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Most people I encounter with the mindset of Franki are usually either:

a) someone who has only a basic grasp on the realities of this war and rely on TV news media for their information.

b) hardcore Bush haters who choose to ingore facts when presented because it interferes with their agenda driven perspective.

With the first example you can try to enilghten them with factual accounts of what the TV news media fails to report but Franki sounds more like the later example and for them, reality of the situation is a lost cause.

I echo Ms. Rader's missive of 5 Jan "Alone in Sadness." I, too, felt no better as a human being nor as an American over the execution of Saddam Hussein execution. Worse tyrants have been forced into exile. As a Vietnam war vet I find responder Mascari's macho bravado a disgusting reflection of that back lot arrogant hayseed we call president.

The execution of Saddam was a travesty, not because he was a swell guy, nor becuase he was innocent of crimes, but because he was not given a fair or comprehensive trial that would have helped the Iraqi people come to terms with their history under his reign. How telling that the US orchestrated the whole thing, including the charges that would be brought against him. Anything to avoid any evidence being brought out at trial about US and European support and assistance in Saddam's crimes against civilians, including hte gassing of Iranians (in which the US is implicated).

Saddam was charged and executed by the people of Iraq. Good riddance to bad rubbish. If had my druthers, he would have been turned over to the family members of the victims he tortured, raped and killed. They have an age old punnishment in that part of the world....stoning. Hanging him was the equivalent of mercy from the acting government. He deserved no mercy.

Mr. Mascari, since she didn't say anything about his victims and she showed compassion even for a nasty tyrant, the rational thing to assume is that she is a tender-hearted person that sees all human suffering and all violence as regrettable.

You, however, chose to accuse her (in the absence of any evidence) of favoring the tyrant.
If I tell you that I like coke, it doesn’t mean that I don’t like pepsi, and just because she didn’t tell you what she feels about the victims doesn’t mean she doesn’t feel for them.

You are free to tell us all how much you despised Saddam, but I personally think that you just pulled off a mugging on a woman who did you no wrong.

Tell me how that squares with your manly ethics.
Aren’t you supposed to protect her rather than attack her?

So Ann, your view of jurisprudence is that if you dislike the perp, it's ok to throw away the rule book and sink into barbarism?

Funny, the "old ways" included beating women, refusing them any ownership, and preventing them for having education or employment, I take it you are down with that?

Evidently the money and effort spent on your education did not leave much of a lasting impression.

Shame on you.

Ms. Rader and Masaccio, please get on your meds and keep them with you always!

Too bad Sadam was executed for "only" the killing of hundereds. If the current Iraq government really wanted to show the world what type of tyrannt he was, they would have also tried him for gassing the Kurds, starting the Iran-Iraq War, the invasion of Kuwait, and the reprisals against those who rose up against him at the end of the Persian War in 89. But they managed to rush his execution, conduct probably the most unprofesional execution ever and even let videos of it leak, which has only served to make some sort of perverse matayr out of him. Well what can you do, some people still think Hilter was a great guy, perhaps if they tried Sadam for all that he did, less people would respect him.

Terry, I think the point Ms Rader and Masaccio were trying to make is that there are too many alpha-male jerk-offs running amoke with fake barbed-wire tattoos on their "muscles," and watching too much big-time wrestling and cop shows. Since we are rapidly loosing our moral compass and have engrained the hate of the world community, probably the only safe place you can vacation in is Texas.

Your opinion holds no more weight than mine or any others. Shame on you for thinking only your opinions matter. He got off esier than he deserved.
Your insult on my education tells me alot about you . But you need to be told...you are wrong ...totally.

Somehow I mess up that post....put in Loci in the wrong spot. Oh well...stuff happens.

Ann, yes my opinion holds no more weight than yours, and how fortunate you are that this is so.

I don’t think you understand or appreciate just how many lives and centuries of hard fighting, sacrifice, and bloodletting it has taken to reach a point that a woman can stand up and claim without fear of contradiction – let alone reprisal, to have an equal right to be heard.

And yet here you are, eager to dump all that sacrifice and toil and hard-won rights, just for the sake of a little retribution.
It has taken millennia to have the rules of jurisprudence across much of the planet that we now have, and you are willing to overturn that and return to barbarism in the case of Saddam.

This is why I say your education has obviously failed to take any root in you, since justice as fairness is a consistent theme in all western education and society.

Perhaps I should put it in a vein that you can understand: by reverting to barbarism whenever it suits you, you spit in the faces of the disciples and rub dirt in the wounds of the Christ, for justice and fairness was central to the message they gave you.

Oh puleez!!! This was not a trial of an American....it was a trial conducted in Iraq by Iraqis. They have their own laws and ways. They did what they felt was the right thing. I just agreed with their decision and thought they showed mercy to the mercyless.
Don't be a dipwad! Or Bring religion into our debate. But since you did....Did not god send retribution (through mens armies) to who he thought were deserving of punnishment? Sure he did. Thou shall not kill translated to original text mean Thou shalt not murder. Saddam was not murdered. He was judged by his people a put to death for his actions. people liuke you would give him a cell at the cost of everyone for his lifetime....I wouldn't waste a nickle on keeping such human waste alive. Good for the Iraqis...they did the right thing and you have nothing to say about it.

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