The Lynching of Saddam Hussein

[Zainab_M]

THE LYNCHING OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
(BY TARIK ALI) [/i]  


It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging--- most of it (bar the last moments) shown on state television in occupied Iraq.
 
It has been that sort of year in the Arab world. After a trial so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch---the largest single unit of the US Human Rights industry--- had to condemn it as a total travesty. Washington's orders; defence lawyers were killed and the whole procedure resembled a well-orchestrated lynch mob. Where Nurnberg was a more dignified application of victor's justice, Saddam's trial has, till now, been the crudest and most grotesque. The Great Thinker President's reference to it 'as a milestone on the road to Iraqi democracy' as clear an indication as any that Washington pressed the trigger. The contemptible leaders of the European Union, supposedly hostile to capital punishment, were silent, as usual. And while some Shia factions celebrated in Baghdad, the figures published by a fairly independent establishment outfit, the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies (its self-description: "which attempts to spread the conscious necessity of realizing basic freedoms, consolidating democratic values and foundations of civil society") reveal that just under 90 percent of Iraqis feel the situation in the country was better before it was occupied. The ICRSC research is based on detailed house-to-house interviewing carried out during the third week of November 2006. Only five percent of those questioned said Iraq is better today than in 2003; 89 percent of the people said the political situation had deteriorated; 79 percent saw a decline in the economic situation; 12 percent felt things had improved and 9 percent said there was no change.
 
Unsurprisingly, 95 percent felt the security situation was worse than before. Interestingly, about 50 percent of those questioned identified themselves only as "Muslims"; 34 percent as Shiites and 14 percent as Sunnis. Add to this the figures supplied by the UNHCR: 1.6 million Iraqis (7 percent of the population) have fled the country since March 2003 and 100,000 Iraqis leave every month, Christians, doctors, engineers, women, etc. There are one million in Syria, 750,000 in Jordan, 150,000 in Cairo. These are refugees that do not excite the sympathy of Western public opinion, since the US (and EU backed) occupation is the cause. These are not compared (as was the case in Kosovo) to the atrocities of the Third Reich. Perhaps it was these statistics (and the estimates of a million Iraqi dead) that necessitated the execution of Saddam Hussein? That Saddam was a tyrant is beyond dispute, but what is conveniently forgotten is that most of his crimes were committed when he was a staunch ally of those who now occupy the country. It was, as he admitted in one of his trial outbursts, the approval of Washington (and the poison gas supplied by West Germany) that gave him the confidence to douse Halabja with chemicals in the midst of the Iran-Iraq war. He deserved a proper trial and punishment in an independent Iraq. Not this.  

Source:  Rense.com

[N. Truth Seeker]

Good read.  Thanks for sharing sister!

[Zainab_M]

You're welcomed brother

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[N. Truth Seeker]

BTW sis, looking forward to the Justice or Revenge article u said u were working on ..   

[Zainab_M]

BTW sis, looking forward to the Justice or Revenge article u said u were working on ..  8)

Ah!  good u reminded me br. ts.  actually i wrote it quite sometime back and saved it in my 'politics' file but somehow forgot to copy & paste it here.  i guess it's this terrible head cold and hacking cough that's driving me nuts ..

i'll post it right away