Past

Judgment Day

Saddam is gone.

(Unless you subscribe to an X-Files style last minute switch, and he really is on an island somewhere planning to live out his US funded retirement)

After watching the various conversations in the Bloggo-sphere its evident a wide range of opinions are well represented. Some say capital punishment is wrong in all cases. Some say its wrong to “celebrate” the death (or any death). Some say he had it coming. Some say he should have been tried in an International court. Some say he should have been held to account by his own people, yet the court that did hold him to account was a puppet court of the US. Some say a hundred other things in a hundred different styles. Some say it was all fair and square.

Some say he has now met his maker and let God sort it out.

He was judged by his peers, his friends, his enemies, his family, his God – himself. Judged by as many different methods as there are people doing the judging by whatever formulae happens to be in fashion by the people and at the place and time.

Rather unreliable method of measure if you ask me. Yet wars are fought over it, and more often than not in the name of God.

By carefully watching BBC CNN FOX DRUDGE etc etc he was not turned over to local Iraqi authorities, he WAS turned over to local Iraqi authorities, he was buried in Tikrit, he WAS NOT buried in Tikrit, he was a tyrant who deserved what he got, he was a puppet of the US and the true villains were let off scott free, and numerous other versions of the story. I’m sure the history books will sort it out.