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"Chemical Ali" Executed by Hanging in Iraq

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 11:38:34 AM EST
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Ali Hassan al-Majeed, aka "Chemical Ali" has been executed by hanging in Iraq.

A cousin of Saddam Hussein, Ali had been convicted of genocide and murder. He was sentenced to death in several trials. His last conviction and sentence was a few weeks ago.

Ali remained in U.S. custody from 2003 until yesterday, when the U.S. turned him over to Iraqis to be killed.

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    It's (none / 0) (#1)
    by jbindc on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 11:46:32 AM EST
    kind of hard to pull up any sympathy for this.  Frankly, though, they only got to execute him once, yet he killed thousands of people and hurt thousands more.  Doesn't seem like a fair trade.

    What's the dues fee (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by jondee on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 12:25:07 PM EST
    for green lighting an Iraq invasion that killed, maimed, traumatized and displaced tens-of-thousands of people?

    When do the war crimes trials start for those who, with malice of intent, insured that Iraqi children in the nineties suffered and died needlessly due to the overly harsh sanctions we helped impose?

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    Completely irrelevnt to the post (none / 0) (#3)
    by jbindc on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 12:28:57 PM EST
    Chemical Ali was responsible for gassing and killing his own people, including thousands of children. He was sentenced to death 4 separate times. I will not lose sleep because this man no longer walks among us.

    This has nothing to do US foreign policy.

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    You must have missed the memo - (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 12:31:12 PM EST
    everything is about Bush. Or Rove. Whatever. Same thing.

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    Sloppy thinking there (none / 0) (#14)
    by jondee on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 12:52:01 PM EST
    And Bush and Rove weren't in the game in the nineties.

    That was the-greatest-administration-that-ever-was-or-ever-will-be.

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    Or Reagan. Whatever. Same thing. (none / 0) (#17)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 01:00:46 PM EST


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    Whatever is right (none / 0) (#18)
    by jondee on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 01:08:45 PM EST
    sorry to rain on that pure and righteous and free of hypocrisy parade.

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