Saddam
I've just been watching the tv images of Saddam's last moments and its really rather disturbing. He was an evil man, no argument about that, and if anyone deserved to die it was him, but I'm still shocked by it all.
It all seems incredibly pointless - I mean, the Iraqis have gone beyond Saddam in their in-fighting; its mostly shia v sunni now, so I can't see that it achieves anything by executing him. Surely they'd have been better off 'accidentally' shooting him when they found him, or leaving him in Fort Buttphuck, Idaho, in the custody of the merkins for the rest of his natural life.
The other thing that disturbed me was the fact that the executioners all wore balaclavas - I appreciate that in Iraq at the moment, you wouldn't want to be recognised as one of the hangmen, but it gave it the whole thing the appearance of some kangaroo-court, hardly the official behaviour of a national goverment.
And lastly, the most disturbing thing of all was watching Saddam, watching the face of a man as he goes to his death. Very very chilling.
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Very well said, I am feeling much the same myself.
I too felt the same way. It all seemed so, contradictory? Here we have a babaric man, so we kill him in a babaric fashion? I don't know, I'm a little reticent to weigh in on any of the death-penalty debate particularly in this case, but sheesh, it just felt wrong.
I have to say that when I was told about it the other day I had a real sense of shock too.
Fort Buttphuck, Idaho. I do believe I've been there.
Saddam should have been left in a little gray cell for the rest of his natural life, stewing in his memories of the golden days of his regime.
Yes, quite rightly said Sir. Still, looking at the pics of those Kurdish women and children he had gassed, I'm not sorry he's dead.
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