says the headline of today’s online Newsweek article. You know, it may be useful for Iraqis and especially Baathists to hear things like that, but it doesn’t do anything for me. It’s enough for me that he’s been permanently removed from the political landscape so that the Iraqi people can close that chapter of their history.
And if I was walking to my execution, I’m pretty confident that any reporters would see fear on my face. And in my knees. And in the way I was shaking and vomiting. I think anything short of a hysterical breakdown is admirable.
Saddam never showed the least bit of remorse for any of his actions, and was a political force even during his trial. For those reasons I don’t regret his execution. But I feel no need to revel in it.
Nor to mock the dead.
December 30, 2006 at 2:35 pm
To view a cynical and satirical visual of George Bush playing a round of “Hangman”…link here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
December 30, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Not my cuppa.
December 30, 2006 at 3:54 pm
I doubt it’s true, anyway. I don’t see much evidence Saddam was cowardly. Many dispicable things, but not a coward. Of course, I doubt he felt an ounce of remorse, either. Not really a “feelings” kind of a guy.
December 30, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Well said, Geoff. I share your views on this.
December 31, 2006 at 8:22 am
I agree. This is something that needed to happen, something unpleasant but necessary and just. But we really should not revel. If anything, we must grieve for the thousands he negatively affected (to put it mildly), dead and alive.