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2006-11-06 Britain
Bush and Blair have forfeited the moral authority to hang Saddam
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Posted by Steve White 2006-11-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Hastings was a fine military historian and correspondant at one time. His book on the Falklands War is a classic. Too bad he has gone over to the dark side.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-06 00:29||   2006-11-06 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Surreal, utterly surreal. If this is what passes for moral reasoning in Europe, they are all doomed. Islam will eat their lunch for breakfast.

The biggest American mistake was to capture Saddam in the first place.

Leting him continue to run amok wreaking havok, death and mayhem would have been so much more appealing to this asshole's sensibilities.

It is dismaying to be obliged to acknowledge that Americans, British, Ba'athists, militiamen, national government representatives and insurgent suicide bombers in Iraq are all today perceived as coexisting on the same moral plane.

Only in your delusory morally relative world are terrorists and liberators on an equivalent plane.

Yet so incompetent has been the fulfilment of their policies on the ground that the leaders of Britain and the US now possess no more credible mandate than that of Iraq's local mass murderers.

Again, only in the world of people who are not on speaking terms with the truth.

His execution will appear to be merely another dirty deed in the endless succession that have taken place in Iraq since 2003, backed by our bayonets.

Therefore, there is nothing at all noble about liberating people from the rule of a murderous, genocidal tyrant. Executing that tyrant is a crime equal to any of his own. How is it possible for this moron to spew this sort of sewage without gagging himself?

Only some Iraqi Sunnis will mourn Saddam, a monster of the 20th century as deserving of death as were the Nazis hanged at Nuremberg. But his execution will be widely perceived as devoid of legitimacy.

Only for those who believe that Iraq would be better off still being ground beneath a Baathist boot heel.

Great inline commentary, Steve. Just reading this drivel elevated my blood pressure. With "great thinkers" like this at the helm, Europe might as well surrender to Islam right now. This wanker is able to sacrifice any good or moral thing on the altar of his hatred for America's success.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-11-06 00:37||   2006-11-06 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Bush and Blair are not hanging Saddam. Iraq will.
Posted by 3dc 2006-11-06 01:21||   2006-11-06 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Was listening to FOX's special documentary on the threat from Radical Islam - three points I found interesting [as a matter of program dialogue] were (1) the Radics/Spetzlamists make clear their hatred for JEWS, CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, + PAGANS, BUT NOT BUDDHISTS; (2) THEY PROCLAIM TO HATE
ALL THINGS WESTERN, + DON'T CARE TOO MUCH ABOUT
SSSSSHHHHHHHHH BLACK AFRICA, BUT DON'T HATE ASIA; and (3) as per their desired Global Muslim/
Islamist State, iff America is not per se destroyed IT IS TO BECOME A WEAK PROXY STATE UNDER ISLAMIC OR ISLAMIST DOMINATION. MY POINT IS > what makes BUDDHISM + ASIA NOT WORTHY OF BEING TARGETED BY RADICAL ISLAM???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-06 02:10||   2006-11-06 02:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Joe, to get serious for a second, try tracking down an essay on "Zen and the Art of Divebombing" on the internet.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-06 02:19||   2006-11-06 02:19|| Front Page Top

#6 George Bush's handling of this issue restores one's respect for Pontius Pilate

Yes, because Jesus and Saddam had so much in common.
Posted by anon 2006-11-06 05:58||   2006-11-06 05:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush and Blair have no authority to hang Saddam. That's the WHOLE point. It's Iraqis that have decided to hang their tyrant.
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-11-06 07:19||   2006-11-06 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Max, I see your lips moving and hear noises, but I just can't understand what you're saying.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-11-06 07:55||   2006-11-06 07:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Direct citation from Gromwife: "one grenade, rolled into his hole".
Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-06 08:34||   2006-11-06 08:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Make that TWO grenades, or perhaps three.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-06 08:38||   2006-11-06 08:38|| Front Page Top

#11 AC,
I was thinking the same thing - his book on the Falklands campaign is IMHO the gold standard on the subject. It is a shame that he's completely lost it like this.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-06 08:58||   2006-11-06 08:58|| Front Page Top

#12 "Among the allied leaders, only Stalin wanted Hitler alive, for the pleasure of hanging him. Everybody else was appalled by the prospective perils and complexities of trying and executing a head of state in partnership with the Russians. Hitler's suicide came as a relief."

Actually, both the Americans and the Soviets were in favour of trials for the Nazi leadership. Churchill was in favour of the lot of them being shot on sight. And quite right too.
Posted by Flea 2006-11-06 09:54||   2006-11-06 09:54|| Front Page Top

#13 That was becuase Churchill was a conservative stteped in history unlike the revolutionary Americans and Soviets who had the answer to all mankind's problems.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-06 10:12||   2006-11-06 10:12|| Front Page Top

#14 "Almost everyone involved in the Nuremberg trials of his subordinates felt uncomfortably conscious that they were administering victors' justice."
I doubt that. Some of those tried were acquitted, some got 10 years, some got 20 years, and some got death. They were treated much fairer than their tens of millions of victims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials
Posted by Darrell 2006-11-06 14:04||   2006-11-06 14:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Too bad the grunt who bagged him didn't toss a grenade down the hole.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-11-06 15:17||   2006-11-06 15:17|| Front Page Top

#16 We could argue this, if Bush and Blair were hanging Sad-Ass.

Fortunately, the Iraqis intend to hang his sorry ass. And his sorry neck, too.

Still want to discuss "moral authority," Maxie?

Idjit.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-11-06 15:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-11-06 15:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Closure demands that Saddam be lowered feet first into a wood chipper on live Iraqi TV.
Posted by RWV 2006-11-06 15:47||   2006-11-06 15:47|| Front Page Top

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