A Lynching…
Sunday, December 31st, 2006 by billFrom Baghdad Burning
It’s official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a new low. It’s outrageous- an execution during Eid. Muslims all over the world (with the exception of Iran) are outraged. Eid is a time of peace, of putting aside quarrels and anger- at least for the duration of Eid.
This does not bode well for the coming year. No one imagined the madmen would actually do it during a religious holiday. It is religiously unacceptable and before, it was constitutionally illegal. We thought we’d at least get a few days of peace and some time to enjoy the Eid holiday, which coincides with the New Year this year. We’ve spent the first two days of a holy holiday watching bits and pieces of a sordid lynching.
America the savior– After nearly four years and Bush’s biggest achievement in Iraq has been a lynching. Bravo Americans.
Maliki has made the mistake of his life. His signature and unhidden glee at the whole execution, especially on the first day of Eid Al Adha (the Eid where millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage to Mecca), will only do more to damage his already tattered reputation. He’s like a vulture in a suit (or a balding weasel). It’s almost embarrassing. I kept expecting Muwafaq Al Rubaii to run over and wipe the drool from the corner of his mouth as he signed for the execution. Are these the people who represent the New Iraq? We’re in so much more trouble than I ever thought.
And no- not the celebrations BBC are claiming. With the exception of a few areas, the streets are empty.
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I find it sad that this commentary does not take into account the executions of Saddam during his reign of well over 300,000 people including women,children as well as those of mental and physical handicap. Saddam executed people of all ethnicities any day and holiday he saw fit to do so….And of all the good that has come from ousting this monster all your media ever reports are the bad happenings and rhetoric that has been told over and over again like a bad record skipping. Get over yourselves….You have very short memory spans…Saddam used nerve gas on 1000’s of his own countrymen,murdered innocents alongside thieves and sadly the people who were liberated after Saddam’s ousting are the very same who murder out of religous ferver and racial lines,they take without asking and care only for themselves. Sadly the media including the LIBERAL MEDIA are but pawns who spread propaganda knowingly and willingly in a effort to spread their own agenda of fear,fanatism and ultimately will seal the fates of millions of innocents just to push their own beliefs on everybody else.
Hey Pete the story is from last Dec. and you have some valid points. I have to agree Saddam was an evil killer but he was the U.S. Governments guy and we allowed him to carry on as he wished. We are partly responsible for his actions. The occupation is also our doing and it only suits the interest of big oil and the defense contractors that own our country.