Tony speaks
Tony Blair has about the execution of Saddam Hussein -- if only through an offical spokesperson. The manner of the dictator's execution was "completely wrong", we're now told. Similar comments by the chancellor, Gordon Brown, seem to have painted Downing Street into a rhetorical corner leaving the PM with no option but to make a statement. Now the PM looks like he's only commenting on an execution in order to take the spotlight away from the chancellor. Politics is a funny business.
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Can someone give me one good reason why Saddam Hussein deserved a dignified execution? Would Hitler have had he been captured alive? Would Osama Bin Laden? (please, none of that bleeding heart, the death of any man diminishes us all nonsense.)
OH COME ON MARK!!!
He should have had a cup of tea and chocolate biscuit first, and perhaps a lick of paint around the room might have been nice - some pleasant neutral colours perhaps. And was it out of the question for him to have had an indian massage just before the noose was tightened to chill him out a bit? And maybe a limousine to take him to the gallows might have been a respectful touch too.
He was after all a great man...
SG
Stephen G: Why does this have to be an either-or? Asking for the execution to be carried out with some sense of dignity is hardly asking for too much, surely? Being concerned with such matters does not reduce to a position underestimating the appalling crimes committed by Saddam. Let's not lose a sense of proportion here.
Veronica- Your only problem was with the dignity of Saddam's execution? You call it undignified, when it involves execution? What harm was done by this last minute reminder of what Saddam did to deserve execution in the first place? That he had to think about that in his final two minutes of life was an outrage? Deplorable? Disgusting? It was a "botched" execution? Because in your skewed perception of injustice, the heating system wasn't adequate, a ritual silence was not observed and the decor was not quite up to your standard.
What a strange world we live in.
I quote from White House secretary Tony Snow (thank God a much more sensible voice than anything that's so far come from UK government leaders): "There seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 [years], in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people.鈥
#3 Veronica Keys wrote: "Stephen G: Why does this have to be an either-or? Asking for the execution to be carried out with some sense of dignity is hardly asking for too much, surely?"
# 4 John Wright wrote: "Veronica- Your only problem was with the dignity of Saddam's execution?"
Bravo, Veronica: It is a both/and situation.
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In an execution there is the dignity of the condemned and there is the dignity of those carrying out the execution, the dignity of the State that is condoning it, and when broadcast there is the dignity of those who watch.
Cordially,
Michael
Satire.
Sarcasm.
Lost on you people.
SG
Stephen, you are obviously on a higher intellectual plane to the rest of us. Your humour, your intelligence, your insight, your verbal skills leave us all breathless with appreciation and respect. How can we ever hope to emulate your brilliance, your wit and your sparkling personality?
Veronica Keys #8
Does that mean that upon learning of Saddam Hussein's death you didn't sing a chorus from that hymn in the Wizard of Oz, "Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead" the way I did?
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