When President Bush follows your advice, I´ll consider to do so too. Until then, I feel allied with him by criticizing the taunting of an executionee. Saddam was about to pay the highest price for his crimes, and we´re supposed to keep our dignity alltime, even when we hand somebody over to eternity.
By the way, Saddam wore good clothes when he died, and he got a last meal - because he was still guared by US soldiers then.
I wasn't giving any advice, just an opinion. Bush was giving his and I am giving mine, which is just as valid. Simple as that.
Until then, I feel allied with him by criticizing the taunting of an executionee. Saddam was about to pay the highest price for his crimes, and we´re supposed to keep our dignity alltime, even when we hand somebody over to eternity.
That is easy to say in the comfort of one's home distant from Iraq and in no way connected emotionally with the tyrant. If I had been in that room and had relatives murdered by this monster, I would have voiced, at a minimum, my hatred of him.
"...and we´re supposed to keep our dignity alltime, even when we hand somebody over to eternity." You mean like the orderly well run Nazi concentration camps, which carried out the execution of millions with factory like precision and no emotion? Since when is a justified emotional outburst a loss of dignity? Can you possibly understand the passion and emotion of the victims' relatives who have lived for 25 years under a monster? Was Saddam abused in any way except for a few verbal taunts?
As I stated earlier, the Italians hung Mussolini and his girlfriend from a lamp post. The Romanians captured Ceausescu and his wife on Dec 22, 1989 and on December 25 the couple were hurriedly tried and convicted by a special military tribunal on charges of mass murder and other crimes. Ceausescu and his wife were then shot by firing squad. I don't recall any handwringing by the Western elite on the lack of dignity in either case.