Uncle Spielberg
Well-known member
It is almost impossible to imagine how the USA/UK coalition forces and the Kangaroo Iraqi courts could have made a bigger hash of the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein.
To hang him on the 1st day of a religious holiday, to hang him with a crowd of invited enemies and religious opposites, to allow people to stand and video on their mobiles, to allow the chanting, to have it on the internet within an hour.
Bush was tucked up in bed and Blair was sunning his pasty paunch by the pool discussing Saturday Night Fever with Robin Gibb.
You have to remind yourself of all the evil hussein did to wipe out the memory of the execution.
I am not saying Hussein did not deserve to go the way he personally ordered 30000 of his enemies to go although in principle I am against the death penalty as it is committing a crime to punish a crime but the final impression of Saddam is one of dignity and incredible bravery against a terrible backdrop and I hate myself for thinking that but if Bush wanted Saddam to blub and beg for forgiveness he could not have got it more wrong.
Now the Arab allies are speaking out.
Bush and Blair are now no better than the Al Queda henchmen and the similarities in the home videos are incredible, hooded thugs carrying out a murder.
Bush should have been next to Saddam by rights but I doubt very much if he would have shown such bravery.
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Hanging 'makes martyr of Saddam'
Mubarak's comments reflect the feelings of many Sunni Muslims
The circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein have turned the former Iraqi leader into a martyr, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has said.
Mr Mubarak said the unofficial pictures that emerged of the event were revolting and barbaric.
The chaotic scenes at the execution, during which Saddam was taunted, have been condemned across the world.
Egypt is a key regional ally of the US and one of only two Arab states to have signed a peace deal with Israel.
No-one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed - they turned him into a martyr, and the problems in Iraq remained
Hosni Mubarak
Mr Mubarak also revealed that he had sent a message to US President George W Bush to urge him not to allow the execution to take place during the Eid al-Adha, the Islamic feast that marks the end of the Hajj.
US officials, including Mr Bush, have distanced themselves from the way in which the execution was carried out, but insisted that justice was served.
The Egyptian president's comments came in an interview with Israel's best-selling daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot daily. They were also published by the official Egyptian news agency.
Holiday prayers
"People are executed all over the world, but what happened in Baghdad on the first day of Eid al-Adha was unthinkable. I didn't believe it was happening," he said.
Egypt was close to Iraq until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990
"Why did they have to hurry? Why hang him when people are reciting their holiday prayers? Then the pictures of the execution were revolting and barbaric.
"I am not saying whether Saddam did or did not deserve the death penalty. I am also not getting into the question of whether this court is lawful under occupation."
Relations between Egypt and Iraq were friendly until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Egypt participated militarily in the international coalition that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
Hosni Mubarak strongly advised the United States not to lead the invasion of Iraq in 2003 in which Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
To hang him on the 1st day of a religious holiday, to hang him with a crowd of invited enemies and religious opposites, to allow people to stand and video on their mobiles, to allow the chanting, to have it on the internet within an hour.
Bush was tucked up in bed and Blair was sunning his pasty paunch by the pool discussing Saturday Night Fever with Robin Gibb.
You have to remind yourself of all the evil hussein did to wipe out the memory of the execution.
I am not saying Hussein did not deserve to go the way he personally ordered 30000 of his enemies to go although in principle I am against the death penalty as it is committing a crime to punish a crime but the final impression of Saddam is one of dignity and incredible bravery against a terrible backdrop and I hate myself for thinking that but if Bush wanted Saddam to blub and beg for forgiveness he could not have got it more wrong.
Now the Arab allies are speaking out.
Bush and Blair are now no better than the Al Queda henchmen and the similarities in the home videos are incredible, hooded thugs carrying out a murder.
Bush should have been next to Saddam by rights but I doubt very much if he would have shown such bravery.
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Hanging 'makes martyr of Saddam'
Mubarak's comments reflect the feelings of many Sunni Muslims
The circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein have turned the former Iraqi leader into a martyr, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has said.
Mr Mubarak said the unofficial pictures that emerged of the event were revolting and barbaric.
The chaotic scenes at the execution, during which Saddam was taunted, have been condemned across the world.
Egypt is a key regional ally of the US and one of only two Arab states to have signed a peace deal with Israel.
No-one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed - they turned him into a martyr, and the problems in Iraq remained
Hosni Mubarak
Mr Mubarak also revealed that he had sent a message to US President George W Bush to urge him not to allow the execution to take place during the Eid al-Adha, the Islamic feast that marks the end of the Hajj.
US officials, including Mr Bush, have distanced themselves from the way in which the execution was carried out, but insisted that justice was served.
The Egyptian president's comments came in an interview with Israel's best-selling daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot daily. They were also published by the official Egyptian news agency.
Holiday prayers
"People are executed all over the world, but what happened in Baghdad on the first day of Eid al-Adha was unthinkable. I didn't believe it was happening," he said.
Egypt was close to Iraq until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990
"Why did they have to hurry? Why hang him when people are reciting their holiday prayers? Then the pictures of the execution were revolting and barbaric.
"I am not saying whether Saddam did or did not deserve the death penalty. I am also not getting into the question of whether this court is lawful under occupation."
Relations between Egypt and Iraq were friendly until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Egypt participated militarily in the international coalition that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
Hosni Mubarak strongly advised the United States not to lead the invasion of Iraq in 2003 in which Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
