Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that executions of Saddam Hussein and two others were mishandled and said she hoped that those responsible for making cell phone videos of Saddam's execution will be punished.
"We were disappointed there was not greater dignity given to the accused under these circumstances," Rice said during a news conference with her Egyptian counterpart.
Is this a joke? Saddumb received approximately 1000% more dignity than any of his victims. How about the Kurds who choked on their own tongues and asphyxiated after a little gas treatment? Were their ends dignified? Or those who were beaten and tortured to death in his prisons? How about those lucky individuals blindfolded and tossed off roofs, to lie broken or dead on the pavement below? The epitome of dignity, huh? I wonder if Conyaleewza thinks the mass rapes--followed by discarding used-up women in holes in the ground--were proper terminations of life on Earth? Saddumb's execution was polite and genteel in comparison.
Rice also said the executions were Iraqi government decisions, not those of the United States.
"Let me just say that the decision concerning the execution of Saddam Hussein and the two defendants today were made according to Iraqi process and Iraqi law," she said.
I thought that was the whole point, Conyaleewza. All the bloodshed is for the benefit of the Iraqis, so they can rein in their people and govern as an independent country. Yet you use this very goal as a tool for criticizing Iraq and distancing the American government from the executions. Are we attempting to coalesce a post-Saddumb country that can take care of its own business without us, or not? Make up your mind.
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