Free For All - The Free Liberal Blog: The Secretive Execution of Saddam Hussein

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We wait in anticipation of the demise of our Great Enemy. The new Iraqi government is set to execute Saddam Hussein, dictator and villain, for his crimes against the people of Iraq. To the US Government, it appears as a victory. Finally, the man we have hated and our government has pursued since the first Gulf War, will pay for defying the US and doing unspeakable things to innocent people. It vindicates our war -- we have removed a threat in the Middle East and brought democracy to an oppressed people.

But, have we done good?

Have we furthered justice? Have we brought peace?

This execution suggests not. We don’t know when he will be executed. Whether it is for security reasons (to protect those who will carry it out), or for strategic reasons (to confuse those who would take action in protest of the execution), or for bureaucratic reasons (because executing people is not handled in a precise and scheduled manner by the government), it does not speak well for the Iraqi government’s transparency and credibility as an institution committed to honesty and justice.

Justice is certainly a fuzzy term. But, if one uses a certain definition, one cannot criticize and compare if the definition changes between cases. So, we must fix one as “our” definition of justice. Saddam had secret trials and secret executions. His raison d’etre was unknown. But, so are the methods and practices of the current Iraqi government, at least to us. We do not know that it is more just than the previous administration.

On the second count, we cannot say that Iraq is more peaceful. Certainly, the killing is no longer limited to the depraved actions of the state. But now, death squads and suicide bombers share in the terror. What is the net casualty rate?

Saddam’s execution should not hang among our laurels, but remind us of how much our government has failed in this disastrous folly.

-- KDR

Comments

Ever wonder why Saddam and Timothy McVeigh were executed so swiftly?

Could it have a little something to do with the coverup on the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Our government KNOWS FOR A FACT, that Saddam and Iraqi Intelligence along with their Al Queda allies were behind OKC. Yet, they refuse to put Clinton on trial for the cover-up.

Read the Jayna Davis Book!!!

Eric Dondero
www.libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com

Posted by: ericdondero | January 1, 2007 10:35 AM