Margaret Beckett Disgusts Me

[poliphilo]

This country abolished capital punishment when I was a kid,  so why is a British foreign secretary welcoming the death sentence that's just been passed on Saddam Hussein?

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Either way you look at it, it's a loss.

1. Leave him alive, and people will use him like a banner to garner more support. Then, there's always the chance that someone would try and "rescue" him from whatever prison they put him in.

2. Kill him, and he becomes a martyr.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a lose-lose situation.

I think he should have been tried at the Hague- as Milocevic was. I imagine the Coalition powers nixed that because they didn't want their own misdeeds paraded on the international stage- as would have happened if Saddam had been granted a proper defence.