He could also have simply been sent over to Kuwait to stand trial for what he did there. I don't think it really matters, frankly. His guilt is obvious.

I'm not so sure it will happen in the next couple of days, though. It was my understanding that they needed to complete the current trial beforehand. Maybe they decided not to bother, I wouldn't.

The confirmation of the death sentence handed down to Saddam Hussein is not a surprise. In a few days time Saddam would be killed and the Iraqis will have a new symbol to rally around. In fact Saddam will play a far greater role after death than he ever did in his lifetime

This is probably very true - he will become the martyr for the cause to be bandied about with myth building around him turning him into a hero that he never was.

This man deserves death as a punishment as do all his henchmen. The quicker they do it the better, however as with all death sentences there will probably the usual delays involved. He should just have been put up against a wall and shot at the time of capture. Not legal I know - but oh so just and cost free except for the one bullet.

Therefore hang Saddam so that the truth of these other crimes can forever be hidden.

Another conspiracy theory......

 

 

 

I'm not so sure it will happen in the next couple of days

It has already happened as I predicted in the blog. But more seriously, will the death of Saddam Hussein change anything on the ground. It will only make a martyr out of him.

Dunno why they rushed it, frankly. Wasn't he in the middle of another trial? I remember reading that he would complete that one before he was excecuted.

I always had a dim hope that he'd be sent to Kuwait to face his crimes there, as well.

I always had a dim hope that he'd be sent to Kuwait to face his crimes there, as well.

Let's face it - there's something a little farcical about the dictator of Kuwait sentencing Hussein to death for being a more aggressive dictator than he was. Better for everyone that people forget that Kuwait was returned to a dictatorship after Saddam was pushed out.

When the leader of Kuwait invades another nations and commits the kind of wholesale atrocities that Hussein kids committed on Kuwait I might see the equation. His evils bled out in the form of supporting Palestinian terrorism, invading other nations, threatening Israel with missile attacks, etc. It's great that Iraqis have a better hope of living without sanctions and putting something better together, but in the end few gave a damn until he started annexing other nations as Iraqi property.

Strangely enough, our customarily anti-war, anti-Bush rag this morning only mentioned the celebrations by Iraqis in response to his execution. None of the gloom/doom/He'll now be a martyr/Bahu silliness. He'll continue to be a martyr to the people who considered him a martyr or hero yesterday, but that's about it, and a pretty small crowd at that. No Che Guevarra style myth for him, I'm afraid.

He'll continue to be a martyr to the people who considered him a martyr or hero yesterday, but that's about it, and a pretty small crowd at that. No Che Guevarra style myth for him, I'm afraid.

Did not the myth of Charles I live on. The death of Saddam was choreographed so carefully and his words so well chosen, It was I whi built Iraq, that it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Saddam has joined the ranks of the other great hero of Iraq, who by the way was a Kurd, Saladin.

I take it you have gotten up before dawn and have already prayed to your hero, Saddam, then?

Bahu...your true colors are ever showing clearly in these statements....

Chuck who?

Saladin?

In Saddam's eternal wet dreams, maybe.

In fact even President George Bush has come out openly against the undignified manner in which Saddam Hussein was put to death. But then can a lynch mob be dignified.

Do you believe Hussein deserved a dignified death, Bahu? Do you think despots should be sheltered from their naysayers, even on the gallows?

Do you believe Hussein deserved a dignified death, Bahu? Do you think despots should be sheltered from their naysayers, even on the gallows?

Every human being deserves dignity in death. And that includes the likes of Pol ,Pot, Stalin, Mao and Saddam. I baulk at putting him in this list, but I think Saddam Hussein has become a favorite hate figure.

Had he been tried in accordance with International Law and not as lynch mob, he would have still recived a death sentence but then we can say that law took its course. That is not the case now when he was put to death in a hasty maNNER, TAUNTED AND RIDICULED EVEN AS HE climbed up the gallows.

I suppose it is a matter of opinion, but death is death, and whether you are treated like a hero in your last moments or spit upon results in the same end. You're dead. Given the death in question was considered a punishment for deeds done, I see no reason why "dignity" should even be a factor.

It's convenient for you that you agree with international law. It's much like rabid federalists in the US who use federal law, courts, etc., to trump state matters that are really none of their business. Saddam wasn't being tried by the world, he was in an Iraqi court, and international law means zilch.