Saddam execution at 10PM Eastern?
The AP is reporting that this will take place tonight, but for some reason, I found this section of the article more interesting.
Also, the hanging will be in the Green Zone. Not surprising, but how does this "Iraqi justice" look to the Iraqis and the Muslim world?
He's handed over to the Iraqis practically at the gallows, an Iraqi pulls the lever, then his body is immediately retaken by the Americans, all inside the US fortified Green Zone.
Al-Nueimi said U.S. authorities were maintaining physical custody of Saddam to prevent him from being humiliated before his execution. He said the Americans also want to prevent the mutilation of his corpse, as has happened to other deposed Iraqi leaders.
"The Americans want him to be hanged respectfully," al-Nueimi said. If Saddam is humiliated publicly or his corpse ill-treated "that could cause an uprising and the Americans would be blamed," he said.
Also, the hanging will be in the Green Zone. Not surprising, but how does this "Iraqi justice" look to the Iraqis and the Muslim world?
He's handed over to the Iraqis practically at the gallows, an Iraqi pulls the lever, then his body is immediately retaken by the Americans, all inside the US fortified Green Zone.
posted by mikevotes at
5:19 PM
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Iraqi's have moved on from Saddam. I think the American politicians are more obsessed with Saddam at this point -- maybe because they have a guilty conscience themselves as accessories before and after the fact.
The sooner you stop the tongue for wagging, the sooner you stop the telling of tales.
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-epm, at 10:57 PM
The Americans are obsessed with Saddam because he represents the remaining "justification" for the war.
Also, remember the effort to villainize him prewar. The residual of all that effort still lingers in the American consciousness.
But again, the bottom line is, it doesn't matter.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:14 AM
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