On Saddam: What The Fuck Are You Cheering For?
The leader never carries out the killing himself but will always get his hands dirty. So how will the execution of Saddam be seen 200 years from now?
A quarter of a million American troops invade Iraq. Hunt down its leader and set up a tribunal with all the trappings of ‘fairness’ and he is in the end found guilty for being involved in the killing of 148 Shias over two decades ago during a time when America was openly heavily funding Saddam and silent over all these killings.
Americans hand over Saddam to Iraqis to carry out the hanging. On Eid Al-Adha no less; a good PR move to make sure every Arab is at home watching on TV.
In the last 3 years the presence of a quarter million of American forces on Iraqi soil have been responsible for killing an estimated quarter of a million Iraqis.
American forces are still occupying Iraq.
What will a student of history ask himself 200 years from now? Or will history still be written by the victors at that time?
Will they ask about why so many Arabs remained silent? Will they ask whether it made sense that one leader be executed for killing 148 people while another be praised for killing a quarter of a million of those same people? Will they see ancient footage of Colin Powell at the UN displaying doctored satellite photos of now unfound WMDs? Will they understand that 200 years ago, suggesting that a leader from a ’superior’ nation be held to the same standard of accountability as everyone else in the world was unheard of? That suggesting an American is equal to an Arab is equal to a Brit is equal to an African is preposterous? Will they understand that someone like me who had no love for Saddam thought the whole situation to be preposterous?
Bush was right today: ‘a dark and painful era is over in Iraq’, but a new one, that he as a leader is directly responsible for, has already begun.
And the charade goes on and on and on… more Iraqis are being slaughtered…
So to anyone celebrating the execution of Saddam I’m forced to ask: what the fuck are you cheering for?
If you’re cheering the execution of Saddam Hussein, you damn well better be doing everything you can to voice your opinion that this war is illegal and that this administration needs to be held accountable.
Otherwise, you’re nothing but a hypocrite.
Tags: accountability, America, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Iraq, New World Order, Saddam Hussein, UN, video, WMD.
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do you ever get tired of hating yourself and being negative? How would you feel if your family was let out in the middle of the night and shot, or your were killed for having a blog that a certain individual didnt agree with. Hell just got a little bit fuller, and thank the lord the United States has freed millions and countless future millions from living under someone like that.
thanks for your opinion, hypocrite.
Scan,
Thanks for a very insightful observation of the Saddam affair.
There is something so sick about watching a human being led in chains hardly able to walk, hands tied behind his back by men so afraid or ashamed to show their faces they must wear hooded masks. NO MATTER WHAT THAT PERSON HAS DONE. Our governments won’t even show the execution because it’s so vulgar. They know if seen, many people would find it disgusting and change there opinion about this type of murder.
Those that cheer over the murder of ANYONE helps make this world unstable and headed in the wrong direction.
Oh, by the way the “Lord and Hell” should be kept out of it. More people have been murdered or enslaved over those issues than any other.
i know its a slightly over used topic but ill fly with it anyway !! i know saddam wwas a corrupt and horrible leader and im glad hes gone but not in the way he went !! america had absolutly had no right to go in there and in my opinion should be under un sanctions for its actions, lets all just stop trading with america and mabey they’ll get the idea that nobody else likes to play with bullies. and why saddam anyway ?? why not north lorea ?? or all those corrupt dictators in africa ??? we all know that america isnt going to go anyway near them because there is no oil there !! and could yuo all please stop picking on islam !! i know some of ‘em are loonies but most of ‘em ar not. the usa is cunnently trying to stop iran from getting nukes while it is letting isreal away with loads of them 1!! whats the story there ????
Mr. O’Farrell
Ireland
What should we have done with Saddam? I don’t see any bright ideas. All i see is whining. Did you guys know he killed thousands of his own people? Does he not deserve death? maybe we should have let him go and kill even thousands more. You wish death on our president but not saddam? This has to all be a joke.