"When he was captured in November of 2003, the insurgency against American troops increased in ferocity. After his death, it will redouble in intensity again. Freed from the remotest possibility of Saddam's return by his execution, the West's enemies in Iraq have no reason to fear the return of his Baathist regime. Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair."
According to White House spokesman Scott Stanzel, the former Iraqi president's trial, conviction and execution showed that the Iraqi people had replaced the rule of the tyrant with the rule of law.
The trouble with that is the rule of law in Iraq is meaningless. About 300 people a day are dying in sectarian violence, and according to some estimates, 600,000 people have died, most of them killed by insurgents, militias and death squads, since the US-led invasion in March 2003. What does the rule of law mean in a lawless, ungoverned society?
If Saddam's execution offers the Maliki Government some small hope of shoring up its crumbling support among its Shiite constituency and its Kurdish partners, his death will do little for George Bush's standing with the American people.
Osama was an enemy of Saddam. Saddam was a secular dictator who eschewed Sharia. He was a minority Sunni blocking the majority Shia.
Saddam's death solidifies the vaccuum in leadership in Iraq. It sends a message to other Dictators, Kings, Emirs, Sheiks, whatever you want to call the billionaire thugs who rule without democracy in the desert-- a message that when you stop dancing the puppet game for the USA and the west, you may not be able to keep on doing your own dance. You die. This, at the same time, sends a message to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and others, that they can sucker the US, Neocons and other imperialists suffering from hubris into helping them take down their enemies.
This execution will not help the US one iota. It will hurt the US. It will make it clear that doing business with the US can be deadly. It will show that working with the US as an ally can be more dangerous that doing without the US, when fighting an enemy.
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This is TOTALLY IN CHARACTER FOR BUSH. He has a proclivity for hurting the U.S. ... Seems as though everything he touches turns to shit, wouldn't you say? ... I'm sure he'll never go for it, but the BEST ADVICE ANYBODY COULD GIVE HIM IS to go back to TEXAS, AND TAKE A TWO-YEAR VACATION ... NOT DO ANYTHING, NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS, NOT PROMOTE ANY LEGISLATION.
Geesh, but it sure does harken back to some fable or other. Trying to recall which one.
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Vince Williams (26 articles, 0 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 31 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 10:32:35 AM
His golden touch made everything dead and useless. COuld just as well have been shit. And that even goes for what he's supposedly done for the Evangelidiotical right wing extremists who are his most reliable base
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Rob Kall (808 articles, 3921 quicklinks, 332 diaries, 1702 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 10:45:52 AM
Great effort was made to make sure the world didn't believe the US was behind this execution. If we believe the White House, Bush was asleep at 8 p.m., Texas time, when Saddam was executed. The reality is that the YS was behind all of it--it set up a puppet regime, it let the Iraqi court know what the US wishes were, it pulled the strings, much like Russia did to Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Saddam probably deserved to die, but the trial was a judicial farce, a kangaroo court, and his death, as Rob Kall says, benefits the terrorists far more than anyone else.
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Brasch (63 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 48 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 10:52:23 AM
I hope that Bush is happy. His insistence on death was a critical mistake. This was not Nurenburg. His death means another charge against this administration. Hussain had probably done more damage to Al Quaeda than Bush. Kill one, another takes his place. I'm glad I'm not a G.I. in Iraq right now.
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Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 1:31:39 PM
Besides... that wasn't even The REAL SADDAM™ - but one of his look-alike decoys.*
The real Saddam is probably in The Cheney Bunker™ -- doing bong hits with Dick and laughing their axis off!
*If you review some of the available images of S.H. back to the days when he was in power in Iraq, you will come to see that the fellow they pulled from that little hole and put on trial was one of the imposters. ( Pay close attention to the teeth. Crooked or straight? Both? How can that be?) This guy was a very crazy cat to be sure -- who must have thought he was going to be rescued at the last minute or something -- but NOT the real guy!
Sorry... Suckers!
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mrk * (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 295 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 5:23:27 PM
MRK, so truly your saying Bush and Chenney after a hard day of trying Cocaine once in a room you can cut the smoke with a knife are just playing games. Kind of like the one game at Chuck and Cheese were the mighty tyrant pokes his head out of a hole. Well our staggering President and VP try to hit the head with a mallet. The winner gets a date with Hillary Clinton, dressed in fashionable leather and stiletto heels, with a bonus surprise for top level in the game, she comes with a whip. Well Bin Laden directs video tapes of there wild escapade.
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Fred F (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 361 comments)
on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 6:05:13 PM
Saddam's hanging is NOW being seen as REVENGE, instead of JUSTICE... cell-phone pics on internet show taunts coming from someone viewing his hanging ... etc. THERE'S A STORY HERE!!!
The mainstream (Bush-controlled) media tried to depict the hanging as one of JUSTICE with all the participants RESPECTFULLY doing their duties.
THAT AIN'T THE WAY IT WAS!!!!
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Vince Williams (26 articles, 0 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 31 comments)
on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 6:50:47 AM
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