Woo hoo!

Quite good, they the executino should have been done immediately, by a tribunal composed of SCIRI, Dawa, KDP, and PUK members.

Oh well. Atleast he’ll be dead in a month (supposedly).

It seems likely that this will propel a spasm of violence from his tribe and his fellow sectarian Arabs. That violence will feed into the continuing cycle of sectarian violence.

Surely, some Sunni’s will use this as an excuse for increased violence, but I doubt that even the most anti-Shi’ite Sunni Nationalists (let alone the AQs) consider the return of Saddam to power as probable or desirable.

Certainly no reason to post-pone justice. Perhaps they can give him an unmarked grave in the desert like so many of his victims.

It will be a useful lesson – for dictators everywhere.

My guess is that more people will be pleased than appalled… but it will be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. And with luck it will stall the ongoing trial about the mustard gas attacks – thereby avoiding some embarrassment about who knew what, when”¦ and who provided the raw materials… That should all be pursued quietly, perhaps by a James Bond analogue… (Casino Royale is an excellent movie; I wish it was true…)

The sooner the better.

“It will be a useful lesson ““ for dictators everywhere.”

Don’t buy WMDs from the US?

:P

According to CNN, an Iraqi judge has promised “either today or tomorrow” as a day for Hussiens execution.

Done. One murder less.

When will there be a trial to judge the biggest criminal on earth?
GW Bush and Tony the liar should both be sentenced to death by hanging for crime against humanity.

“An example; the best form of a lesson.”

Don’t buy WMD’s from the US?

The dollar floats because it is backed by military firepower

I knew it wouldn’t take long for the Bush bashing / America Bashing / and in general bashing of the entire western civilization. While the US is far from perfect, and a lot goes on behind the scenes and all is not what it seems, at least we know and pursue basic human rights and dignity, and we’re not only the first, but usually the only country to roll up our sleeves when the going gets tough and it gets ugly. Saddam Hussein is a product of his own culture and part of the world where tyranny, oppression, barbarism, brutality, and torture are the norm. I mean really, what do you expect from a part of the world where women can’t even show their faces, vote, drive cars, and voice their opinions. A part of the world where preschool children are taught to hate the west, and a religion whose book teaches intolerance of other religions.

Iraqi women gained the right to vote and run for office in 1980, shortly after Saddam made himself president, so GW deserves no credit for women’s suffrage. Saddam was a secularist, and Iraq was progressive compared to its neighbors. The combined anarchy and Shiite Islamic influence have confined once-independent women behind veils and inside their homes.

Notice that I used the expression “Saddam made himself president.” I was simply correcting a factual error that women in pre-occupation Iraq did not have the right to vote.

Dan,

Your missing my point. Matt stated under the post-war occupation, women gained the right to vote. That is not correct. It is correct to say that the recent elections were first contested elections in Iraqi history. Gender is irrelevant. During Saddam’s rule, neither men nor women enjoyed real suffrage.

During Saddam’s rule, neither men nor women enjoyed real suffrage.

I agree. Thus, to avoid dishonesty, don’t pretend otherwise.

Matt’s correct, as it was after the war that women gained the right to vote. For that matter, men gained the right to vote at the same time. The Iraq War transformed Iraq from an absolutist dictatorship (without elections) to an illiberal democracy (with elections).

Don’t seek an asinine cover for appearing clever. It doesn’t become you. I hope.

When I read the reaction on my message, I strongly suggest yhat more americans should travel and visit other countries. It looks to me that the bad influence of the evangelists is terrible and are making people blind to the reality of the world.
The whole world (with some very few exceptions) is condemning USA for the unacceptable agression on Iraq, even the so loved GW Bush is recognizing that his war is a total failure, GI will have to leave Iraq in the same way they done it in Vietnam, is that not a shame?
3000 GI killed, more than 100000 innocent citizen killed, torture by american service men, assasination of civilians by GI etc etc etc.
This is a shame for this big nation and GW, Rumsfeld and others will have to account for that

OK, I do not beleive that there is any god existing, but that is not the problem.
The war USA made to Iraq is a shame, there was NO reason at all except that Iraq has some oil and that the GW and Vice President are very interested in that.
USA is NOT the envoy of god on earth and should better use its energy to help the poor people in its own country.
So I strongly support the “US go home”.
Now again travel a bit outside USA to be able to state that nobody anymore support US policy.

Where do you think iraqui oil is going????
To the wellfare of the iraqui people???????
How is it possible that a well educated nationis beleiving all tese stupidities tols by CNN and other FOX news…
Why is it that the whole world is now considering USA as very dangerous for peace in the world?
Is it religion that is making US citizens so childish???? To beleive everything what GW is saying, if that is the case, then we are turning back from civilization. A good prouve of that is the succes of creationism in the US

Alex, I don’t know what sources are feeding you this bizarre idea that the US has become some sort of Christo-fascist state. Such reports are very much exaggerated.
As for the “America being dangerous for peace,” you can breath a sigh of relief as I don’t expect you’ll be seeing any bible wielding US marines on your doorstep anytime soon.
As for President Bush, his time at the helm is down to less than two years. Contrary to the idea of some, he is not an oligarch and will be stepping aside for another elected leader in 2008.

Sonagi,
To make a long opinion short, I believe the Iraq invasion was a long term goal that was destroyed by strategic failures and simple incompetence. I think the intent was to overthrow a dictator (whom the majority of his populace hated) and effectively westernize Iraq. Iraq could then serve as a powerful prowestern presence and strategic military point for possible deployment. I think the Bush admin. imagined terrorism as the next cold war and thought that cold war tactics could be applied. I do not think a Bush Cabal awoke one morning and launched a massive campaign to steal Iraqi oil and make Haliburton richer. While these make exciting talking points for Air America and the Democratic underground they’re a bit to simplistic to make much sense to me. Certainly oil was a considered factor and the US and it’s allies stood to gain some attractive oil deals with the new government. But to assail the war as something so simple as “Blood for Oil” is tiresome and shortsighted IMO.

Interview with Said Aburish

If you have an iron stomach, you should read the drivel over on the Al-Jazeera message boards.

Sorry about the links, the formatting of the first two created the error.

Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.iraqiwomen22dec22,1,2115829.story?ctrack=1&cset=true …

Paul O’Neill: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml …