Bush says death of Saddam like revenge killing

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1/17/07 | Graeme Baker and Malcolm Moore

[madison10]

Sometimes justice IS revenge. Admittedly, the jeering was undignified and did not look as if the system of justice was impartial...but that's in an American's eyes.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

I guess we shouldn't have killed him then, huh? He shouldn't have been punished for his crimes? Would lethal injection have been a better method? I guess you could even say there was no need to go to war: no WMD, Saddam wasn't really a brutal dictator who got what he deserved, the Iraqi people loved living under his rule.

Some people really disgust me. Right now, I cannot tell the difference between Bush, some people on FR and the Dummies...everyone seems to want to practice suttee and throw themselves on Saddam's casket while it burns in the fires of hell. I am more than happy to feed the flames.

Saddam got much less than he deserved. His death was dignified compared to the deaths his victims ever experienced. To deny that fact is utter hypocrisy and a slap in the face to all of the innocent civilians who were murdered by him. A real man would acknowledge it instead of crying over it, trying to appease the leftist PC crowd. It's obvious what trying to give dignified deaths to our enemies has done in Iraq. After all, that has been the tactic for the past few years, preventing our soliders from fully engaging and taking out the Islamofacists. Meanwhile, Americans are burned and hung (something in common with Saddam, gasp!) from a bridge, which is such a dignified way to die. I guess I shouldn't be at all fazed by the president's pussyfooting.

[Alia]

He added that the two men had been rushed to execution in order to protect the names of several international companies who had sold chemicals to Iraq. He said he had evidence from the FBI centre in Qatar that companies in the UK, the US, Holland, France, Germany and Italy had sold chemicals which were later used in the Anfal campaign in which as many as 100,000 Kurds were killed. He said the naming of the companies would have been part of the defence strategy if Saddam and Barzan had lived to testify in the trial.

Mark.

[TheDon]

WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA...Saddam was executed...WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA

What else matters?

[jdm]

I thought he said he didn't even watch the execution. WTF³

[NonValueAdded]

No argument with what you say but it makes little sense for GWB to point that out via the media. Not very multi-culti of him, either. Jeez, if a cartoon can set those mutts off, what will open Presidential criticism do?

[metmom]

Ummm, no.

He went to trial and was found guilty, as he ought to have been. Then he was executed according to their own laws.

This was justice, not revenge.

[tickmeister]

That's the part that caught my eye also. How does that square with the "no weapons of mass destruction" caterwauling that we keep hearing?

I agree Saddam got less than he deserved. He rightfully should have been turned over to some of those he tortured and they could have taken him down to the woodworking shop and amused themselves for a while. Still, if the government was going to kill him, they should have done a dignified job. Bush is right.

[PissAndVinegar]

"For Iraqis these days, that was dignified."

I'm curious - how many Iraqis do you know personally?

Or is your statement based on what you've learned from the MSM?

[Delta 21]

Yeah, revenge for trying to kill my daddy!

HA HA

[PissAndVinegar]

I'm no bushbot but support about 90% of his policies.

You're beginning to wonder cause I fear he's gone into legacy preservation mode. He's got 2 yrs to solidify his legacy and he doesn't want the left making his legacy a "failed war".

If Iraq doesn't get cleaned up soon, I'm fearing the useful idiots of this country will put a Dem in office.

I guarantee over the next 2 yrs we'll (unfortunately) be seeing a different Bush than the past 6

[DTogo]

Bush has lost his marbles, long after his Conservative principles...

[PAR35]

If one of us had posted such a comment, we would have been accused of Bush bashing.

[RetiredArmy]

Bush is losing it. He is taking a long walk on a short trial to the dark side. Beyond fighting the bad guys, he has lost my support. If he were running for another term, I simply could not in good conscience vote for him.

[lightman]

I think he got off easy.

For Iraqis these days, that was dignified.

Headfirst through the shredder and into a pond of pig$hit would have been more appropriate.

[beelzepug]

"So when he was governor of Texas..."

So, you're saying that because he let the Texas courts administer justice (their job) without his meddling in it (not his job) that he is somehow guilty of revenge killing? That's quite a stretch, don't you think? Or do you favor the sort of activism that thwarts the will of the people?

[NY Attitude]

Was that Sadr that slipped the noose around Saddam's neck?

[onedoug]

How about getting on with the WOT and Iran. I'll hold the RESPECT until we win this damned war.

[Bosco]

It's based on their current treatment of each other. Usually it's a group kidnapping, shot and bodies dumped somewhere.

[amchugh]

Bush probably condemned this not because he cares about how Saddam died (nor should he), but because from the acccounts I've read about the video it ccomplished two things that are against our interests.

1) Saddam looked like the only mature guy in the room; not good for him to go out on a high note.

2) It casts doubts on the credibility of the Iraqi government trying him in the first place. If they can not control the impartiality of the execution, then did they control the impartiality of the trial? By extention this reflects on us. We already have credibility issues in the Middle East, this is not helping

Anyway, even the best of us succumb to mockery and derision of those who are about to be executed.