Good Night Sweet Prince or Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
It’s been six weeks since Saddam Hussein was killed by a pack of wild boars and the world is still glad to be rid of him
That's how the South Park movie from several years ago starts off. Unfortunately, although the makers of South Park usually bring the funny, their powers of divination were weak in this case. With the noise coming out of the MSM, one would think that the flag was at half mast for Saddam, and not for Jerry Ford.
That being said, the execution was a travesty of justice, and not because Saddam was executed. Rather it was in the manner of his execution. If you watch the video, (shot on a shaky phone camera like it was a G-Unit Concert.) You see Saddam is hung in a dark cellar, a former secret police facility, by masked men in leather jackets. At one point these thugs yell and scream at Saddam, while throwing honorifics on Moqtada Al-Sadr, that fat little weasel we duked it out with earlier in Najaf and elsewhere. As AllahPundit says the execution has all the appearance of one gangster whacking another, instead of an execution of a war criminal. And so it does.
Compare it to the decorum in the execution of the Nazis tried at Nuremburg. And Here
Saddam Hussein committed acts as vile as have ever been committed, one man upon another, and if Iraqi society, and indeed the world at large cannot say that Saddam Hussein was deserving of the most severe sanction society can impose, than society has no ability to impose punishments upon any one.
And despite the best efforts of Saddam, and his Quisling media opportunist lawyers like Ramsey Clark to disrupt it, the trial was conducted with at least some sense of decorum and law.
But the execution was not. Evidence points to the fact that the execution of Saddam was symbolic. Moqtada's goons got to pull the switch, and the facility used was a center for torturing Maliki's Dawa Party. The fact that Sadr's representatives agreed to rejoin the government shortly after the killing of Saddam seems to me to represent a deal made.
One does not overcome gangsterism with still more gangsterism. and one can not do it by putting a silk hat on a pig. One overcomes gangsterism with a steady, unrelenting application of the law. Unfortunately We do not seem to have the strength of will to maintain the control necessary to carry out the conversion of a country from a government which was little more than state-run mafiosos, to a representative free society. As I said in my post on Civil Society, there is more to freedom than elections.
I don't think all is lost. There seemed to be some evidence a few weeks ago the Al-Sistani was ready to disown Sadr which would undercut alot of his ideological value, but if Maliki's decided that he'll take the Mahdi Army over the Iraqi Army, then we may have to find someone else to work with.
That's how the South Park movie from several years ago starts off. Unfortunately, although the makers of South Park usually bring the funny, their powers of divination were weak in this case. With the noise coming out of the MSM, one would think that the flag was at half mast for Saddam, and not for Jerry Ford.
That being said, the execution was a travesty of justice, and not because Saddam was executed. Rather it was in the manner of his execution. If you watch the video, (shot on a shaky phone camera like it was a G-Unit Concert.) You see Saddam is hung in a dark cellar, a former secret police facility, by masked men in leather jackets. At one point these thugs yell and scream at Saddam, while throwing honorifics on Moqtada Al-Sadr, that fat little weasel we duked it out with earlier in Najaf and elsewhere. As AllahPundit says the execution has all the appearance of one gangster whacking another, instead of an execution of a war criminal. And so it does.
Compare it to the decorum in the execution of the Nazis tried at Nuremburg. And Here
Saddam Hussein committed acts as vile as have ever been committed, one man upon another, and if Iraqi society, and indeed the world at large cannot say that Saddam Hussein was deserving of the most severe sanction society can impose, than society has no ability to impose punishments upon any one.
And despite the best efforts of Saddam, and his Quisling media opportunist lawyers like Ramsey Clark to disrupt it, the trial was conducted with at least some sense of decorum and law.
But the execution was not. Evidence points to the fact that the execution of Saddam was symbolic. Moqtada's goons got to pull the switch, and the facility used was a center for torturing Maliki's Dawa Party. The fact that Sadr's representatives agreed to rejoin the government shortly after the killing of Saddam seems to me to represent a deal made.
One does not overcome gangsterism with still more gangsterism. and one can not do it by putting a silk hat on a pig. One overcomes gangsterism with a steady, unrelenting application of the law. Unfortunately We do not seem to have the strength of will to maintain the control necessary to carry out the conversion of a country from a government which was little more than state-run mafiosos, to a representative free society. As I said in my post on Civil Society, there is more to freedom than elections.
I don't think all is lost. There seemed to be some evidence a few weeks ago the Al-Sistani was ready to disown Sadr which would undercut alot of his ideological value, but if Maliki's decided that he'll take the Mahdi Army over the Iraqi Army, then we may have to find someone else to work with.
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