Posted on 01/16/2007 6:45:45 AM PST by kellynla
International outrage last month followed the grisly execution of Saddam Hussein. United Nations and international moralists from France to Cairo were livid at the fifteen-century spectacle--and quickly blamed the United States for allowing the Iraqis to sully the punishment.
Sadly, the end of Saddam was indeed gross and undignified. Some creepy Shiite guards heckled him at the gallows and filmed his harrowing last moments. But Saddam's culpability for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents was never in doubt. And his execution was no Tombstone necktie party.
The court that convicted and executed him was authorized by an elected government. Its two-year-long proceedings were transparent and televised. Saddam himself often harangued and shouted down the judges.
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Too bad his head didn't pop off like his half-brother's. That would have really got the lefties worked up.
If anyone deserved to die at the end of a rope, it was Saddam.
He viewed himself as a man of destiny. Well, destiny sure as hell caught up with him.
Amen, brother! Right on point! Beautifully said! Take that, hypocrites!
That's what happens when you exault tolerance as the highest value.
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