Saturday, 30. December 2006
Hussein hanged
The New York Times report that Saddam Hussein was hanged just before dawn (3 am GMT) during the morning call to prayer on Saturday, Baghdad time. The execution happened before the appeal that Hussein made was decided on and just before the Muslim celebration of Eid, which might have postponed the execution, start. His half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Iraqi chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar are also reported to have been executed, BBC say. All three were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.
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tathagata,
Saturday, 30. December 2006, 02:17
what next?
good that someone who killed 148 people is finally hanged, now what about someone who killed 100,000 people? who decides his fate? http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.deaths/
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antanas,
Sunday, 31. December 2006, 09:20
148?
I really doubt that Saddam killed ONLY 148 people. And Bush, although I'm certainly not supporting his foreign policy, did not order to slaughter people directly. Yes, going to war was a bloody adventure, but lots of leaders have done exactly the same in the past, and will do it in the nearest future. Truman ordered to drop A-bombs on Japan cities - oh, that was exactly a war crime, from my point of view! Bush, on the other hand, is a morron who just doesn't know how to handle the processes he initiated; however, he doesn't use nukes or chemical weapons. I still believe there can be instances of a JUST war. Unfortunately, war in Iraq started to look not exactly the case...it would be, if Iraq could somehow become democratic country... fairy tale?
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rein,
Wednesday, 3. January 2007, 05:44
not a just war, just another war
well, hanging someone (guilty or not) before the legal process of deciding his appeal is over is certainly not a sign of democracy ascending. however, i'd rather not see bush hanged, but judged by the Hague court, together with all the other Milosevices and bin Ladens of our time, in a part of the world where capital punishment does not exist.
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