by Walter Onubogu

Created on: April 21, 2008

I am not surprised that Saddam got executed. Obviously this was part of Washington's game plan to showcase the Iraqi leader's death as bringing him as Georg Bush loved to claim " to justice for his crimes against humanity and the Iraqi people".

Let us be clear Saddam's execution was nothing near bringing a criminal self serving tyrant "to justice". In fact it was a complete travesty of justice, because the USA ONLY forcibly removed a former puppet. The Iraqi people were just the bystanders - if not attendees in this unfolding dramatic showdown.If any real justice was to be served, it should have also have entailed putting the Reagan administrations ( which came to office in 1981) along side Saddam on trial for actually installing and fully supporting the tyrant and his brutal and dictatorial regime (which existed between 1979 - March 2003 : mind you Saddam pulled the strings from behind the scenes in Iraq since 1972 actually).

Without overt and covert American support that is for sure, Saddam's Iraq would never have been in a position to launch the atrocious and long war against clerical - revolutionary Iran or commit the horrific atrocities against Kurds of Northern Iraq- Massacre of Halabja 1988 and get away with it. Only when Saddam reared his ugly head and got ideas of his own, did America think " enough is enough" and removed him. So it is all very well to think Saddam's death cleared the slate, but in reality it didn't.

In fact one of the reasons why the Sunni insurgency still continues unabated until today is because, the Sunni minority (now ousted and humiliated by Saddam's death), religious extremists as well as disgruntled Baathists have made and found common cause against the Americans.

Overall I think Saddam deserved to be punished given his crimes against Iraqis and Iranians ( he used mustard gas in the war against them 1980 - 1988, they never countered with anything like that).It shouldn't have been show staged and remote controlled. I think the best would have been to let Saddam taste some of his medicine first hand, but with one qualification. Without feeling too vengeful, I think it would have been quite admissible in this instance to give Saddam back then " life imprisonment". In his prison cell keeping the lights on 24/7, while also keeping the TV running with programs about democracy and freedom 24/7, would have driven him to commit suicide automatically. That is what he deserved a taste of his own medicine, not the primitive execution and taunting

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