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Gone in 30 Days...
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So the appeal failed then and Saddam is off to the gallow in the next 30 days.
Now I don't hold with the death penalty, it is wrong. Simple as.
However, I won't shed any tears and I have to say that with Pinochet and Hussein going in the space of a few weeks, things are looking up for the planet. Just Castro to go next...
Now I don't hold with the death penalty, it is wrong. Simple as.
However, I won't shed any tears and I have to say that with Pinochet and Hussein going in the space of a few weeks, things are looking up for the planet. Just Castro to go next...
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Little surprise that the US government is celebrating the rejection of the appeal. There's nothing Uncle Sam likes better than a good old execution.
Except Richard Littlejohn?
That's not murder. That's pest control.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1979830,00.html
"A senior justice ministry official told Reuters that Saddam would not be executed until January 26 at the earliest, 30 days after the rejection of his appeal this week."
He's probably thinking that he'll be martyred.
:yes:
Man lives in a fantasy world and doesn't realise that the adulation from those huge crowds in the past was because of fear. I don't dispute for a minute the claims that hundreds of Iraqis have applied to be his executioner.
And Mengistu
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6175201.stm
Though given old Slobo met his maker 2006 was a bad year for despots http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4819158.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6218485.stm
I eagerly await Disillusioned's post "R.I.P"
Now he's gone with his head held high, with all the attention he adores, with the martyrdom that he wanted. That's why he didn't have a hood.
I'm not sad.
I agree.
(Well, he did before he was murdered).
BUT he wasn`t alone.
No doubt those who cheer and congratualate the Iraqis for this execution will think differently when their own time is up and they lay on their deathbed.
I don't think that the life of murderers and rapists is sacrosanct, and I'm not going to shed a single tear about this man going to his death.
It is also counterproductive. As you as others have pointed out it's making a martyr out of him- and depriving him of a lifetime in a jail cell, which would have been a far worse punishment for him.
Now I don't, I just hope it hurt.
But it is counterproductive.
How could he answer for any, when he didn't think that what he did was wrong?
The bubbly will be open in the MoK household for the passing of dictators in 2006, here's looking forward to a great 2007 too.
Doesn't make the death penalty right though. If it is a crime against humanity to kill your own citizens then the PM of Iraq has just committed another act...
Ah, the illusion of justice...
They know he's guilty, we know he's guilty. Everything else that happened, or would have happened, was a charade. Like Kermit said, a grenade in the bunker would have been much more productive.