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(((stereofect)))
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Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 6:54 AM
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The 'Butcher of Baghdad' is dead...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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Kylo
Joined: 02/16/05
Location: San Francisco
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RE: Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 1:05 PM
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An eye for an eye makes the world blind... "He was a broken man," he said. "He was afraid. You could see fear in his face."
Nothing like hearing something from someone elses' perspective to accomodate the actual reality of the situation. Bush was 'asleep' during the execution...
Typical Texas- loves to hang; didn't realize that form of execution still existed in modern time~ So much for learning any lesson from this, all it will do is embroider his existance to his people/ more less put him on a podium.
Here's a lesson I've learned in two decades on earth: Don't fight for something you don't completely understand. With a country being so large like the U.S.- there is so much room for f-ing up the truth, I'm sure there is a high probability that a lot of what was reported was assumption after assumption. It's too hard to believe any of it for me, I guess skepticism should always be kept at a healthy standpoint until there is someone honest enough to observe the reality and make a statement. (which should be our president- who was sleeping)
I hate our fucking country's failure to communicate.
Tomorrow's news: The U.S. Pacific Northwest claims itself as its own legion and joins Canada in winning the Spengler Cup~~~ Details after 11:00. 
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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Neotone
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RE: Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Monday, January 1, 2007 at 12:23 AM
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Quote:"He was a broken man," he said. "He was afraid. You could see fear in his face."
It's not a triumph that "the butcher of Baghdad" was killed, but a tragedy that he ever came to exist.
This life is a joke, and nobody's laughing.
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(((stereofect)))
Joined: 09/02/01
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RE: Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Monday, January 1, 2007 at 4:46 AM
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It may not be the best solution, but when dealing with warlords it's the only choice.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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Multi-Panel
Joined: 09/23/01
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RE: Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 5:35 AM
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nah that was pretty barbaric. best way to humiliate your enemies is to actually treat them (reasonably) well and all that. which obviously is not what the USA or Iraqi's new government is doing right now. so you're Saddam the butcher.. here's a fair process and here's your life sentence. 
Guantanamo anyone? that's so frickin' bad/satanic it's almost hilarious. 
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(((stereofect)))
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RE: Hussein executed with 'fear in his face'
Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 9:33 AM
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Multi-Panel wrote:best way to humiliate your enemies is to actually treat them (reasonably) well and all that.
I think you're confusing humiliation with mutual respect.
To me humiliation is just another way of asserting power over others, and is a common form of oppression.
I definitely agree with mutual respect. I practice it every day. I think everybody should. But in this case mutual respect was not being practiced (by Saddam or any of his minions). Saddam had been given plenty of oportunities to straighten up and fly right, but he refused. He'd used up all his credit and had to go. In a just society the rule of law must be applied. In this case the process (according to Iraqi law) was fair and the sentence, however barbaric, was justified.
You know... changing a country from a religious autocracy into a just democracy is a long, often difficult, very emotional and sometimes deadly process and is something that does not happen overnight. There are winners and there are losers. And nobody wants to be a loser. Especially those that feel it's their god given right to exert power over those who don't share their point of view.
I truely wish I could just wave a magic wand and turn our planet into the garden of eden that so many of us want. But those powers elude me and only exist, for the time being, as fantasy.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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