Glum

[poliphilo]

I stayed up till midnight- just. Ailz and I stood at the bedroom window and watched fireworks bristle along the skyline.

I got a call from Bolton in the wee, small hours. Happy, shining people wishing me a happy new Year. The lads had gone back to Sara's house and were partying with her parents. 

I'm not a party person.

I keep coming back to Saddam. There's a jolly picture in the press this morning showing him with his neck broke. His executioners (more like a Shia lynch mob actually) jeered him and loosed the trap door while he was still saying his prayers. All through the process he showed courage and dignity. The new Iraq makes the old Iraq (Saddam's Iraq) look good.

I'm so ashamed of what America and Britain have done.

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I'm in total agreement with you. Why on earth would you have to jeer a dying man who is saying his prayers? Who the hell was in charge and if this was a legal proceeding, those doing the jeering should be demoted, punished, whatever. I'm just disgusted by this rush to execute as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The execution was presumably arranged by the Iraqi "government" (whose writ, the Guardian says, barely runs beyond the Green Zone.) The trial should have taken place in the Hague, but if if that had happened the complicity of western governments in Saddam's crimes might have been given a thorough airing and that would never have done, would it?

[methodius.livejournal.com]

Which makes one wonder about Milosevich's convenient death, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I believe our leaders are totally Machiavellian- so, yes, anything is possible.