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| Saddam's Public Execution |
| 12.18.03 (11:07 pm) [edit] |
[i]“We got him,”[/i] proclaimed U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremmer early Sunday morning. U.S. soldiers found the ever-threatening “Butcher of Baghdad” hiding underground in what commanding Lt. General Sanchez described as a spider or rat hole.
We should all rejoice for the world is safer now that Saddam Hussein is no longer holed up in his rodent infested farmhouse hideout. Out of power for months, unclean and unshaven the former dictator of Iraq is found guilty as charged and will suffer a public execution.
Although Saddam has yet to be charged for genocide or war crimes, his public execution comes swift and strong.
Across America, the thirst for Saddam’s blood is stronger than a Great White Shark’s sense of smell. To no one’s surprise, the [b]reactionary right [/b]is leading the charge. Already condemning him to death, they want Saddam to undergo the torturous treatment only seen by his victims.
For Saddam, they are willing to throw the Rule of Law out the window.
Must our nation lose its values of justice in order to satisfy the hunger of shameless war- mongers who now seek to carry out the very evil the Bush War was set out to defeat? Tune in to your local AM radio talk show.
You’ll hear them; Limbaugh, Hannity, Reagan, Savage and their scripted duplicates all pronouncing that Saddam’s punishment shall be death. And if he fails to provide substantial information to U.S. interrogators, then it shall be pulled out from him in the manner his regime tortured the Iraqi people.
The pulling of fingernails, the cutting of tongues, chopping of hands. Even further, they want Saddam to see the gruesome pictures of his reign of terror over the Iraqi people. Maybe they want to see Saddam get raped too.
You’ll hear the ambitious [i]“right”[/i] constantly comparing Saddam whom they brought down, to Adolph Hitler. And like captured members of the fallen Nazi Party, they want nothing short of public trials that produce public hangings.
You’ll hear them tickled pink at the site of the Saddam Hussein who emerged from that hole. Compassionate conservatives revealed. The [i]“right”[/i] has fixated on his appearance (think homeless man), his filthiness, his robe, the lice in his hair, and his cowardly non-use of a pistol that was found in his possession.
Men and women of good consciousness, beware. The apprehension of Saddam Hussein has bloodthirsty conservatives salivating at record levels. But the capture of Saddam Hussein is nothing more than the Trojan Horse of the Bush-Iraq war.
With no Weapons of Mass Destruction anywhere in sight, neo-cons need a fallback victory, no matter how shallow it might be. And this it. Saddam Hussein is no friend of humanity and deserves life long punishment that is harsh. But without those WMDs, the conservatives must prop up his capture as a defining moment in history so they can justify selectively bringing down one, out of a hundred brutal dictators found on any corner of the globe.
Whatever Saddam’s fate may be, he deserves nothing less than a fair trial and a natural life sentence in a prison with a good view of one of his many palaces. For now, the current public execution of the defeated Saddam Hussein seems fair and just.
--Proletariat
© E.D. Petty, 2003-2004
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posted by: RedTigress (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (11:30 pm)
I thought his fate will be decided by the Iraqi people. He hasn't been put to trial as of yet, let alone given a sentance to public execution.
Rash assumptions help no one.
posted by: Lost (reply)
post date: 12.18.03 (11:39 pm)
Yeah, I think they are going to talk to him and let Iraqi people deal with the trail and so it can be fair.
posted by: JamesYerian (reply)
post date: 12.19.03 (3:45 am)
I don't know of any bloodlust sweeping the country, except from the Left at Bush. Bush said it was up for the Iraqis to try Hussein as they want- and if they want to execute him, who are we-- or anyone- to tell them any differently?
Look, instead of conjuring up false pretenses just to bash Republicans just argue with facts, ok?
And the dreaded 'neo-cons' don't need a fallback story. Saddam had unaccounted for WMD, in violation of UN cease-fire. 17 UN resolutions later, he still did not verify. Nothing you say, no amount of idiocy will change that fact. It just so happens that Hussein didn't verify or cooperate with the UN because he is a bloodthirsty dictator.
And surely you can't be arguing that the US is SUPPOSED to go around upseating dictators left and right? I know, maybe we can try and remove Kim Jung Il, a truly bad guy? Oh wait! He has a nuke, thanks to that warm, fuzzy, we are the world Agreed Framework, pushed by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, that was violated from the get go by the North Koreans.
I don't see why you need a copyright on your viewpoints. No one would want to steal them.
posted by: question (reply)
post date: 12.19.03 (6:59 am)
Amen. And the interesting thing is that the Bush administration gets a free pass for aiding and abetting Saddam up in power in the first place. Bush I, Iraq I, Bush II, Iraq II.
posted by: question (reply)
post date: 12.19.03 (7:13 am)
You are right.
Dec 19: U-S says no decision on whether Iraqi war crimes tribunal will try Saddam... But President Bush has said details still need to be worked out before Saddam can be handed over to the Iraqis. He didn't give many specifics on how or when Saddam would be tried -- and neither did Negroponte.http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1571270
Any prosecution from an assigned court from the ruling council would lack legitimacy, because Iraq is an occupied country and there is no Iraqi constitution or government
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/12-2003/Article-20031219-8eb897bb-c0a8-01ed-0015-c5ec1c69fa5e/story.html
Bush: Saddam deserves 'ultimate penalty'http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=78806
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