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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: 2007-01-15 08:18 pm (UTC)One reads of public executions in the 18th century in which the victim was aware of him/herself as a performer and did his/her best to give the public a good show.
And when Joseph Addison, the essayist, was on his deathbed he sent out invitations to his friends to come and "see how a christian can die".