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This hanging is wrong

Niel Jones | 31.12.2006 09:06

it contaminates us all

Blair-Bush hanging
Blair-Bush hanging


This hanging is wrong.

We are all scum now.

As long as we allow this Psychotic sycophantic Bush fool to rule us we are complicit in a foul murder committed on our t v screens before breakfast for the New Year.

I can’t tolerate any more of this.

He must go now before he soils us anymore.


Niel Jones

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medieval

31.12.2006 10:51

feel a terrible sense of foreboding about the hanging of saddam hussein. i believe that we have descended to medieval style savagery by going along with this. the iraqis were never capable of running a fair trial during what is, in effect, a civil war, And we see american style wild west fingerprints all over this.
its just wrong. And will make things worse.

pinkdrummergirl

it's sick!

31.12.2006 16:09

and that arsehole dared to say it's a milestone on the road to democracy in Iraq!
i can't believe it's happening! barbaric and sick, that's what i think about death penalty

disillusioned

Nonsense

31.12.2006 17:08

What is it with the fetishization of "legal processes" and "international law" by the anti-war left? It's all bullshit. Justice without law is still justice. All the faith placed in the international legal system and institutions smacks of a quasi-religious need to believe in some sort of global messianic "force of good". Justice would not have been any better served by an exhaustive trial, because Saddam was clearly known by the Iraqis to have ordered crimes against humanity. To even question this is simply an infantile knee-jerk reaction to the West's demonisation propaganda.

Saddam deserved to die; if you doubt the premise that he was guilty of crimes against humanity - crimes over and above what *any* normal legal subject could commit - IMO you are deluding yourself. The sooner he died the better. He became a martyr - so what? Alive he would arguably have been a greater focal point for resistance - and then some in the anti-war movement "support the Iraqi resistance" - is this why many don't want to see Saddam executed - because they're so frenzied with impotent rage against "Bush and Blair" that they would rather see war than peace?

Pacifists may say he should have been imprisoned. But why is his death more worthy of outcry than the hundreds of others who die every single day in Iraq?!!!

/rant over!!!

non-pacifist