As I type I am watching the judgment issued against Saddam Hussein - for those who were asleep, he has been sentenced to death.
Won't share my opinion on the court, the judgment, blablabla.
What was weird though was to watch the face of a man as he is being sentenced to death. When someone is being told that his life will be ended within the next 30 days...
It took him a second to react. Remarkable emotional stability, if you want my opinion... he started shouting "Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!". The judge kept on going with reading his judgment and its sub-paragraphs and all... then he stopped.
The look on Saddam's face was quite incredible.
It was... or at least, I could read his eyes saying... "Game over? Really? So that’s it?"
Weird, weird.
Apart from the jubilatory reactions of the Americans (48 hours before the mid-term elections...) and a few outbursts of happiness here and there - Iran was just as glad as the US, by the way - there seems to be a general acceptance of the fact that he was sentenced to death. Only JL Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister, added a little parenthesis that the EU is against the death penalty.
And it's going to be even crazier in the Iraqi street after a little while.
Damn. We've already got half a million people dead since the invasion. I cannot imagine what it'll be like in 6 more months... I tell myself that there'll be an appeal and all, and hopefully the judge will be less vindicative than today's and the dog will get a life sentence, and we'll basically forget about him in 2 years.
Won't share my opinion on the court, the judgment, blablabla.
What was weird though was to watch the face of a man as he is being sentenced to death. When someone is being told that his life will be ended within the next 30 days...
It took him a second to react. Remarkable emotional stability, if you want my opinion... he started shouting "Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!". The judge kept on going with reading his judgment and its sub-paragraphs and all... then he stopped.
The look on Saddam's face was quite incredible.
It was... or at least, I could read his eyes saying... "Game over? Really? So that’s it?"
Weird, weird.
Apart from the jubilatory reactions of the Americans (48 hours before the mid-term elections...) and a few outbursts of happiness here and there - Iran was just as glad as the US, by the way - there seems to be a general acceptance of the fact that he was sentenced to death. Only JL Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister, added a little parenthesis that the EU is against the death penalty.
And it's going to be even crazier in the Iraqi street after a little while.
Damn. We've already got half a million people dead since the invasion. I cannot imagine what it'll be like in 6 more months... I tell myself that there'll be an appeal and all, and hopefully the judge will be less vindicative than today's and the dog will get a life sentence, and we'll basically forget about him in 2 years.
Otherwise....
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I would like to see him get a life sentence. Please correct me if Im' wrong but I think that any form of execution will only make him an immortal hero to his followers.
I agree.
Beyond that, my main fear is for the blood that will be shed when he is executed, since it'll surely be an issue that will create a lot of happy and of angry demonstrations which can only end up in ugly, ugly fighting...
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