Saddam has been found guilty and sentenced to death. According to today's
Irish Independent, Europeans have "reacted with deep unease" to the sentence. What are they uneasy about? Are they afraid that the wrong man will be executed? Or is it that they think hanging is too good for Saddam and that they'd prefer a ritual disemboweling or maybe drawing and quartering? And, which Europeans are opposed to Saddam's hanging? I doubt they're Romanians or Bosnians or any of those who know what it is to live under a tyrannical regime.
"This is very far from our ethics and the political tradition of this country, no matter how cruel the crime is," said Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Far from the political tradition of Italy? Yeah, I guess, if 61 years defines "far". I wonder what Prodi thinks about the treatment
Mussolini received in April 1945?
Saddam should have been executed long ago. I don't think anything positive has come from the long, drawn-out trial.
