Feeling Sorry for Saddam? Let's Review His Crimes...

For those liberals, leftists and Marxists (like Robert Scheer of the San Francisco Chronicle) who are feeling sorry for Saddam Hussein, let's review some of Saddam's crimes.

Was Saddam's excecution too hasty? Not adequately dignified? Too rude (with people yelling at him)?

Well, gee....

Saddam didn't have much concern for niceties himself while executing thousands of his countrymen. According to the U.S. Department of State:

The Iraqi regime...repeatedly refused visits by human rights monitors. From 1992
until 2002, Saddam prevented the UN Special Rapporteur from visiting Iraq. The
UN Special Rapporteur's September 2001, report criticized the regime for "the
sheer number of executions," the number of "extrajudicial executions on
political grounds," and "the absence of a due process of the law."

Saddam Hussein's regime...carried out frequent summary executions,
including:
4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984;
3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998;
2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a "prison cleansing campaign;"
122 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000;
23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001; and
At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001.

The report goes on to say that Saddam executed 40 members of his own family.

Though not mentioned in the report, not all of Saddam's victims died by the noose. Some were shot, some died after being tortured, some were fed alive into plastic shredders, and still others were boiled in oil. At least one victim took a bath in acid. One victim was an eleven year old boy.

The patent idiot Robert Scheer had the audacity to imply that Saddam Hussein was the "terrorized" rather than the terrorist. Considering how many people Saddam executed for trivial reasons and without any due process of law, his hanging was way too good for him.

By the way, Saddam Hussein was not "hung." American Marines are "hung." Saddam Hussein was "hanged." Conservatives are "hung" while liberals should just be "hanged," preferably from light poles throughout every major city (I'm joking! There are litter laws, after all).

It never ceases to amaze me how often the Lame Stream Media gets this wrong.

The Saddam Hanging: Post-Mortem Thoughts

I have always felt ambivalent about the death penalty. When we were in high school Bro wrote a term paper on the death penalty and read a book called "Agent of Death." It was written by an executioner who had put many people to death in the electric chair, including some famous criminals. At the end of his book the author repudiated the death penalty, stating that he hoped someday it would no longer be used.

I understand. Putting another human to death is a sobering and serious undertaking. I always go through the thought process again when someone is executed. In the end, I usually wind up supporting the decision to execute. The main reason for this is that those executed usually committed some grievous act of villainy. They didn't care about the fear or pain of those they killed, and so their own fear and pain in the face of death deserves little sympathy. In a few cases I had no qualms at all - the execution of Ted Bundy for example. I would have been happy to pull the switch myself on that S.O.B. Bundy killed around 100 women, raping many of them first, but sometimes just bashing their heads in for the fun of it. Sweet dreams, Ted.

After viewing the crime scene pictures of the people he murdered, I didn't have much sympathy for Tookie Williams either. He killed people for fun, not out of any necessity. His robberies netted him small amounts of money and the people he robbed were not a threat to him. He blasted a family of three with a shotgun to steal $10 from them. The picture of the daughter's face, peppered with hundreds of small pellet holes, was memorable. Screw you, Tookie, and sayonara.

Nevertheless, it's natural to put yourself in the shoes of the person being executed. The grim execution chamber, the steps leading up to the gallows (traditionally, thirteen steps), the fixing of the noose, or the buckles on the chair, or the needles in the vein, are pretty gruesome. In the case of Saddam, I had to wonder what it must be like once they have affixed the noose and pushed the prisoner onto the trap. Those few seconds before they spring the trap must seem an eternity.

They say Saddam was trembling with fear on the scaffold and had tears in his eyes just before they sprung the trap. I wonder if he thought about the many people who went before him to the same trap, people he had ordered executed for trivial reasons? Hundreds, if not thousands of people were hanged on his orders. I'm sure he didn't spend five minutes thinking about their fear of death or wondering what it was like to hang, or what their families felt about their deaths. Killing people made him a tough guy, someone to be feared. It fed his ego to have the power of life and death, and it was a power he wielded ruthlessly. Saddam once had one of his generals hanged for criticizing him in public, but had his tongue cut out first.

So Saddam was scared and trembling and had tears in his eyes when they killed him. Now ain't that just too damned bad.

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After Hanging Saddam - Who's Next?

The eve of Saddam's hanging for crimes against humanity is a good time for introspection and meditation.

For the remaining tyrants and despots of the Middle East and elsewhere, we offer this inspiring photo to assist in that effort.

It's just our humble effort to help secure World Peace.