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Published Date: 17 January 2007
GEORGE BUSH has said the chaotic execution of Saddam Hussein looked like "kind of a revenge killing" and showed that the Iraqi government "has still got some maturation to do".
In his toughest assessment yet of the row over the Iraqi leader's execution, Mr Bush criticised the circumstances of Saddam's hanging and the execution of two top aides, including Saddam's half brother.

"I was disappointed and felt like they fumbled - particularly the Saddam Hussein execution," the President said.

Mr Bush said he had expressed disappointment to Iraq's prime minister Nouri Maliki about the way Saddam's execution was handled.

"The message is that it's a confusing message," the president said. "It basically says to people . . . you conducted a trial and gave Saddam justice that he didn't give to others. But then, when it came to executing him, it looked like it was kind of a revenge killing."



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  • Last Updated: 17 January 2007 10:13 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Iraq , Saddam Hussein
 
1

bill, england,

17/01/2007 13:58:31

It was certainly a revenge killing; Dubya getting revenge for Daddy's humiliation.

With of course the added bonus of billions of dallars of loot for the Necon gang.

2

James Donald,

Edinburgh 17/01/2007 17:31:39

Is there no end to this man's hypocracy?

3

Peru,

Sydney, Australia 17/01/2007 21:30:21

Just finished reading 'State of Denial' by Bob Woodward. It is an amazing exposure of the lack of understanding and depth in decision making resulting in incompetence within the US presidency and administration.
The presidency had full control of the situation in Iraq and to blame the Iraqi government for the mishandling of the executions is like a teacher telling his student that he should have known the answers before the lecture was delivered.
Recent series of events,and the handling of issues within the US contradicts their claim to be a democracy and champions of liberty and freedom.
Have we forgotten already, with all the spin, that no WMDs were found ???

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Mark in NYC,

New York City 17/01/2007 22:13:16

This comes from a man who presided over execution after execution in the death-penalty-happy state of Texas and who once mocked a female prisoner whose death order he'd signed.

The man knows absolutely no shame.

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busybee,

USA 17/01/2007 22:24:23

#3-- THERE WERE WMD that were found! The liberals didn't give it much air time, but there were. But people who are looking to cut Pres Bush down don't actually care about the REAL facts I guess.

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Lynne,

USA 17/01/2007 23:20:33

busybee.. I agree..but if you follow these posts you see hatred for the USA, hatred for Israel, hatred for Jews, and hatred for Bush and Blair...all by pseudointellectuals, who believe they are armchair generals, and now international attorneys!!

Even if there were pictures of all this, they would still deny it, and the USA would be wrong.
They think they are debating, but they all they are doing is just passing along their misinformation as fact.

If you prove them wrong they stoop to name calling and insults..so I have one thing to say...Good luck!!!

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Karen,

Scotland 18/01/2007 00:48:17

Lynne

First of all hello there:) I dont hate American people or any people for that matter. However I do think Bush is a total hypocrite as I think Tony Blair also is.

Bush has overseen hundreds of executions and is he saying now that his are justice but Iraqs are revenge.?? LOL

Pot, Kettle and black.

while i dont agree with what they did in Iraq at least it was honest and public. You know what I mean I know.

Blair is no better. Standing there saying hey I am anti DP but not saying a word to stop the executions and both him and Bush could have. They would never have gone ahead otherwise.

The American people know whats going on as we do here in UK and I am sure other nations do too.

Will they ever learn??

www.torley.org

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Lynne,

USA 18/01/2007 01:38:18

Karen..Hello..the DP has its place in society evidently..If it were unconstitutional here in the US, the Supreme Court would do away with it..instead it is left up to the individual states. Who knows, maybe eventually it will be banned everywhere. I think though that Bush was saying, it was handled terribly (and it was)..on all 3 hangings.
I live in a state..Florida, that has the DP..and now all of them are on hold because this state gives lethal injections, and unfortunately some people think that that is inhumane!! To me it is far better than the electric chair that was used before, and setting people on fire...believe it or not!!
I'm not for either one..although lethal injection makes more sense to me..
But, if people sat back and thought about it, leaving these people to languish in jail is not reasonable either. It leaves open the possiblility of corruption of guards (as 3 prisoners have already escaped).. and the possiblility of taking hostages and trying to use those prisoners for an exchange.
My experience at readings these posts, are people who write the most vile things about the USA and Jews, and Israel. The terrorists are in the right, Israel is condemned for defending itself, and every American is a lunatic with an agenda. There are some on here who have set themselves up as judge, jury, and punisher.
It seems to me, that the country that has lost the most in a war is considered the winner, and the defending country is the bad guy.
I do not know who you are, but I was talking about the people whose postings I have read.. and just wait..after this is posted, they will come out in full force.
He (Bush) has never said that justice is his revenge . From the very beginning, (9.11) he has said that all moslems are not islamofacists. That we should have repect for the religion..but that we have to fight terror
not to have this happen to us again. I agree with that. I also agree that it is better if we fight th

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James Donald,

Midlothian 18/01/2007 08:00:08

#6. Lynne -
"believe they are armchair generals, and now international attorneys"
"They think they are debating, but they all they are doing is just passing along their misinformation as fact"
"If you prove them wrong they stoop to name calling and insults"
With comments like these, I thought for a minute I was reading your CV. Your hypocracy is truely breathtaking as is your arrogance.
#8. Lynne - Americans have always tried to fight their wars on other people lands and as a result the American people in the US have little experience of war and terrorism until recently (Irish Republican terrorist found the US a rich source of funds from naive Americans who beleived they were funding Irish freedom fighters). If you Yankees truely wanted to fight terrorism, you would have left Iraq alone (at least for the time being) and focused on Afghanistan and other areas where Islamic terrorists flourished (Somalia for example). Instead your Army is bogged down in Iraq, with more troops there than the entire British Army achieving not much aside from more death and radicalisation in a country once secular. Meanwhile in Afghanistan, US troops are pitifully few and ofter outnumbered by the Taliban forces facing them. Little wonder then that many here (and I suspect in the US) consider your President, (Commander in Chief, boss, Fuhrer...whatever you call him) inept.

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Lynne,

USA 18/01/2007 13:47:20

#9..All you do is repeat nonsense.. We are not outnumbered in Afghanistan. More troops will probably be sent for the RISE of attacks expected in the spring and summer. We are not outnumbered.
More misinformation from another armchair general. US troops number more than half the amount of foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Why don't you check before you write such drivel...a little arrogant of you I think.

11

Chuckster,

18/01/2007 16:53:54

#9 LOL You called him a hypocrite and arrogant. Looks like you proved his point.

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James Donald,

Edinburgh 18/01/2007 22:06:06

#10. Lynne - "nonsense" and " drivel" to an armchair Granny Goebbels perhaps but that comes as no surprise.
I have 26 years of military experience and currently have 2 friends serving in Afghanistan, one in the Royal Marines in daily contact with the enemy so I think that gives me the edge over you on this one "Schwartzkopf".
American units (as well as British units) often find themselves outnumbered in firefights in Afghanistan as the Taliban can chose which outposts to attack and when and have a better local knowledge in many cases. Rather than send thousand of more troops to Iraq, which is unlikely to have any lasting impact, they could be better employed in Afghanistan taking the fight to the Taliban rather than wait until things might hot up. The Chief knows best though.....

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