Saddam’s Verdict: The Day After

Posted on November 6, 2006
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Okay so it’s been one day since the great news has (have?) been announced. Unfortunately we’re going to have to wait for the long process of appeals to be made first before the day actually comes. Anyways, it’s time to bring back the focus to the current and more important situation right now. Saddam’s death sentence won’t do much to calm down the violence in Iraq. The killings will just continue and we must do something to reduce them. Regardless of whether it will be a Congress full of Democrats or Republicans, something needs to be done and done quickly.

PS: I’m still confused over the whole Maliki, Sadr & Bush thingy. I find it crazy.

UPDATE: Big Pharaoh has an interesting opinion.

As for my reaction, I don’t really care. There is so much death in Iraq to care about the death Saddam caused

Well, unlike BP I do care and I am happy about Saddam getting what he deserves (after the appeals fail hopefully). However just like BP I must say that the sweetness of Saddam’s execution won’t be sweet enough to erase the bitterness of all the innocent deaths Iraq has been witnessing and continues to witness everyday.

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4 Responses to “Saddam’s Verdict: The Day After”

  1. Mark on November 6th, 2006 5:07 am

    I am not sure that much needs to be done in Iraq. Just let them fight it out. There will be no conflict if there are not two groups to fight eachother. Strangely enough, this is my solution to Israel and Palestine too.

  2. Finnpundit on November 7th, 2006 2:53 am

    The “thingy” problem is understood simply in these terms: Maliki has democratic legitimacy by now, and though Bush may not like it, Maliki must be free to make policy as he sees necessary.

    In the end, the Bush Administration is probably glad that Maliki has contact with Sadr, as the US is never going to have the same kind of contact. The goal is to get Sadr to agree to federalism (a tri-partite balance of power between Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds), instead of sectarian conflict. Only Maliki (or any other Prime Minister of Iraq) is in a position where Sadr, and other sectarians, can be persuaded as to the advantages of a federal Iraq.

  3. Finnpundit on November 7th, 2006 6:20 am

    From AP:

    “The verdict placed on the heads of the former regime does not represent a verdict for any one person. It is a verdict on a whole dark era that was unmatched in Iraq’s history,” Nouri al-Maliki said.

    Maliki has all the hallmarks of an able politician and statesman.

  4. Vigilante on November 14th, 2006 2:22 pm

    Finnpundit, the only legitimacy Malicki enjoys is with the reporters reporting from within the Green Zone, which is as far as his writ reaches.

    Drima: Saddam’s death is important in this way: eventually, sooner or later or much later we will leave Iraq with a thuggish strong man in power. We can’t leave “sooner” until we make sure it’s not going to be Saddam. Only by leaving with his head in hand, can Bush be confident that his minimalist objective of regime change has been accomplished. (There’s another way to accomplish “sooner”, but that’s another post altogether.)

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