An Execution By A Sovereign Government? Think Again

There have been so many things happen in the last week that I must admit I am a bit befuddled about where to go next. I am working on something regarding Boosh and the economy, Boosh and the new Congress, and the utter madness that he increasingly displays every day. Today he wants to demand bipartisanship? Amazing. Organizing it all is another matter entirely, so please bear with me just a little longer. I want to scream for help, but my room is soundproof so it wouldn't do any good. Until such time as I can figure out what is most important to do next, here is a short piece that is admittedly a little late in coming.

I can guarantee you that you won't find this angle on the Hussein execution anywhere in the mainstream media.

The Execution of Saddam Hussein By The American Government

If you listened to the latest version from the Boosh spin machine regarding the recent execution of Saddam Hussein, and chose to believe what you heard, it would go something like this. It took only 52 days from the conviction of Saddam Hussein for the murder of 148 Shiite men and boys in Dujail until he was hanged. This includes the completion of the appelate process. He was executed very close to the beginning of Eid, a religious holy period of sacrifice. Some say that the execution was illegal, including Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, a Kurd, who said the following. "No verdict should (be) implemented during the official holidays or religious festivals." The US government now states that this was the sole doings of the new, sovereign Iraqi government, and that all decisions were made by them. We merely held Saddam until minutes before he was executed, then took custody of his body immediately after and flew him to Tikrit so he could be buried in a dignified manner. (As one who has witnessed an execution along with the aftermath, I can tell you that there is nothing "dignified" about the way the US conducts executions, but that is an entirely different matter) "We would have done it differently," says US military spokesman Major William Caldwell. Oh really? Let's take a look at that.

Although Saddam Hussein refused to wear the customary hood during his hanging, those around him did not. You will have a hard time convincing me that there was no one present who was not an agent for the American government, either hooded or not. If no one was there, how would we have even known that the execution was carried out? How would we have known that Saddam was executed and not scurried away in the early morning hours? Answer, we wouldn't have.

Secondly, does one really believe that justice was done in this case, at least by American standards? Hardly. In our system, it is not unusual for a person to have multiple death sentences, often from different states, though obviously a person can only be killed once. Our need for revenge and supposed "closure" is so great that there is no way that we would have killed this evil tyrant before he at a minimum answered for the many thousands of Kurdish deaths that he was allegedly responsible for. Sounds like that supports the American version of events, right? Think again.

The fingerprints of George W. Boosh and the American government are all over this execution. Had the Iraqi's truly handled this matter on their own, there is no way that they would have broken Islamic law and carried it out so near the beginning of Eid. They would have known the furor that it would create. Sure, the execution would have been done soon, likely on Thursday or Friday of this week. But, no way it would have happened when it did. The al Maliki government is fighting for its very survival, is desperately trying to create peace and avoid things such as this that are obviously going to create chaos and further divide the Iraqi people. The reality was that the masters spoke, and the Iraqi government had no choice but to do what they were told. Oh, the effect was good, I'll give Booshco some credit for that. Somebody smuggles in a cell phone and videotapes the event, then it is leaked to the underground and picked up all over the world. Several people yell offensive things at Saddam throughout, all great drama designed to make one believe that in fact the Iraqi's were in charge. The problem is, it just doesn't wash.

There are many very compelling reasons that the US government wanted Saddam Hussein dead and out of the way BEFORE being tried on the charge of murdering the Kurds many years ago. I'll just mention a couple. Keep in mind, the Dujail murders happened in 1982, years before the Kurdish atrocities. It just so happens that one year later in 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, then working for Ronald Reagan, visited Saddam Hussein in one of his palaces. It was no secret at the time, there are pictures of the two shaking hands that are circulating today. But, Booshco does not want those pictures plastered all over our television sets for the duration of what would undoubtedly be a long trial. Out of sight, out of mind.

Nor do they want to revisit the reasons why Rumsfeld was visiting this brutal dictator at the time. Not that it was a big deal, he was just there to finalize the deal to deliver the very chemical and biological weapons that Saddam would later use on his own people. Of course we didn't intend for them to be used in that fashion, instead expected them to be used on the Iranians. But, when you go to bed with the devil, there is no guarantee who you might wake up with the next morning. Turns out that works both ways, as Saddam found out.

Isn't it ironic how things eventually come full circle? Warning: The following is a mouthful. First, we essentially create Saddam Hussein by supporting him during the Iraq/Iran war, give him weapons of mass destruction, he uses them against the Kurds, we then go to war in the 1990's against him for invading Kuwait, eventually send in inspectors who find and destroy the weapons that we gave him. Later we invade again, lying by claiming that he has the very weapons that we originally provided him yet knew all along that they had been destroyed, saying he is planning to use them on us, we then use the same type of weapons on the Iraqi people we are allegedly "liberating" in Fallujah, depose him, dig him out of a spyder hole, convict and finally execute him.

It's a strange world we live in.

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