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December 29, 2006
A Politically Correct Death
by Jack Lee
We're told the execution of Saddam Hussein could come at anytime and the talk shows are abuzz with the question," Should we watch it on TV?"
They real question today ought to be why we forced the Iraqi's to keep this mass murderer alive so long? Any reasonable, thinking person knows that Saddam Hussein should have never come out of his hole alive.
The wimps who ordered that he be taken alive ought to be excused from any further government service and let them open up a coffee house in Amsterdam or something. Their "desires" to provide Saddam Hussein with a US style trial has cost the lives of an untold number of Iraqi's and US personnel and for what good end? So Saddam Hussein and his Bathists supporters could organize and then do their worst during this long drawn out ordeal many of us laughingly called a trial? Or was it so he could have an international pulpit to make a mockery of the trial? It made us look weak compared to his defiance and it rallied on his terrorist pals!
We know there was at least a 5 people who were brutally murdered as a result of this trial. But, even if only one death was suffered for the sake of this dog and pony show it was one death too many.
The outcome of this trial was never in doubt, so who are we kidding? It was a staged production
by and for our politically correct crowd. If Patten were alive today he would be smacking them in the face and calling them cowards for what they've done. This is the same bunch of fools that have our service people fighting with so many rules and restraints we look weak and it's causing us to take too many casualties. Well, I am sick of the PC bunch and I am sick of their rules, restraints and appeasements that have cost us so many needless deaths. They have dragged out this war that could have ended two years ago, if only we were allowed to unleashed Hell to bring the bad guys to their knees...but, no, instead we have been forced to allow this situation to digress into a civil war where many more tens of thousands may die.
The smart thing, the expedient thing, the merciful and just thing would have been to shoot Saddam Hussein when and where we found him. That would have put an end to the hopes of his Bathists thugs and his Sunni pimps that sought his return to power!
Please spare me your misplaced platitudes about due process. Go tell that to the families of the people who were slaughtered just to give this mass murderer an American style trial.
We had every justification known to man and God to take this killer out when we first found him and we would have been so much better off if we did. Remember Nikolai Chauchesku, the former Soviet dictator of Romania was shot at the moment of his capture...that sent a great message to those other that might have otherwise followed in his shoes.
This is one of the realities of how you fight and win a war.
Posted by Post Scripts at December 29, 2006 11:15 AM
Comments
I can think of only two possible reasons for keeping the man alive:
1. The possibility that he might have useful information
2. Credence and worldwide acceptance for the newly established Iraqi government and law, which is another important factor in winning the war.
I can certainly understand the soldiers point of view that you so rightly express. This is a war that must be fought on many fronts, some of them made rediculous because of political correctness, and it would seem it's important that we win on all of them.
In any case the man is now dead:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court, an Iraqi official told NBC News.
Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were also hanged in connection with the Dujail killings, Iraqiya reported.
Posted by: Tina at December 29, 2006 09:31 PM
I actually considered these good points too and I weighed them against the other good that would have come from his more immediate passing.
I dunno, maybe I am wrong, but I don't think that trial did much to establish Iraqi government credibility.
That poor government with all its in-fighting has a long, long way to go to gain credibility. Although one could argue Saddam's trial is one small step for democracy. Still it remains that Iraq's government has our leaders terribly frustrated. It's been like herding cats across the great divide. And for most of the left leaning world, they are merely considered a pupet government of the USA...I don't think so, but that is the perception.
Thats why I say sometimes it's just better to shoot em ala Chauchesku and be done with it. Then we're free to devote our resources where it will do more good.
Posted by: Jack Lee at December 30, 2006 05:09 PM
You're right about the cats, Jack and what an image!!! As for the left-leaning world......it's like herding cats across the great divide! I give the Iraqi's a better chance of getting it together, and in a much shorter time frame too.
Posted by: Tina at December 30, 2006 11:20 PM