Posted on 01/04/2007 9:34:57 PM PST by 21stCenturyFreeThinker
WASHINGTON -- Of the 6 billion people on this earth, not one killed more people than Saddam Hussein. And not just killed, but tortured and mutilated -- doing so often with his own hands and for pleasure. It is quite a distinction to be the pre-eminent monster on the planet. If the death penalty was ever deserved, no one was more richly deserving than Saddam Hussein.
For the Iraqi government to have botched both his trial and execution, therefore, and turned monster into victim, is not just a tragedy, but a crime -- against the new Iraq that Americans are dying for, and against justice itself.
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LOL!!!
No. But you'd better hurry or someone will beat you to it;
ENTREPRENEUR ROLLS OUT SADDAM HANGING DOLL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762684/posts
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CK is very intelligent, but his underwear is stuck WAY up his ass.
He needs to loosen up.
This wasn't botched.
This is what hangings have been like in most parts of the world for thousands of years.
We just are shocked because we think we are more "civilized" with our doctors putting people to sleep.
Well, there is some good to this "uncivilized" sort of hanging, ESPECIALLY the humiliation they put Saddam through.
The news reports indicated that the president did in fact sign the document, regardless of his personal weenie liberal views on the death penalty.
I tend to agree with you.
However, I thought it should have been a public hanging. Especially since so many witnesses were waiting to testify against Saddam .. and with this hanging they would not get the chance. While being public might have presented security issues, staging it in a brightly lit, public place - and filming it for posterity - would have been a better solution - IMHO.
I saw a military guy being interviewed on FOX and he stated that he believed "we would have done it differently" .. but he never elaborated on what that would have been.
But .. it's a very sad take on our country when even one person believes hanging Saddam was a bad thing.
Well, you've read mine, so you know how I stand.
I could have used a little more of that Mussolini oomph!
I didn't expect the trial coverage would be presented like the O.J. trial, but it was just left alone and allowed to happen, through all its bloody twists and turns, and our own government seems to have bowed out of any interest in the actual details of what transpired in the trial.They choose a small and relatively simple case so they could convict and hang him. If they had wanted more press coverage they could have convicted him on the genocide charges. It would have taken longer though.
I KNOW (at least as rumored) that we didn't want it to happen as it happened, so suddenly and crudely, with the sectarian revenge motif taking center stage.Good point. The Malaki government really put us in a no win situation. If we intervened to delay the execution it would look like we were pulling the strings on a puppet government. Not intervening looked like we were blessing a sectarian act of revenge.
I Agree,Something is in the Works that is going to blow the Doors of the Anti-War Dems,I Could see it in GW's Demeaner at the Merkel Q&A,I have not seen him this way since 2000.Sadr(OrsonWells)must be Dealt with now that
Sad H. is gone.The Dems are Dying to pull troops,Pelosi stated it at her Swearing,Murtha is going too investigate every dollar spent,GW must have an Ace he has been holding.
They've learned from their mistakes. The next time they execute Saddam, they'll do it right. ;)
Funny, how all the neocons who led the charge to get us into this mess can now easily find someone else to blame it on.Very true. His conclusion (We should not be surging American troops in defense of such a government) does have more than a little cya written on it.
My Cow! Even Krauthammer is hand wringing over this? Get a grip, America! Saddam was a POS and the Iraquis flushed him. Does everybody kiss their turds goodbye these days? Is that how wussified America is? People put a nice farewell card in the crapper before they flush?
How can people over here understand that not all Sunnis were in the Baath Party? There are now only a few die hards who supported Sadaam, and most of them were tribally connected around Tikrit, if I am not mistaken. If this were not so , there would have been riots in the streets, right? The impression I get here Allegra, is that the Saudis are very worried about a Shia dominated Iraq.You got straight to the heart of the matter.
Frankly, the global Left wanted Hussein to remain alive so that his Ba'athist insurgents would continue to wage their terror war as ardently as possible...so that the American Right would be dealt a political blow at the expense of American blood.If it were only American politics you might be right. But the real problem is Iraqi politics.
They are all wetting the bed. Ding Dong their witch is dead, and nobody really cares that their witch was mocked or ridiculed while being hanged, particularly considering his own personal atrocities.
Chuck's protestations are laughable, and certainly not deserving of my respect.
The things people choose to care about.
The REACTION TO the hanging is what is out of hand, NOT the hanging itself!!
And the DBM is in no SMALL part the reason for it!!
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