Postby Kamal35 » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:41 am
Mad Mac: I'm more in the opinion of the Russian Government:
"Russian Foreign Ministry
Russia said it regretted the execution and expressed concerns that his death could trigger a new spiral of violence in Iraq. "Regrettably, repeated calls by representatives of various nations and international organizations to the Iraqi authorities to refrain from capital punishment were not heard," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement. "Saddam Hussein's execution can lead to further aggravation of the military and political situation and the growth of ethnic and confessional tensions."
I would have preferred that Saddam were jailed for the rest of his life and avoid death penalty. With Bush saying that the death of Saddam (by death penalty) democracy is gonna be raised in Iraq, you have an oxymoron here, at least, in the European concept: death penalty is completly opposed to the concept of democracy (human rights, equal rights, the possibility of reinstertion in a society, etc). Killing someone is, in modern times, a failure of democracy.
About Goering (he comitted suicide before being hanged) and other nazis, I also would have preferred them to be sentenced to life-in-prison. Some days ago I found a web page telling the last minutes of all those nazis before being hanged and it was humanistically cruel and brutal. For me, democracy is that law in which, although someone is cruel and brutal, you're superior to him being tied to the law and justice. If you behave in the way he behaves, well, democracy then is nothing. If a democracy behaves against the nazis as the nazis behaved against the jews, what makes democracy to be better than nazism? I don't know if you get my point.
In other hand, having Saddam as a prisoner was better than having him as a dead man or a martyr. You never know what's gonna happen. What about if, suddenly, all the parties in Iraq (that's just a impossible theory, but a theory) said that the would sign a peace-treat which would allow to USA troops to leave the country in peace with the condition that Saddam should be executed/released?
I think Bush has sent to trash one of his most precious chess pieces.
Once said this, I think Saddam was a cruel dictator. But hey, USA is dealing with cruel dictators (Saddam included in the past, with the famous picture shaking hands with Rumsfeld and Reagan's Administration) today, and nobody protests: Teodoro Obiang, in Ecquatorial Guinea, the Saudi regime, etc.
That's why I say that killing Saddam was a bad move. We now have another martyr in the ranking of fanatics.
