3 January 2007 - 11:35pm
Iraq government takes cue from Bush Administration, chases video leaks
Never mind the fact that the execution was performed with such depravity (as if there ever could be a dignified hanging, anyway) -- the Iraqi government has arrested the leakers.
Iraqi authorities reported the arrests Wednesday of two guards and an official who supervised Saddam Hussein's hanging and said the guard force was infiltrated by outsiders who taunted the former leader and shot the video showing his body dangling at the end of a rope.
The unauthorized video, which ignited protests by Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs in various Iraqi cities, threatens to turn the ousted dictator into a martyr. Saddam was shown never bowing his head as he faced death, and asking the hecklers if they were acting in a manly way.
How ironic. So is it really the video that threatens to make Saddam a martyr? Or could it be his lynching by hooligans?
It really says something about this Iraqi government, how they treat the condemned.
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Well, sure. But I think the fact that they kill them is rather worse than the fact that some of the hangmen taunt them first.
There's no right way to commit judicial murder.
Capital punishment doesn't deter crime. In fact, it might actually contribute to violent crime by officially sanctioning deliberate killing under certain circumstances.
Still, given the fact of capital punishment, Saddam's execution seems to have been more in the line of a lynching than a state-run execution.