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poliphiloI 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-01-02 07:05 pm (UTC)I watched the footage of the execution. I saw dignity in the way he carried himself.
Yes, he was a bastard. It's pretty much a precondition for being a political leader.
Is the new Iraq worse than the old Iraq? It's certainly no better. We went to war with the promise that we would create a democracy. We have let those people down dreadfully.