[Vision2020] Reactions To Hanging

[Sunil Ramalingam]

I'm with Paul on this.

I really want to believe that it's more than self-interest that leads me to 
believe it's hard to have a fair trial when your lawyers keep getting 
killed.

I'm glad Andreas points out the other problems with the trial.

I find it interesting that he was put to death for executions in which the 
dead received 'trials' of some sort, rather than for the massacre of the 
Kurds, many of whom died by poison gas.  He should have been given a fair 
trial for these crimes against humanity.

Here's a link to Robert Fisk's article about the execution:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123006Z.shtml

I think Fisk is one of the best reporters on the Middle East, and has 
reported and correctly predicted what will happen next in Iraq since before 
the war started.

This execution is just one more sad chapter in this terrible invasion and 
war.  Not sad because Hussein was innocent; he was a butcher and a murderer. 
  Sad because it is farcical (sp?) given our historical support of him, and 
the blind eye we turned to so many of his crimes.  Sad because we somehow 
want to pretend it will make anything better in Iraq.  Sad because it won't, 
and we can't see our way out of this hell we created when it never had to 
happen.

Sunil