Wednesday, December 27, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

The Appeals Court in Iraq has upheld the November 5th ruling by the lower court stipulating that Saddam Hussein be executed within 30 days.
The Appeals Court is making a serious mistake.

It is a mistake because Saddam Hussein was tried and convicted for perpetrating a mass murder that took place in 1982 that killed 148 Shiite Muslims in the northern town of Dujail.
Just one incident involving one case of mass murder.
Saddam Hussein is guilty of tens of thousands more incidents of mass murder.

The only way to actually right the wrong that Saddam perpetrated on the Iraqi people is to try him for every event and enter every event into the court record and convict him of every murder.
This mass murderer must be held accountable for more than one single event.

Executing Saddam Hussein now is cathartic, but short sighted.
The present government needs to come into its own and get out from the beneath shadow of Saddam.
They must confront the evil and acknowledge all the murders.
And then Saddam Hussein should be executed.