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have said that it was the Americans who
questioned the political wisdom - and justice - of expediting the
execution....
well, duuuuuh!
I think you are being irrational. First, Americans are f***wits for
*causing* Saddams execution--when, in fact, it was the Iraqi's legal
system which sent him to the gallows--and then you react sarcastically
to information that contradicts your worldview. This means:
1) you are in your sophomore year of college or younger
2) you've never had a job that mattered
3) you've never seriously considered the concept of "consequence"
How much intelligence, honestly, does it take to realise that the last
FUCKING thing you do is hand Saddam over to a bunch of Cro-Magnons and
expect them not to completely screw things up?
So you are a philosopher racist? Where's the love of diversity? Why
take such an ethnocentric view? The Iraqi legal system may not be the 7
appeals and 20 years-of-extra-life-at-taxpayer-expense wonder-machine
that is Justice in the US, but it is how their culture views the notion
of expedient justice.
I mean, c'mon, this is grade school ABC stuff. This whole legal fiasco
was completely predictable from step one.
You are correct. But the same was said of anyone brought to trial
during Saddam's reign. Now, the major difference is that there was an
ACTUAL court proceeding that led to the punishment. Under Saddam,
people just disappeared into jails.
Honestly, I did not even bother to follow his trial very closely. I
caught snippets here and there. I saw he was being denied his rights,
and I FULLY expected that that trial would eventually be thrown out and
he would receive a new trial and serve the rest of his life
incarcerated.
And...what rights was he denied? Saddam was belligerant, disruptive,
and paranoid. But he was denied the 'right' to shoot everyone in the
court-room. =)
I didn't honestly expect that they would actually go through with his
execution - that took me completely by surprise.
Iraq and Texas...they're like, whole other countries, an' stuff.
And then I am treated to the lunatic ravings of psychotic Americans who
actually think what happened was a good thing.
Saddam was brought low. From a childhood of abuse and poverty, he rose
up and usurped the control of an oil-rich nation. By his iron-fist, he
enforced a secular direction for Iraq, and killed many who opposed his
dominance. He brought death and science. Brutality and literature. The
Iraqis starved, while Saddam built palaces of great beauty.
In the end, he hid in a hole. His sons were but dust in the wind, his
palaces inhabited by others, his wealth as useless as a bag of potato
chips to a deep-sea diver. He lived by the sword, and died by it. And
there is sadness there, and compassion to be had even for one so
monstrous as Saddam, but the 150 Shia he was convicted of killing had
never received anything approaching even a half-assed monkey trial.
Christ, I'm SO ready to read of nuclear weapons exploding in American
cities TODAY!
As I stated earlier, you must be young. And you may be white. For the
only group that is so angry at itself that it welcomes annihilation is
young white Americans. Now think about this, if your attitude is *so*
noticable that I even cared to guess your identity, how do you think it
got to be that way? Is your self-loathing yours and genuine, or have
you been taught that you, YOU, are responsible for the condition of the
entire planet?
Yes, I obviously hate your freedom. Oh, just ***** now... Amelicans!
Me? I'm not angry at you. I was in the same school system. I was taught
that everything that was accomplished by europeans was due to
enslavement, genocide, colonialism (as a negative), bigotry, hatred,
domination, etc.
After 12 years of that, then we go on to even "higher" education. ;)
Where that message is re-enforced.
You...you are a puppet. You are repeating what you "teachers" have
drilled into you. You are not to blame, any more than I could blame an
ATM for not making more cash magic itself into my bank account. Hope
you wake up soon.
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