Hanging Gardens

To call the Saddam trial a travesty of justice would be to imply that it bore a relationship to justice.  Margaret Beckett, as foreign secretary, should be denouncing the flawed legal process and, especially, the homicidal sentence, but instead she has welcomed it.   Saddam was one of the few people to have come out from the Iraq mess with his reputation at all enhanced, unlike his denouncers.  It turned out that he was more impressive than either Bush or Blair, who remain jointly responsible for far more deaths than this man whom they Bush now wants dead.  Long live President Saddam Hussein!  Long live everyone!

Comments

[symmetry]

Nice blog! The BBC's John Simpson said he'd never forget the subtle smile he thought played across Saddam's face as he left the courtroom. It was as if he had achieved everything he wanted to. Maybe there's a different reason. Maybe he knows he won't be killed. I think there is still plenty more to be played out here. The timing of the sentence disgusted me. The trial was a blatant farce. Beckett is a joke. And on it goes...

[Grant Thoms]

You know I am not a supporter of capital punishment, in fact I called for Saddam Hussein's lifelong incarceration as a better reminder of generations to come about the folly of building a monstrous dictator (as the West did), only to have it turn against you. But I derive no joy at whooping up the idea that somehow Saddam is better than even Bliar and Bush. This is pointless. The Kurds, Sunnis and Shias who have died in their millions at the hands of Saddam, Bush and Bliar deserve better than this cheap comment.

[skills]

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[tim]

Pretty disgraceful post - "Long Live President Saddam Hussein!", what immoral idiotic toss. And "one of the few people to have come out from the Iraq mess with his reputation at all enhanced" - I guess that just depends on how highly you value the reputation of senile mass murderers.

[UK Daily Pundit]

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