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Dermot Aherne calls for Sadam's life to be spared

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Tuesday December 12, 2006 20:25author by paul o toole Report this post to the editors

Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam.

Dermot Aherne, our forigen affairs minister, on behalf of Ireland says he is opposed to the the death penalty for Sadam Hussein. He even joined with other UN countries to express his dissapproval of hanging as a form of punishment. Why then is he so silent about the 665,000 innocent Iraqi lives taken. More than a half million killed to remove one man who ironically was taken without a single shot fired. Why can he not also stand up and condemn George W. Bush and Tony Blair on behalf of Ireland, for what is looking more like genocide than democracy.
Is it because this bauched invasion has the support and blessing of our government and therefore we cannot condemn on one hand what we support with the other?. Is it because to our shame, we opened an Embassy in Baghdad to feed his army when everyone knew what atrocities he was comitting? Is it because our hands are also bloodied because rightly or wrongly we sarcrificed our dignity for economy? Our priests called for prayer momentarily and then fell eerily silent. Bertie said that it would be ‘a hostile act’ to remove facilities to the US military at Shannon airport. It is a sad day for Ireland when a minister calls for the life of Sadam Hussein to be spared while so many innocent people died, and not even one....... done anything to try to stop them being killed, or called for any of their lives to be spared.

author by contextpublication date Tue Dec 12, 2006 21:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the images or execution of one man- the US bogeyman will take down Bush
too. all this destruction and slaughter for the death of one man.

People are rising against the obscenity ot the Bush/Blair axis of evil.
and triumphalism is not on the cards for Bush. if Saddam goes down,
Bush goes down. Aznar and Berlusconi are already gone.

That leaves Bertie ahern's support for the illegal war.

it is against the interests of the Irish government to have a crucifixion.
especially in an election year.

Ahern just skimmed the rendition flights by claiming there 'may have been one'
FF/PD supported an illegal war.
FF/PD are co-operating in globalised politics to the reduction in quality of life
of the citizens of this country.

They really should just fuck off.

author by Franpublication date Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The US invasion was illegal imperialistic and has proven to be a military and humanitarian disaster as many many warned the US it would be.
However Saddam is guilty of such horrendous crimes that the only fate he deserves is a long drop at the end of a rope.
An Irish left winger I maybe but I will cheer his death as loudly as the any neo-con.

author by MichaelY - iawmpublication date Wed Dec 13, 2006 13:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dear Fran,

Just as a matter of clarification, and as a person who grew up thinking/and believing that the Left, universally, opposed capital punishment by States - and particularly by puppet States as the Iraqi regime right now....could you, as "a left-winger" explain to us what section of the Irish left, that you seem to think that you belong to, jumps up and down asking for people to be shot or lynched?

Did you say glee? Did you really write at the end of a rope? What a beautiful world you inhabit left-wing comrade!!

And to top it all you ask for other positions to be censored - you are something else!!

author by Franpublication date Thu Dec 14, 2006 09:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

60 years ago would I have complained that the top Nazis met their end at the end of a rope? Not a bit.

author by radical jonnypublication date Thu Dec 14, 2006 15:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The minute you start summarily executing people- and make no mistake that's what this is- you might as well start rounding people up.

Of course Saddam's a ruthless dictator, and his regime was cruel and disasterous for the people. No one can deny that. But when do we stop the cycle of violence? Executing one and executing a thousand is just a question of numbers.
Execution has been, and always will be, a tool of the ruling class.

Lenin executed as many of his enemies as any czar. Was it better because he was a lefty?

Lock Saddam away if you must do something. Will one more dead Sunni help the people of Iraq?

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic- Josef Stalin

 
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