The Execution of Saddam Hussein
Posted: Friday, December 29, 2006

Remember that this execution was carried out by a U.S. installed government in Iraq while the U.S. is also occupying Iraq. The U.S. illegally invaded Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Simply put, Saddam Hussein was executed by the U.S. government no matter how they try to spin it.

--Ayinde

¤ Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong

Flashback NO PROOF SADDAM GASSED THE KURDS!

¤ Where Were the Mass Graves?

¤ Executing Saddam, Protecting the Rackets

¤ Official Lies, Dogma and Unaccountable Power
¤ At the End of My Rope

¤ Saddam at the End of a Rope
It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging--- most of it (bar the last moments) shown on state television in occupied Iraq. It has been that sort of year in the Arab world. After a trial so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch---the largest single unit of the US Human Rights industry--- had to condemn it as a total travesty. Judges were changed on Washington's orders; defense lawyers were killed and the whole procedure resembled a well-orchestrated lynch mob. Where Nuremberg was a more dignified application of victor's justice, Saddam's trial has, till now, been the crudest and most grotesque. The Great Thinker President's reference to it 'as a milestone on the road to Iraqi democracy' as clear an indication as any that Washington pressed the trigger.

¤ A Nation Soaked in Blood Tears Itself Apart
¤ Storm Rages Over Trial, Sentence

¤ Bush Lies Again After Saddam Executed
Saddam Hussein had barely stopped dangling when George W. Bush revved up the lie machine.
His idea of justice is "rough justice" or "frontier justice" or "the King's justice," whereby if he calls it justice, it is justice. If he deems it a fair trial, it is a fair trial.

"Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial," he said in the very first sentence of his rushed statement, a claim Bush repeated, in case you missed it, in his second sentence and then again in his third.

But Bush, as powerful as he is, does not make a trial fair by declaring it fair.

¤ So Long to 'Our' Tyrant
¤ Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein

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The execution of Saddam Hussein is another grim chapter in the catalogue of war crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people. It is a gratuitous act of barbarism devoid of justice.

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BBC - Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq (with Iraqi TV images)

Saddam Hussein 'executed in Iraq'
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). It was witnessed by a doctor, lawyer and officials. It was also filmed.
Full Article : news.bbc.co.uk

Reports: Saddam Executed in Baghdad
Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.- financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.
Full Article : breitbart.com

Saddam Hussein hanged, says Al Hurra TV station
U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday.
Full Article : news.yahoo.com

Saddam Hussein was hanged just before 10 p.m. EST.
Full Article : talkingpointsmemo.com

It's a hornet's nest. But I'm game. So why not jump in.
"Bush administration officials" are telling CNN that Saddam Hussein will be hanged this weekend. Convention dictates that we precede any discussion of this execution with the obligatory nod to Saddam's treachery, bloodthirsty rule and tyranny. But enough of the cowardly chatter. This thing is a sham, of a piece with the whole corrupt, disastrous sham that the war and occupation have been. Bush administration officials are the ones who leak the news about the time of the execution. One key reason we know Saddam's about to be executed is that he's about to be transferred from US to Iraqi custody, which tells you a lot. And, of course, the verdict in his trial gets timed to coincide with the US elections.
Full Article : talkingpointsmemo.com

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But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?
Full Article : independent.co.uk


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The Execution of Saddam Hussein
The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein serves not justice, but the political purposes of the Bush administration and its Iraqi stooges. The manner in which the execution was carried out—hurriedly, secretively, in the dark of night, in a mockery of any semblance of legal process--only underscores the lawless and reactionary character of the entire American enterprise in Iraq.
Full Article : trinicenter.com

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