Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-12-29 22:27:45 +0000
RIP Saddam???
Hussein is dead.
Executed by hanging at about 10 pm EST.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-12-30 01:03:57 +0000
a real tragedy. he will be missed.
Posted by tgl on 2006-12-30 09:19:35 +0000
Guilty of killing 148 people.
It's a shame that the Iraqi government decide to kill Hussein before he could stand trial for all his crimes. He left before being confronted with another couple hundred thousand victims. Was this sort of justice worth the price?
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OK, mission accomplished. We can now leave.
Posted by tgl on 2006-12-30 09:21:52 +0000
Agreed. We will need a new boogey man. The American people have been gunning for Hussein for over a decade, can anyone name the leader of Sudan?
I guess it's back to Iran. Fashion is so cyclical.
Posted by tgl on 2006-12-30 10:20:51 +0000
The Vatican agrees.
Not sure Hussein matters anymore. Shiites wanted him dead. Sunnis hated him for losing to the US and sweeping Sunnis from power in Iraq. Kurds wanted him dead, and are disappointed he's not to be tried for the Anfal Campaign, but not so disappointed they will riot over it.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-12-30 11:30:05 +0000
I hear Judith Regan got to talk to him before his last week alive and managed to interview him.
The ghostwritten "If I committed Genocide on my own people, Here's How I would Do It" Should be in Stores by Easter...
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-12-30 14:29:05 +0000
As long as Osama is loose, we have an unlocatable boogeyman who we can blame verything on.
Posted by Honar the librarian on 2006-12-30 14:34:18 +0000
I keep saying this, but no one will listen...Osama is running a Kwik Stop in Fort Worth.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-12-30 14:34:38 +0000
Man - someone has to book that guy's Oprah appearance like, circa pronto.
I agree-- pretty soon Iran is going to have a Iraqui holocaust denial conference.
Speaking of the holocaust-- in Berlin there are street corners with brass plaques in the ground naming people who had been taken from their homes on that street. It is meant as a kind of street corner rememberance bringing the holocaust home to the current residents. It was actually really moving, in a low-key way.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-12-30 18:37:14 +0000
Great angle, buzz. The execution of Saddam shines even more light on the failures to apprehend the Sept 11th terrorists.
Yet, Saddam was the boogeyman. Osama is a terrorist killer.
Posted by tgl on 2006-12-30 21:06:16 +0000
RE: Osama on the loose.
Total, eternal, war. The Evangelicals have won.
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-12-30 23:55:23 +0000
It's really hard to find a guy on dialysis in the mountains of Afghanistan, I'll have you all know.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-01-08 18:08:00 +0000
Was making Saddam a martyr a good idea?
I say no. Probably should have let him rot in jail...
Posted by MF DU on 2007-01-08 18:12:49 +0000
Is there any evidence that this throng of people wouldn't have worshipped Sadaam if he was rotting in some jail?
I too am dismayed that he was killed just recently - Too bad it wasnt done a long time ago.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-01-08 18:35:14 +0000
I'm against the death penalty, so I know I'm in the minority here, but...
...am I the only person on RSD who found this whole hanging debacle utterly depressing and horrifying? I mean, is there anyone anywhere who takes pleasure in seeing a human being killed, regardless of what that person's done or who's doing the killing?
I wouldn't want to see images of Hitler committing suicide either, by the way.
Posted by tgl on 2007-01-08 18:50:20 +0000
I'm with you pamsterdam, you might like this James Carroll opinion from today's Glob.
Posted by cdubrocker on 2007-01-08 18:53:47 +0000
I also find this Death on Parade mentality that's going on pretty ghastly. See also: framed death shots of Hussein's sons. Blech.
Posted by tgl on 2007-01-08 18:55:42 +0000
Well, there wasn't as many throngs of people worshiping Hussein when he _was_ rotting in some jail. So I would say, yes, there is evidence that the lynching of Hussein by the Shia-controlled government has produced more Hussein worshipers within the Sunni minority.
<sarcasm>
If only the US had taken him out before we sold him all those weapons he killed all those people with.
<sarcasm/>
UPDATE: or should that by cynicism?
Posted by tgl on 2007-01-08 18:55:58 +0000
Leave it to the conservatives to usher in this "Culture of Death".
Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-01-08 19:16:11 +0000
Yes! That's precisely what it reminded me of - lynchings. Thanks for the link, tgl.
On a somewhat related note, I found out over the weekend that I share my birthday with Emmett Till.
Posted by tgl on 2007-01-08 19:20:38 +0000
CC, I don't think the US could have prevented this revenge killing. We are responsible in that we helped to usher in this new government. It's unfortunate that the US presence could not have delayed this action. It's also unfortunate that the Iraqi government has veto power over our Commander-in-Chief, but that's another thread.
We've created a government in Iraq where the power of the majority trounces the right of the minority to equal access to the law. At least in America, the majority is egalitarian in that it accepts anyone with enough money. In Iraq, you need to be in Maliki's Shiite tribe.
Hussein had done onto him as he as did onto others, surely, but I don't see why the US should take his regime has an example of how to do business.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-01-08 19:28:10 +0000
Evidence:
Slobodan Milosevic didn't go into the martyr column, and he died rotting in jail.