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Shiites Blew It With Saddam
Execution
By Mark Neckameyer
January 02, 2007
Tuesday PM
I shouldn't have given in to curiosity. I should not have watched
the Saddam execution on the Internet. I am a Conservative and
have always backed the death penalty for really bad people and
Saddam was a bona fide monster ... Still, watching made me feel
depressed all weekend. I may even be having second thought about
capital punishment being too gruesome and too much pure revenge
for civilized people and governments after watching those all
to happy goings on..
Any benefit the Iraqi government could have earned by bringing
Saddam "to justice" was more than wiped about by the
pictures and accounts of the Shiite songs a celebratory dances
around Saddam's lifeless body immediately after the execution
.. Danced by the people who killed him no less! Instead of an
elected government dealing out the people's justice they made
it all into a Shiite Muslim versus Sunni Muslim affair. I wonder
if anyone from our government warned them not to make this mistake?
Mark Neckameyer
Irvine, CA
Received January 01, 2007 - Published January 02, 2006
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