I am deeply offended that we are expected to be that stupid. From the moment he was captured to the moment he died, everything felt like a tasteless show. His trial was anything but fair, more like a horrible Egyptian movie in which a “man” is being prosecuted by his worst enemies, and you can clearly see why they are the worst. I could swear the judge wished to chew Saddam’s meat while alive, he was a lunatic who made no effort to at least appear to be unbiased and professional. Watching those trials was as depressing as depressing could be, not because I felt sorry for Saddam, but because it was like watching a play that I knew will end in something more real and very very ugly.
Saddam was executed at the dawn of the first day of Al-Adha Eid. For those who don’t know, Al-Adha is a holy day for Muslims, in which we offer our best sacrifice in the form of sheep or lambs, their meat is then distributed on the poors and needy. To execute an Arab leader, a president and a symbol of Arabism on such a day, is a great offense to Muslims and Arabs. It’s a sick joke and the fact that it was done this way so that most of Arabs and Muslims will be home watching is even sicker.
Bush said in a statement about the execution “an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on terror.” Palestinian territories is a democracy, and this is specifically why Palestinians are being punished. Hamas was the first elected Arab government and probably the last. Maybe democracy translates to traitors and puppets in Bush’s dictionary. As for “sustain and defend itself”, all I see is tens of innocent Iraqis dying everyday and that certainly did not happen when Iraq had a leader, as bad as he was. But sure Iraq, the land and the resources will help the U.S in it’s holy war on terror. So I want to say fuck you and your oh so selfless plan for a new ME.
Saddam died but none of those he killed returned, and they never will. I think it’s time to look at the big picture. Today only 60 Iraqis were killed in a car bombing!
I tried to make this post as objective as possible, but if you ask me, it’s a messed up world we live in I don’t know we do we even bother to wake up.
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Human Rights Watch report on the trial: Dujaili Trial Fundamentally Flawed
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A show trial and a show execution
100%correct, that’s exactly what i think.
regardless of the mistakes he did or the number of ppl he killed, his execution was another step into the wrong way and a damn insult to the whole muslim world…anyway,who needs 2 be 3arabee anymore??
am sooo sorry for what happened
I agree with you.
However, yes Bush etc. are /a/ cause for the violence there, but they don’t send out the suicide bombers and death squads.
More attention should be paid to the physical killers, of which I suspect the American soldiers are a decreasing proportion.
The only sad thing about saddam’s death is that he was janged by an American process under occupation and not by a brave Iraqi citizen. You say the trial was not fair. Well, Saddam NEVER gave any trials for his opponents. One word, one order was enough for killing. In 1979 during a speech in the so called parliament he mentioned the names of 19 leaders in ba’ath party who said were conspiring against him and they were all escorted out of the hall and shot dead. At least he was given the trial to speak and still lie by showing support to democracy he never practised as a leader.
He is in the mercy of God now, but I have no sadness whatsoever about him.
Batir is right, that bastard’s death on eid, was like “3edeyyeh”
Batir, he wasn’t tried for all his crimes, and that is just absurd! by sending him to the gallows so quickly not only was he deprived the right of defending himself but his supposedly other victims were deprived the right of being heard and the right of knowing who was really behind the war on Iran and the invasion of Kuwait. By killing him they are hoping to bury everything with him. Half-truths can never lead to absolute justice.
But let me ask you this, don’t you think if Saddam deserved what he got then probably more than half of the Arab leaders deserve the same fate? I think that politics is dirty by nature and I doubt that any of the world’s current leaders is not responsible directly or indirectly for the death of at least one person (of course you’d wish it was only one man). Does that mean Saddam does not deserve to die because they are all murderers in some way or another? I don’t know, all I’m saying is that he deserved to be tried as a leader, in an international court, where things are taken seriously and not ridiculously as if it was a 9a3eedi movie. He was tried while the country is still under occupation for God’s sake! I can’t believe this has actually happened in the 21 century, it’s very shameful.
Moey, I’m sorry for what you’ve been through, but I think that you’re overwhelmed by your emotions that all you could see was a murderer being executed. I wish it was that simple.
Shaden, thanks for the important comment.
My assessment of this whole charade is that a gang has executed a murderer. I have heared the executors chanting the name of Muqtada sadr while hanging Saddam. It is just another gang taking the place of the Ba’ath party.
I am with you that the secrets of the Saddam era were buried with him, however the man had every chance in the world to talk during the hearings. He only gace slogans in the court and never gave facts. I was waiting for him to reveal secrets but maybe he was told a deal with the Americans can spare him execution, and discovered their lies only at later stage.
And for God sake do not compare Saddam with other leaders. They are all rotten I know but none of them was so ruthless and psychopath in his “leadership” as you want him to be trated..a leader.
A leader who has caused the death of millions of Iraqis in useless wars and destroyed generations and resources that could have built a great country. Ya..what kind of “leader” was he!