[Lulu_Jane]

I don't have a particularly strong opinon about whether Saddams death is good or bad, per say, however I do strongly detest the notion of capital punishment.

Rbell, I'm interested to hear what points of the geneva convention you believe were broken by the trial. I watched most of the trial (yes I'm that nerdy sometimes) and in my view it seemed like the only people turning it into a circus were Saddams lawyers, his brother-in-law and the American "representitive," (incidentally, why the hell was he there anyway!?)

I believe that if this trial had occured in the Hague then the Iraqi people would have been further alienated from the western world that is attempting to impose itself on them, and that Saddam would have become even more of a martyr for more than just Sunni factions. This occured during the trials of various African warlords who were tried at the Hague (I'm too tired to dig up the names, but just pick any blood-diamond evil soul that ran off to live in Saudi before getting caught.)

I also believe that George Bush is doing his "cause" (yuk!) a huge disservice by piping up that he doesn't agree with how the execution occured. He got what he wanted, and should stop stirring the pot. He's already mirred in the shades of Vietnam. It can only get worse.

Also, just by the by, another bomb just went off here about an hour ago (the 10th one in 5 days.) It was about two blocks from my apartment at a protest rally in an open air marketplace. Apparently there's going to be another coup tonight.

*sigh*

Democracy? Pfft. It may not be perfect, but it sure beats the hell out of tanks and guns and bombs everywhere let me tell you. And the one thing I've learned from seeing this muck is that tanks and guns and bombs are the least effective thing to help put such a system in place - just like a tree with rotten roots.