HE GOT JUSTICE DENIED BY HIM
The Sun
George Pascoe-Watson
Political Editor
Humiliating: The famous photo of Saddam in his underwear - taken by a Sun photographer - whilst washing in jail
Justice must not only be done. It must be seen to be done.
Saddam's death sentence was delivered by an Iraqi judge, sitting in an Iraqi court under the legal framework of a democratically elected Iraqi government.
None of these things would have happened under Saddam's barbaric rule.
But thanks to the Iraq War, millions of ordinary Iraqis have at least a hope of justice and freedon, albeit a long way off.
Yet how quckly the liberal wing of the West forgets the brutal reality of Saddam's crimes against humanity.
Women repeatedly raped and men fed alive to dogs on the whim of the Butcher of Baghdad. Tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands murdered in cold blood on the orders of the dictator.
No one should harbour any sympathy for his plight.
Don't kid yourself that he even once pondered about the violence he brought to other human beings. Saddam planend to rule the Middle East by force - take on the world armed with weapons of mass destruction.
No wonder millions of Shi'ites were dancing in the streets at the news of yesterday's verdict.
The whole world needs a sharp reminder that Britain and America will not bow to the will of mad despots any longer.
They will be stopped from committing genocide and making the world a dangerous place.
Those who question the power of the court or the integrity of the trial have a cheek.
I don't remember them taking to the streets to defend the poor Iraqis being slaughtered by their own leader.
The death sentence may seem hideous to many of us in 2006.
But to many cultures around the globe it will symbolise freedom from the chains of a monster. Saddam Hussein lived by the sword and deserves all that's coming to him.
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THE SUN SAYS
A criminal's end
SPARE us the liberal hand-wringing over Saddam Hussein.
The "unfairness" of his trial and the "barbarity" of his death sentence.
There can be no more fitting end than a hangman’s noose for this gangster-turned-President.
His life has been one of unremitting evil. A murderer at 12 who, emboldened by power, evolved grotesquely into a genocidal butcher.
The death penalty may no longer be the British way. But it
IS Iraqi justice — and we have given them the power to dispense it.
And let’s hear no more about Saddam having greater influence as a dead martyr than a live prisoner. Locked up, he would be a potent figurehead for Iraq’s insurgents.
Besides, his credentials as a martyr are laughable to Muslims.
There he stood yesterday, clutching the Koran as he defied “the agents” of the Christian West. But this is a man who ignored Islam throughout his rule and personally ordered the massacre of countless Muslims.
Iran says execution is the “minimum” Saddam deserves.
That’s the most sensible utterance from those parts in years.
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