Making a Martyr of Saddam

Another well-articulated piece on this sorry episode. The description of Bush as a bankrupt gambler - who knows he`ll get it all back at the end - is quite apt. Far from the sure-footed ``war president`` as he saw himself in an audacious flourish, encouraged by a conniving and manipulating coterie of yes-men, he`s now exposed as a bumbling idiot, true to his severely limited ability to be good at anything other than being a ``nice guy to have a beer with.``

``But this sordid episode adds yet another feather of ignominy and shame in the cap of the Muslim world``.
I post a similar reaction from a humanbeing:
daunting voice --of Bob Ellis, Australian, ABC Breakfast Radio National programme of 3rd January at 7-30 am--Rashid:-

``Breakfast`s guest this morning is the author of 17 books. He`s a journalist, speech writer and endearing rogue who has been described as a ``wise romatic fool`` - Who else could it be but Bob Ellis who is appalled by the hanging of Saddam Hussein.
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`With its usual stunning incompetence, the Bush administration has made of Saddam`s hanging a secular Golgotha for Arab children to revere down the centuries.
The hero behaves impeccably, and as the rope tightens, his captors in black hoods jeer and curse him, shouting the name of his enemy Moqtada, and interrupt his final prayer of surrender to God, by dropping him prematurely from the scaffold and filming his swinging corpse and open eyes.
They then in a US helicopter take his coffin, demanding it be interred by night lest a great crowd gather, to a graveyard containing his two sons and grandson Mustafa, hereinafter a tribal shrine.
By this they hoped to draw a line beneath his ugly era. They have instead opened up a fissure in the Arab world, and a stink in the nostrils of Christendom, which can only grow.
On a holy day, on a Head of State, on a Biblical scaffold like a Rembrandt painting, after a dodgy trial in which three of his lawyers were shot, and after the pornographic filming of a death that no reporter, unprecedentedly, was allowed to see, Maliki and Bush have shown themselves to be diplomatic farceurs, who have made an Abu Ghraib of what could have been a national cleansing.` ``

``It wasn’t a crime to fit the description of ‘a crime against humanity.’ ``

Paki Islamists trying to incite the Ummah by ``proving`` how the Iraqi court was wrong, how the judge was biased and pass their verdict declaring SH as an innocent ``martyr`` in the light of the global conspiracy and Crusades by the christian west .

The shias in Iraq are jubilant over Saddam`s murder. It doesnt` matter
that Saddam had shia majority in his cabinet. It doesn`t matter that a
foreign invader has their country occupied and is using them to secure
a foothold. It doesn`t matter that american soldiers are raping and killing
their countrymen en masse. The US admin is giving 10 year stay assess-
ments to Congress and has started building forts in Iraq which is going
to serve as their future colony. None of this could have been possible
without shia help.

In return, shia militias have gotten a blank check to wreak mass scale
mayhem and murder on Sunnis. Karbala ka inteqaam ?.

In 1991, when Baghdad was being pounded for days on end, I remember
a CNN reporter remarking that despite being hit so hard, the lights were
on in the city. The camera panned over to a deserted highway which
was lit up with bright lights in the middle of the night. Today, Baghdad
is lucky to get electricity for an hour/day. Aside from his dignified and
brave exit, Saddam will be remembered for building and holding a nation
together.

I hope Bush sends a lot more G.I.s to Iraq which come back and push up
daisies in Arlington cemetery. So that future generations will dare not look
towards the Muslim world as easy pickings, the shias notwithstanding.

It is simple: Jiski laaThi, uski bhains. He who pays the piper calls the tunes!

Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials (another show trial), said: When we were in power, we did whatever we wanted. Now you (the Allies) are in power, you do whatever you want.

The same is true in Iraq.