Comments on: Dead Men Walking!

By: Alberto

Alberto — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:36:00 +0000

At times it needs the blood of the patriots, to irrigate it. Other times of the tyrants. But I never saw a revolution sealing its mark with a jail rather than with a guillotine. Advocating jail for Saddam is like advocating jail for Louis XVI or Charles I or Robespierre.

By: can we talk now

can we talk now — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:00:10 +0000

i don’t believe in the death penalty for anyone, no matter how evil, they are, as a matter of principle.

and how..Hanging? so uncivilized. don’t tell me he was uncivilized, that’s beside the point.

i would rather he rots in jail for the rest of his days, with years to think about what he has done, and i would pray that he lives to be a hundred and twenty.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:26:48 +0000

How would you go about it though?

In general platitudinal (?) terms, you be an individual force for good. The sum should reflect the parts.

Is it pessimistic to say that the nature of the universe is one of conflict and opposing forces?

By: mahmood

mahmood — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:28:23 +0000

Very true, crazy chef, thanks for your contribution.

How would you go about it though? Because it is a rather difficult subject and people as well as groups are always fighting for dominance. Just look at the electoral scene in Bahrain at the moment.

By: crazy chef

crazy chef — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:01:10 +0000

we should work on making the world a better place free from dictatorship and sexual and racial and religious oppresian if we do this i believe that we might acctually have a period of peace in this warfaring world! =D :yes: =O

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:26:17 +0000

Excellent post. I couldn’t have said it better.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:02:19 +0000

Thanks Bill, I’ll check that out. Also, for a great post on the trial and the situation in Iraq, check out http://www.docstrangelove.com/ ’s “Dismembering Iraq”. Mash writes great analyses and ought to write professionally. But, he’s the son of an ex-diplomat so he’s had the advantage of inside observation as it were,
Ingrid

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:45:48 +0000

As much as I agree with Saddam’s deserved demise, other issues such as the culpability of the US propping him up and aiding and abetting him during his dictatorship comes to mind

This is an argument often brought forth, but unfortunately for how much it is used, it rings badly flawed.
The USA (and I am no USA citizen) did not only run business with Saddam, but – hey! – also with the Soviet Union, to the degree that in order to beat Hitler, they were allied with… the Red Army!

Now, what does that mean: that since they were allied for a while, they were supposed after WW2 to close their eyes before the soviet gulags where 30 millions died?

Not only, but the Soviet Union, throughout the Cold War, was ceasessly supplied with food for its population.
I see no contradiction in any of this.

You don’t make of a guy you don’t like your ebemy in one day: first you try to see if you can move it unto another path by deals. And if you were allied with the soviets for a war, doesn’t mean you have forfeited your right to fight them if they become as much dangerous as Hitler was.

Alberto

By: billT

billT — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:40:05 +0000

Saddam is going to make a fine resistance symbol no matter how he is executed. Iraq Sunni’s aren’t going to like it guilty or not. Also got to say the the judges have a huge set of balls since their lives aren’t worth a penny now.

You know its not like the US didn’t know about what might happen if we invade Iraq. We war gamed the invasion in 1999 with similar results to what is happening now.

billT

By: a Duoist

a Duoist — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:27:18 +0000

The thousand years of absolutism in Christian Europe began to crack wide open when the Church’s entrenched system of burning alive tens of thousands of women for fornicating with Satan was utterly discredited by the growth of objective science.

As objectivity becomes a value in the Arab world (the West received Greek ‘objectivity’ from Islamic scholars), all the Middle Eastern thugs will fall.

Congratulations to the Iraqi people on their trial of Saddam Hussein; with their blood they have earned their justice.

‘Be free,’ Mahmood.