The Disgraceful Execution of Saddam Hussein
Sometime today or early tomorrow, Saddam Hussein will be executed by hanging. In hanging Saddam Hussein the Iraqi authorities, complicit with the United States, will validate his life's work. They will be demonstrating, as he spent his life demonstrating, that might makes right and official murder is a proper tool of governance.
I will not go so far as to say that the Iraqi government will "become" like Saddam Hussein, because to my knowledge they will not torture him to death or execute him arbitrarily. After all, he did receive a fair trial for his monstrous crimes. Nevertheless, the moment the trap door opens beneath his feet, Saddam Hussein's world view will be vindicated. Instead of spending the rest of his life in a cell, eventually becoming a footnote with only the memory of his crimes to keep him company, Saddam will be given the chance to think to himself one last time "I was a great leader once, and now I am a martyr."
And that is the greatest injustice of all.
I will not go so far as to say that the Iraqi government will "become" like Saddam Hussein, because to my knowledge they will not torture him to death or execute him arbitrarily. After all, he did receive a fair trial for his monstrous crimes. Nevertheless, the moment the trap door opens beneath his feet, Saddam Hussein's world view will be vindicated. Instead of spending the rest of his life in a cell, eventually becoming a footnote with only the memory of his crimes to keep him company, Saddam will be given the chance to think to himself one last time "I was a great leader once, and now I am a martyr."
And that is the greatest injustice of all.
posted by Unknown | 7:23 PM
2 Comments:
Was that trial fair? Without any explicit knowledge, I don't think so. I think that the Bush Administration planned this all along, and the trial was just about as fair as the one in "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia."
Besides, there's this succinct summary of who Saddam truly was (sorry, I can't embed a link, you'll have to cut and paste it yourself)...
http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html
This kind of "cleanup" is typical of CIA-type operations, although even the CIA used to be cautious about wiping out former assets that were more trouble dead than alive.
Agreed. Whoever considered the dictator more helpful dead than alive obviously is unaware of his reach in some areas...
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