Ding, dong, Saddam is dead!
This is the best news I’ve seen in a long time: Saddam Hussein has been executed.
The fledgling Iraqi government has it all over our American justice system. Fifty-six days after Saddam’s trial (AND appeal), they carried out his sentence: death by hanging. Bravo, Iraq! I salute you and applaud your move away from despotism and hopefully into a new era where your all people can live free. Probably won’t happen, especially since Sadr’s people have already turned Saddam execution into a sectarian issue, but one can hope.
Oh, and you can see the execution for yourself here and read the transcript of his final words here. (h/t: MVRWC)
Iraq The Model sums it all up:
Saddam drew his path to hell long time ago…he chose this fate the day he chose cruelty and oppression as a way to deal with his people. He built his reign with blood and terror and vowed to make death the fate of anyone who dared say no to him.Saddam lost his humanity the day he committed his first crime, so the one I saw walking to the rope this morning was no man to me.
It was him who rejected humanity to become the monster that the weak feared and prayed to see him dead for years to be safe from his crimes.
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On this day as we celebrate justice we shall not forget to pray for blessings for the souls of the dictator’s victims and we shall not forget to thank our brothers in America and the rest of the coalition nations who helped us and are still helping us in our struggle to build the new free and democratic Iraq.
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UPDATE: Predictably, the radical Left weeps for the death of this mass murderer. (The Jawa Report and Gateway Pundit have more extensive roundups of Liberal reaction.)
They’re not upset over the hundreds of thousands of Saddam’s victims, of course – not even the ones whose executions and mutilations were videotaped for his enjoyment. Nope, it’s much easier for these nutbags to mourn the passing of a brutal dictator and renew their howls for Bush’s execution instead. Oh, and don’t miss how many of them also screech about killing anyone on the Right. Nice tolerance ya got there, Libs.
Sheesh.
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
