hanging," he said.
Police superintendent Pravin Kumar while confirming the suicide, said the girl had strung herself up from a ceiling fan and was found dead early on Wednesday.
Saddam was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday.
The former Iraqi President, ousted in April 2003 by a US-led invasion, was convicted in November for the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982.
An appeals court upheld the death penalty and the government rushed through the procedures to hang him by the end of the year and before the Eid al-Adha holiday on Saturday, coinciding with the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca.
However, Rizkar Mohammed Amin, who had presided over Saddam's trial earlier, said on Monday that the latter's execution was illegal as it was carried out during the Eid al-Adha festival period.
Amin, who was the first chief judge to preside over Saddam's trial, said Iraqi law banned executions during the festival.
When you want directions to hell, ask Tom Tom not Moon Moon.
"Moon Moon..."
You can't make this stuff up.
Is she any deader then the previous two times it was posted today?
This is, of course, Bush's fault.
From the article:
"According to a report by a foreign news agency"
And what MSM source would that be?
Now if we could just get all the Sadamm sympathizers to hang themselves!!!!!
Jamil Hussein?
Oops. Sorry.
Leni
I would kill myself if named Moon Moon--no wonder she was depressed.
Teenagers tend to be overwhelmed by emotion since they don't yet have the maturity to put things in perspective.
As always
Yep. Start with Pelosi, Scott Ritter, Murtha, Chris Matthews, Olberman, Howard Dean....the list is long.
Eric Allie has hit this squarely on the head with his cartoon.
Police superintendent Pravin Kumar while confirming the suicide, said the girl had strung herself up from a ceiling fan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5YRK_MzpFg
Yawn....
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