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Originally posted by HardDrive
Wow. That sucks.
Strange how we can really have good aims, but be so incapable of understanding the subtle issues, and thus our message is lost in a sea of anger.
In a time when sectarian violence is raging, Saddams executioners taunt him with *****e taughts. Saddam responds to them, admonishing them that sectarianism is tearing Iraq apart.
The average American (not knowing arabic) sees in the news that Saddams excutioners 'taughted' him. The press says that he was 'defiant until the end."
Well, yeah, but they did not shout "To avenge your victims!". They shouted *****e taughts. The arab world sees this, and it causes outrage. They see the entire execution, and see an old man being snuffed by masked *****e thugs. It makes the entire trial seem like a kangaroo court. And because the entire process has the US stamp of approval all over it, Sunni's are inflamed even further.
We can do 90% of the things right, but its that 10% where we just fail to understand the problem that kills us.
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this is one reason why in the other thread i mentioned he should have been tried outside Iraq instead of by his own...
and he shouldn't have been executed, but left to rot in a prison, so he wouldn't get any martyrdom (which he will now have in the eyes of Sunni's)
and all in all, everybody was happy and celebrating yesterday , what? a barbaric execution , even as executions go, this was a very poor one, it just shows how low civilized countries can go ( and let's not excuse the US over this one, you guys handed him over to the executioners.)