The Death of Saddam: Misguided Punishment
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune sees little political or legal justification for the hanging: “Many of those who have served in Iraq, and their families, talk proudly of having rescued the Iraqi people from Saddam. His execution was the final act in that drama, and for many American service people a confirmation of their pride in helping free a people from a brutal dictator.
We don’t begrudge them their pride, but toppling Saddam for the benefit of the Iraqis was not adequate reason to send them to war, to see almost 3,000 of them die, so far, and many thousands more suffer horrendous mental and physical wounds. On our scales, Saddam’s death fails to balance even one American death in Iraq.”
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