http://cmkl.ca/2006/12/30/feeling-bad-for-saddam-hussein/ Chris Lawson's personal website Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:11:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cmkl.ca/2006/12/30/feeling-bad-for-saddam-hussein/comment-page-1/#comment-40 irene Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-40 Yes, the hanging was horrifying, but don't let his old pathetic aging image sway us from remembering his murderous career, as he -- like so many tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Gengis Khan and Idi Amin -- climbed over the dead bodies of many thousands he had slaughtered on his way up to the throne of megalomania. Did we want Iraqi justice, or American justice, if any justice was warranted? Perhaps, we may have been even more horrified had he been beheaded. Our Western sensibilities are so heightened, though, that could we have looked at this mess differently if he had been "euthanized" more humanely like, say, with a lethal injection? He was just another thug who deserved to die, if we are to judge criminals. We just don't have enough intestinal fortitude to watch it. He knew the end had come, and every person, however evil or vile, sees their mortality before them and reacts differently. How will we act when we go, each to our own end, peacefully or not? Yes, the hanging was horrifying, but don’t let his old pathetic aging image sway us from remembering his murderous career, as he — like so many tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Gengis Khan and Idi Amin — climbed over the dead bodies of many thousands he had slaughtered on his way up to the throne of megalomania. Did we want Iraqi justice, or American justice, if any justice was warranted? Perhaps, we may have been even more horrified had he been beheaded. Our Western sensibilities are so heightened, though, that could we have looked at this mess differently if he had been “euthanized” more humanely like, say, with a lethal injection? He was just another thug who deserved to die, if we are to judge criminals. We just don’t have enough intestinal fortitude to watch it. He knew the end had come, and every person, however evil or vile, sees their mortality before them and reacts differently. How will we act when we go, each to our own end, peacefully or not?

]]> http://cmkl.ca/2006/12/30/feeling-bad-for-saddam-hussein/comment-page-1/#comment-41 cmkl Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-41 Err. Yes. I botched that one too. Not up on proper execution language use. Err. Yes. I botched that one too. Not up on proper execution language use.

]]> http://cmkl.ca/2006/12/30/feeling-bad-for-saddam-hussein/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Visitor Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-43 Well, say what you will about how well hung Saddam was , but the fact is he was not well "hanged". The Iraqis botched that one! Well, say what you will about how well hung Saddam was , but the fact is he was not well “hanged”. The Iraqis botched that one!

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