There was a lot of negative reaction among Iraqi bloggers to the execution of Saddam Hussein.
Neurotic Iraqi wife, who works in Baghdad's Green Zone, watched the raw video from the internet and found the thugs in charge now are no better than Saddam and his gang.
The amateur unedited video that trashed the websites left right and center, sent more hatred towards the current govt and those who chanted the ugly words of Muqtada, than the hate I had for Saddam. Forget Im Iraqi for a second, and tell me, did what you see in that video satisfy you? Did that video show you the democratic side of the Iraqi Government? Did this government adhere to the International Standards of execution? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE, WHY WERE THEY THERE?
Youre gonna come back to me and tell me, Saddam never adhered to International standards with all these mass graves. Yes I agree, but look what this proves to you. A nation that has finished from one dictator and handed over to a worse one. The daily killings and massacres, the torture and the kidnappings. No they are not better than Saddam, they are his clones.
Sooni watched the internet video, and saw a good thing turn bad.
The procedure went normal until they put the rope around his neck and one of the attendants started to shout "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada" another one shouted "to hell" others said many other things that I couldn’t recognize, there was a weak voice in the background saying "please don’t" trying to make those people stop of saying wrong things. The scene was a real shame and lacks any kind of professionalism, you can't even feel that he was hang in a state respect the law or know anything about it!
Just like always, to make one step forward we end with three steps backward! Showing Saddam's execution like a Shiite revenge will only deepen the gap we have now. I know the Iraqi government is weak and have a lot of troubles but I couldn’t imagine that I would hear Muqtada's name in the execution room.
Aunt Najma, of Mosul, was outraged that his execution took place on the first day of Eid.
At about 6 AM, I got an SMS from the US telling me that "Saddam has just been executed", I was very sleepy, could barely think, read it once, then twice, then WHAT!!?
Why now? Why first day of Eid? Why so early? Why no notice?
Riverbend called it a lynching.
One of the most advanced countries in the world did not help to reconstruct Iraq, they didn't even help produce a decent constitution. They did, however, contribute nicely to a kangaroo court and a lynching. A lynching shall go down in history as America's biggest accomplishment in Iraq. So who's next? Who hangs for the hundreds of thousands who've died as a direct result of this war and occupation? Bush? Blair? Maliki? Jaffari? Allawi? Chalabi?
2006 has definitely been representative of Maliki and his government- killings like never before and a lynching to end it properly. Death and destruction everywhere. I'm so tired of all of this…
The Mesopotamian hasn't posted since the execution, but he offered his thoughts a couple of days before.
Personally I have mixed feelings about this execution. To start with, if the punishment for murder is to be death, according to the Law in many lands, including that of the U.S.A., and in accordance with the writ of the Great religions; then Saddam deserves at least a million or so executions.
Hammorabi saw it as the end of an era in which Saddam was the killer of Iraqis and the beginning of another in which the U.S. has been responsible for so many Iraqi deaths.
The end of Saddam was not an easy one and it certainly represents the end of era not only for Iraq but for many other people among his victims.
The history will say a lot about Saddam's era in Iraq and will also say a lot about those who destroyed and killed the Iraqis starting from the war with Iran from 1979 – 1988 then the war of Kuwait followed by the war of the sanction which killed 1 million Iraqis and then the last war and its subsequences. The history will judge all the killers and there will be no mercy for the killers.
Iraqi Pundit, no fan of Saddam Hussein, was quite harsh in his judgment of the Maliki government for the way the execution was carried out.
I would never have thought it possible that by executing a ruthless mass murderer, Iraq would find a way to disgrace itself. Saddam deserved to hang, yet thanks to the breathtaking stupidity of Nouri Al Maliki's government, not only have Iraqis been further divided by the hanging, they have been diminished by it.
The cellphone footage of Saddam Hussein's hanging reveals that Iraq's government was content to let the execution become a circus. For example, it features a chant of "Moktada! Moktada! Moktada!" as the dictator is being led to the gallows. Who allowed the miserable, ignorant thugs who follow Moktada Al Sadr to participate in the execution? Was Al Maliki's government afraid that the execution might be a solemn event? Was it acceptable to smear the memories of Saddam's hundreds of thousands of victims by the partisan chanting of the name of a demonstrable half-wit who is currently murdering his fellow Iraqis?
Iraq the Model seemed to be the lone optimistic voice.
He deserved to die—our people are still suffering from his crimes till this moment, maybe not in person anymore but through the murderous terrorist machine he built and expanded over years; his orphans are still murdering our people in cold blood trying to deny us the right to build a model of life away from the culture of death the dictator created.
Executing Saddam is an execution to a dark era in Iraq's history and it's a message to all those who followed his ways that there is no turning back; yes, the people will never kneel to a tyrant again and will never give up.
The future is in the hands of the people and they will choose their way no matter how big the sacrifice is.
We have suffered too much for too long and we deserve a better life and that we will keep pursuing.
I'd like to be as optimistic as Iraq the Model's Mohammed, but the Maliki goverenment hasn't done much to inspire confidence. The decision to execute Saddam on the first day of Eid may indicate Maliki's unwillingness rather than his inability of to rein in the death squads.
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