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Reactions to Saddam Execution

The Guardian has this obituary for Saddam Hussein. The Times Online has another. The BBC obituary is here.

President Bush stayed up past his bedtime to release this statement insisting falsely that Saddam got a fair trial.

Worst headline: From Australia, "Iraqis Dance as Saddam Swings".

European leaders focus their comments on the death penalty.

Now what? More war, as usual, more U.S. soldiers will die, more billions of our dollars will be spent and we are not one bit safer.

We are all tainted by the vengeance in our name.

Update: From a soldier in Iraq:

"First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial," said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. "So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?"

The Catholic Church:

Saddam's execution punishes "a crime with another crime. ... The death penalty is not a natural death. And no one can give death, not even the state." - Cardinal Renato Martino, Pope Benedict XVI's top prelate for justice issues.

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    Fair trial? (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 04:50:59 AM EST
    Bush wouln't recognize a fair trial even seeing one unfold in front of his own eyes from the defendants chair. He's be gibbering and bawling like a snot nosed three year old for his daddy to come and save him.

    I am insulted by the fact that after all the lies from this cheap pathetic deceitful little killer automaton of a man that have been exposed over the years that he and his speech writers still have the gall and temerity to keep trying the same old insulting assumption that people are so stupid they cannot see through the utter manipulative bullsh*t, and even more incredulously insulted by anyone buying it.

    This is the level of respect that this piece of rancid foul stinking human refuse has for Americans and people around the world?

    treasonous cognitive dissonance. (5.00 / 3) (#4)
    by aahpat on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 07:27:30 AM EST
    "Now what? More war, as usual, more U.S. soldiers will die, more billions of our dollars will be spent and we are not one bit safer."

    We are getting less safe all the time.

    Consider this. Getting Saddam has additional costs that have not been tabulated when tallying the direct costs of the Iraq invasion. The treasonous abandonment of the Afghan campaign has directly resulted in this story at the LA Times this week. Afghan Heroin's Surge Poses Danger In US

    Heroin is now cheaper than pot.

    And a direct national security threat to the United States.

    "The Department of Homeland Security also has found evidence of increasing Afghan heroin in this country.  The agency reported skyrocketing numbers of seizures of heroin arriving at U.S. airports and seaports from India, not a significant heroin-producing country but a major transshipment point for Afghan drugs."

    With those growing new smuggling routes come new opportunities for alQaida to insert their operatives into America. This is the real border threat to America not worker immigrants.

    No, we are "not one bit safer". And the Hussein judicial assassination is nothing more than a treasonous distraction from the real threats CREATED by George W. Bush's mis-directed military excursion.
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    As to the "fair trial" assertions by the Bush administration. The administration and the GOP has held the rule of law in contempt from day one. Their standing up for fair trials and the rule of law now is stretching credulity to the point of cognitive dissonance.

    Criminals (none / 0) (#18)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 10:39:14 AM EST
    Not to forget that the guys who ran Iran Contra are running out government now. More drugs = Bigger slush funds for secret unauthorized activities, like Ghost Air, and the Secret prisons.

    I am sure that they have refined their system since then to make it more profitable and harder to trace.

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    I can't read the news today (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by aw on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 07:48:13 AM EST
    I look at the NYT first thing every morning and today there was a big picture of Saddam with a noose around his neck and I just had to close it.


    I'm with you. Just the sight of Saddam's (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Bill Arnett on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 12:50:27 PM EST
    executioners partying like there is no tomorrow just sickens me - almost as much as bush claiming Saddam got a fair trial.

    Mornin', aw, Edger, Dadler, Sailor, Squeaky, Che's, everybody. Another sad day to be an American.

    Take notice world: Become America's friend, we will supply you with weapons, chemicals, money, and whatever else you need, including CIA assistance, to overthrow your current government and install a puppet leader for you.

    But when it comes time to swing from the noose - you're on your own.

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    Up here in Vermont... (none / 0) (#37)
    by dutchfox on Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 07:18:35 PM EST
    ...his morning I glanced at the NYT front page and there was nada about the execution, just that it was gonna happen.

    I guess thankfully, I don't subscribe to cable tv, so saw none of the MSM photos of Saddam being captured and the other stuff around his trial. To be sure he was a tyrant, but I do think that he was also made out to be some sort of degenerate inhuman person (that pic of him in the hovel when he was captured 3 yrs ago) - maybe to make people feel less guilty about asphyxiating him.

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