A Brain Spasm following the news of Saddam's death sentence
The planned hanging of Saddam Hussein, in my opinion, is such a farce.
Why is he (probably) going to swing? He has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing of 148 in 1982, which is still a heinous act of terrorism.
However, let us consider the greatest act of terrorism in the history of the world: The atom bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki. I can still OK the one dropped on Hiroshima, as it confirmed Japan to its knees in WW2 - it was already on its knees but hey - let's give America the benefit of the doubt here.
Nagasaki was totally unacceptable and made into lab-rats the 39,000 (according to wikipedia) people killed in the blast or died as a consequence. Who swung for that? Nobody. Why wasn’t Roosevelt brought to trail for that? Because America won the war, that’s why. I believe some Japanese generals et al swung after the war for the things they did. But not the Americans, no sirree. Justice - however unjust - is delivered by the winner of the war.
I live in a third-world country and it amuses me how the world carries on. More specifically, it shocks me what the USA does. One of the most common factors of any presidential administration since WW2 is the deployment of their armed forces because somewhere, halfway around the world, something is threatening their frail national security. This is a greater commonality than, say, Democratic or Republican presidents. So, they get on their ships and they hop in their airplanes, and go and kill another 39,000 people twice every decade or so – OK, I will settle in calling that an over-exaggeration. And suffer the same number of casualties in the process – The last couple of wars didn’t go to good for the Green Coats, I understand. The amount of their casualties makes them sound like a war-addicted, cannibal nation to me. Or they may just have the knack of electing a cannibal on a regular basis...
The point is this: Saddam was convicted for senselessly killing 148. In Nagasaki 39,000 died pointlessly. So, if one Iraqi president has to swing for 148, assuming an exchange rate of one Iraqi president to one US president, which sounds fair in my books, 263.513513... US presidents must swing for Nagasaki – discounting global inflation – I will not beat around the bush any further about that.
That makes me wonder about dictatorship. The cheers resounded all around the world when Saddam was ousted. But still the world, maybe without realising it, willingly bows down to the greatest dictator of them all every day – The USA. Will the cheers be heard the day this dictator falls, or will the rest of the world be forced to listen to the pathetic wailing of this once great nation for the injustices it so unfairly was made to suffer as we did on 9/11 or when Katrina and Rita struck?
So, on the day Saddam swings, let us hope there is another 263 nooses – the Americans had better get voting. And let’s not forget the nooses reserved for Russian presidents, compliments of Mr. Stalin. Or the number of nooses reserved for South African presidents, compliments of the Apartheid regime. The list goes on...
Why is he (probably) going to swing? He has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the killing of 148 in 1982, which is still a heinous act of terrorism.
However, let us consider the greatest act of terrorism in the history of the world: The atom bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki. I can still OK the one dropped on Hiroshima, as it confirmed Japan to its knees in WW2 - it was already on its knees but hey - let's give America the benefit of the doubt here.
Nagasaki was totally unacceptable and made into lab-rats the 39,000 (according to wikipedia) people killed in the blast or died as a consequence. Who swung for that? Nobody. Why wasn’t Roosevelt brought to trail for that? Because America won the war, that’s why. I believe some Japanese generals et al swung after the war for the things they did. But not the Americans, no sirree. Justice - however unjust - is delivered by the winner of the war.
I live in a third-world country and it amuses me how the world carries on. More specifically, it shocks me what the USA does. One of the most common factors of any presidential administration since WW2 is the deployment of their armed forces because somewhere, halfway around the world, something is threatening their frail national security. This is a greater commonality than, say, Democratic or Republican presidents. So, they get on their ships and they hop in their airplanes, and go and kill another 39,000 people twice every decade or so – OK, I will settle in calling that an over-exaggeration. And suffer the same number of casualties in the process – The last couple of wars didn’t go to good for the Green Coats, I understand. The amount of their casualties makes them sound like a war-addicted, cannibal nation to me. Or they may just have the knack of electing a cannibal on a regular basis...
The point is this: Saddam was convicted for senselessly killing 148. In Nagasaki 39,000 died pointlessly. So, if one Iraqi president has to swing for 148, assuming an exchange rate of one Iraqi president to one US president, which sounds fair in my books, 263.513513... US presidents must swing for Nagasaki – discounting global inflation – I will not beat around the bush any further about that.
That makes me wonder about dictatorship. The cheers resounded all around the world when Saddam was ousted. But still the world, maybe without realising it, willingly bows down to the greatest dictator of them all every day – The USA. Will the cheers be heard the day this dictator falls, or will the rest of the world be forced to listen to the pathetic wailing of this once great nation for the injustices it so unfairly was made to suffer as we did on 9/11 or when Katrina and Rita struck?
So, on the day Saddam swings, let us hope there is another 263 nooses – the Americans had better get voting. And let’s not forget the nooses reserved for Russian presidents, compliments of Mr. Stalin. Or the number of nooses reserved for South African presidents, compliments of the Apartheid regime. The list goes on...
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