Goodbye, Saddam!
Saturday, January 30th, 2006 the United States turns over Saddam Hussain to the Shiates of Iraq for execution. For the proponents of the Iraqi war, it was a step forward and validation that the Iraqi people will one day live in peace and democracy without the ruthless dictator that divided his people and sought to practice genocide on the Kurdistan people and the Shiates. Hussain was evil in many ways, if killing your own population is evil. If evil means living in the lap of luxury while your subjects live in abject poverty or maybe developing chemical warfare and dreaming of weapons of mass destruction makes this dictator dangerous and evil.
This morning's news is full of positive spin on the exection. He was handed over to his "people", he was killed by the Iraqi "government". He had a "fair trial" and was handed the death sentence as a result of that trial. We are comforted by the idea that Hussain's execution will not increase or decrease the violence in Baghdad, according to the talking heads on my TV. Then why do I have a problem accepting this news as good news?
It is not the cause of the United States to meddle in the affairs of other countries. It should never have been the intent to out and out assasinate Saddam Hussain as a goal of the invasion of Iraq. Iraq should have been a ward of the United Nations from the start. Putting Iraq up to world deliberation would have kept the Muslim world from judging the outcome of Iraq from sliding into our lap. Except for England and the United States, the "hero" status of the US for invading Iraq will come into more objective scutiniy. Executing Hussain is bound to bring even more criticism, no matter how many times we reiterate that we , "turned Saddam Hussain over to Iraqi officials."
This morning, I wonder if I am the only US citizen who feels uncomfortable with this execution. Somehow, what happened seems to have the echo of evil inherent to the act, as well! The exections has an overbearing sense of orchestration to it, with the US as the conductor.
With this thought, comes the foreboding of what will become of the civil war developing in Iraq? What will the Muslim community think of this? Even though we have slain a ruthless dictator, did we have to kill him? Did we really? I can't imajine that what we have done will declare to the world in general that we are heros. What we have done is simply an eye for an eye, only we have raised the stakes to being the nation that has acted like a Lone Ranger vigilante from Texas, who ordered a little puppet government to, "Hang 'em high!".
This morning's news is full of positive spin on the exection. He was handed over to his "people", he was killed by the Iraqi "government". He had a "fair trial" and was handed the death sentence as a result of that trial. We are comforted by the idea that Hussain's execution will not increase or decrease the violence in Baghdad, according to the talking heads on my TV. Then why do I have a problem accepting this news as good news?
It is not the cause of the United States to meddle in the affairs of other countries. It should never have been the intent to out and out assasinate Saddam Hussain as a goal of the invasion of Iraq. Iraq should have been a ward of the United Nations from the start. Putting Iraq up to world deliberation would have kept the Muslim world from judging the outcome of Iraq from sliding into our lap. Except for England and the United States, the "hero" status of the US for invading Iraq will come into more objective scutiniy. Executing Hussain is bound to bring even more criticism, no matter how many times we reiterate that we , "turned Saddam Hussain over to Iraqi officials."
This morning, I wonder if I am the only US citizen who feels uncomfortable with this execution. Somehow, what happened seems to have the echo of evil inherent to the act, as well! The exections has an overbearing sense of orchestration to it, with the US as the conductor.
With this thought, comes the foreboding of what will become of the civil war developing in Iraq? What will the Muslim community think of this? Even though we have slain a ruthless dictator, did we have to kill him? Did we really? I can't imajine that what we have done will declare to the world in general that we are heros. What we have done is simply an eye for an eye, only we have raised the stakes to being the nation that has acted like a Lone Ranger vigilante from Texas, who ordered a little puppet government to, "Hang 'em high!".
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