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US president George Bush hailed the trial as "a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law" and "a major achievement for Iraq's young democracy and its constitutional government".

Unsurprising, I guess.

This is where the revolutionary and the liberal meet, I can't really support the death penalty sentence handed down to Saddam. There is no doubt that what he did for generations, was unspeakable and caused the most outrageous human suffering. There is no doubt that he was an enemy of ordinary people (Iraqi/Iranian/Kurdish alike) and that was true in any of his various guises, stooge for the Americans and then latterly, the protector of sovereign Iraq against the imperialist onslaught.

So, yeah he deserves to hurt but putting a guy to death like this, just seems cheap and life imprisonment would be far more exacting a punishment I'm sure.

I don't think there's a moral impediment that bothers me (morality is whatever society will accept), it's more that this is a show trial and no matter the indignation George II might bluster, this verdict was cynically timed to give the Republinazis a dig out in the elections ongoing. He's going to be hung, a former pawn of Imperialism, one who became expendable, in order to sate the desire for a better world that the masses constantly express without focus.

An aged Iraqi hanging on the end of the rope ain't going to make the world a better place.

This man was but an agent of the tyrant.