Cartoon by Cairo Freeze
Rambling Hal from Jordan:
I hope he is sentenced to death again and again and again, and I hope, when they carry it out, he is made to suffer like the cockroach he is. How do I kill the cockroaches I come across, unfortunately, every now and then? First, I spray them with poison. Again and again and again. I spray them endlessly as they twitch and convulse. Then I step on them, hard. And I crush my foot into the ground, over and over again, to make sure they are as flattened and as dead as possible.
EMoodz from Bahrain: Is anyone else disturbed by this? If anything, he should have been turned over to an international court. The court he was tried under is a sham. It’s a U.S. puppet. This verdict and sentence is the result of George Bush’s 15 year long wet dream.
Batir Wardam from Jordan: محاكمة صدام تحولت في معظم مجرياتها إلى مسرحية هزلية وأحيانا محزنة، فلم تكن تتوفر فيها أدنى درجات العدالة والمصداقية، وبالرغم من أن غالبية الشعب العراقي الذين تعرضوا للقمع والذبح وضياع أجيال كثيرة في الحروب العبثية سيجدون أن الحكم بالإعدام على صدام كان عادلا فإن التاريخ سوف يبقى يذكر أن الإجراءات لم تكن عادلة.للأسف ستكون الأيام القادمة مليئة بحملات تأييد ودعم لدكتاتور روع آلاف الناس في العراق، وسيستمر احتلال العراق وقتل مواطنيه والصراع الطائفي والعنف الانتقامي من التنظيمات البعثية، وفي النهاية سوف يدفع المواطن العراقي وحده الثمن. المواطن العراقي العادي هو الذي دفع ثمن سكوت العالم العربي على جرائم صدام وهو الذي يدفع الآن ثمن الاحتلال الأميركي ووحشية التنظيمات الطائفية، والعراق الذي هو أهم مليون مرة من صدام حسين معرض هو الآخر للإعدام فهل يمكن لأحد أن ينق
Healing Iraq from Iraq: So the tyrant will be hanged. A moment that Iraqis awaited for years, but now that it’s here, it seems to be tasteless. Not that it will fail to bring a much-deserved sense of justice to the families of his victims, but because of the unprofessional and highly politicised manner with which it was handled.
The exiles who returned to Iraq after the war and proclaimed themselves as victors and new rulers also came with a strong desire for revenge. Starting from the disbanding of the Iraqi army, de-Ba’athification, and a long series of developments, ending with Maliki’s pressure on the U.S. to lift the siege on Sadr City, the U.S. has, knowingly or unknowingly, catered to that revenge.
The death sentence against Saddam Sunday - even though no one denies that Saddam deserves the most gruesome death - is the latest chapter in that series.
Subzero Blue from Tunisia: Anyway, personally, I think it was very clear from the beginning that a death sentence awaited Saddam at the end of the line, and that this eleven month trial was more or less an act. Saddam is a criminal, and many innocent lives were lost at his orders, so he deserves whatever he gets, but let’s not forget that much more innocent Iraqi people died because of George W. Bush’s orders than his.
Iraq the Model from Iraq: The Day of Justice. Now, Saddam is officially going down the toilet!
Sandmonkey from Egypt: Saddam is finally sentenced to death, alongside his brother and the head of the revolutionary court. Wohooooooooooooooo……… Now excuse me while I do my little “Saddam is going to die” dance.
The Sundanese Thinker from Sudan: The bastard will get what he deserved. YES!! BUT… by hanging ONLY! This guy at minimum deserves death by shooting squad. They should skin him alive, chop his genitals into pieces, spill acid on him, hang him by his legs, whip him a million times and finally stick a bullet into his head. Okay that’s harsh. Is it? Bleh whatever but you get the idea.
Raed in the Middle: At the same time that millions of Iraqis were and are still being killed, injured, and displaced because of the U.S. interventions, at the same time that the Iraqi social fabric is being destroyed and turned into fragments, at the same time that Iraq as a state is being “wiped off the map” and cut apart, at the same time that everyday in Iraq is worse than the day before, and at the same time that tens of thousand of U.S. solders are being killed, injured, and traumatized for the rest of their lives and trillions of the U.S. taxpayers money wasted, the one and only victory that the bush administration can claim is hanging the former dictator. This will be yet another favor Saddam will be doing to the U.S. foreign policy, yet another reason given to the bush administration to justify more illegal interventions, mass murder and destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was one of the major disasters in the region.
