BBC: No Arab Euphoria At Saddam Death

Saturday, 30 December, 17:27 GMT

Although the news of Saddam Hussein's execution was widely anticipated in the region,
it has been greeted with a mixture of surprise and anger in some quarters - and notable
silence in others.

For many ordinary people in the Arab world, Saddam Hussein was admired if not
particularly loved.

He was an active and strident supporter of the Palestinian cause and many regarded
him as a strong leader who dared to defy both America and Israel. Images of the former
leader having a noose pulled around his neck will shock many.

Libya has declared three days of national mourning.

Lawmakers and members of the militant Palestinian group, Hamas, have condemned the
execution, with one calling it "a political assassination" that "violated international law."

Saudi Arabia said it was surprised and dismayed at the timing of the execution on the
first day of the muslim festival of Eid al-adha. There was also criticism at how quickly
the trial was over amid accusations it had been politicised.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6219765.stm

Another instance of Cowboy Georgie's frontier justice that is going to cost us dearly in
lives and (mostly borrowed) national treasure.

distrusting each other in every country.
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He's proving it by uniting the world against us.

:)

in the Middle East. If there was no religious divide, this act would galvanize the entire region against us. I suspect that we will be seeing repercussions and retaliation against US interests for years to come. Bush is trying his damndest to create a real war, forget the terror baloney.

Gee, no Arab euphoria over an execution! Those Arabs just don't have the same "culture of life" that Bush has.

:sarcasm: OFF

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genuine as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue. Our M$M just loves to distort for the war profiteering corporations. The more hatred spewed, the greater possibility of endless wars. War is good for our Military Industrial Complex. Newsflash, many of our representatives, both democratic and republican are invested in WAR Profiteering Companies and/or get mega-bucks in campaign contributions from these ghouls. One company uses the slogan, "We know who we're working for." I wonder if the poor bloody infantry and MP units patrolling Baghdad realize they are fighting for war profiteering mega-corporations? Not for democracy but for PRIVATIZATION. ;)

An understatement.

:nuke:

They've wanted him dead for over a decade now.

the political armpit of the United States, the news stations showed celebrating Iraqis that live here. Talking about what a wonderful thing that hanging was. Channel 6, the one I usually like, was especially disgusting.

But then, this is Nebraska. Where Ben Nelson is called a democrat. And he bragged during his re-election campaign about the praise he got from Chimpy for supporting him. (Could be worse, could be Liebermann.)

complicity in the same case. When will our Commander and Chief, Gee Dub, be held to account for his homicidal criminal activities?

Uniform Code of Military Justice
899. ART. 99. MISBEHAVIOR BEFORE THE ENEMY

(6) quits his place of duty to plunder or pillage;

(7) causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the armed forces;

(8) willfully fails to do his utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy;...

...shall be punished by death or such punishment as a court-martial may direct.

This also seems pertinent;

Justice Jackson on War Trials Agreement; August 12, 1945 Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

The rest of the world did not.

BushCo did not give a rat's ass about the crimes
Saddam committed. Only cared about the oil Saddam was
sitting on.

problem has been so fragil. We had no respect for that region, or their lifes. Such a shame.

hung are on an American Base.

in the green zone. I thought that was off the hook.

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It should have been Iraqi hands strangling the life from Hussein, not the occupiers' henchmen.

from what we can see.

The US will pay dearly for this lynching. I'm watching BBC now and there are demonstrations with people screaming vengence. Demonstrations in Iraq, West Bank, Jordan (one of Saddam's daughters was there), Lebanon, and other places. Let MSM and Bush believe people are happy. They are always clueless.