Monday, January 01, 2007

Bravery in Saddam's Iraq

"When an attendee of the execution foolishly shouted "Muqtada", Saddam responded by asking "is this your manhood?" or "is this what you consider bravery?" I didn't like hearing Muqtada's name during the execution, as if this was being done to avenge Muqtada. Sadr's was only one of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families who lost innocent loved ones to Saddam's regime. This is justice for Iraq, for all Iraqis. I would have done a few things differently if I were in charge of the execution, starting with postponing it until after the Anfal trial. But I am dismayed by Arabs and Muslims who are calling it a 'barbaric lynching'. I wonder if they have ever considered the barbarity of the insurgency in Iraq, or the barbarity of Saddam's regime.

The remark about bravery - one of Saddam's last - reminded me of what fedayeen Saddam did to a 25 year old Iraqi woman in 2000. Apparently this is an example what Saddam considered to be the mark of bravery in his Iraq:"
Iraqi Mojo

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