Although the timing is not ideal for an execution, and as Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin put it that "it is illegal to carry out executions on weekends or holidays"; but still the execution method itself was wrong and very wrong.
I would like to clarify that i think that the man deserves life imprisonment, if bnot hanging for the crimes that he and his regime had done throughout the years; however, he must have been executed by the State, not by a militia gang, that didn't obey the prusecutor's and judge's order to maintain order in the execution room and respect the man's last moments.
It may be true that his regime's executors didn't respect their victims' last moments, but this is "The New Iraq", right guys?! This is where all Iraqis are respected, right?!!
I just sit and think; if those militia guys infeltrated the most important room and moment in Iraqi justice history; how on Earth would the gov't dissolve the militias?! Maybe they would dissolve the gov't?!!!
The man was executed. The idea was (probably) right. The timing was wrong. The implementation was very wrong.
This wrong implementation made many people who actually disliked him, sympathize with him; because they know the crimes committed by these militias (similar to the crimes committed by Baathis, if not worse). So they thought that he had to eventually be executed alright, but not on this time and certainly not this way.
As for the Sunni area of Baghdad in which i live, and to which i returned for a 2-week visit, things have really changed there, where there is no gov't presence, and even US Army never drives in (although they're the only ones "allowed" by the "people" to go in, whereas access is denied for any Iraqi forces unaccompanied by US forces). Many portraits of Saddam, as well as grafitti calling him "The Hero Martyr" appear on the areas walls. There are even signs declaring support to the Al-Qaida claimed "Islamic State of Iraq"; in addition to a zillion curse signs and grafitti against the "Safavid" gov't. Security-wise, there was a dead body on our alley, tyhat stayed there for 5-6 days, before it was taken away probably by the US Army. People drove next to that body, while kids played soccer some 50 meters (yds) away!
To finish the topic of Saddam's execution i'd say that:
- It is wrong to be happy if someone is dead, because all of us would die.
- I think that it was a just punishment, probably not for the Dujail crime, but for the other bigger crimes such as the Anfal, and the wars with Iran and Kuwait that destroyed the once-strong Iraq and its people.
- I disagree with the timing. I couple of days after the Eid wouldn't have meant the end of the world.
- I completely disagree with the implementation method, because it was carried out by militias, not by the State.
- I am pissed off that the State was absent and unable to control that small room; because if it didn't, then it would never control the bigger picture and the whole country; and that is what's happening: A country lost either to terrorists, or to militias.
That's all about that.
