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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Frankly, that video doesn't do much to raise my hopes about the new government. They're hanging him in some random, small, dingy-looking building, his executioners just look like a random bunch of masked thugs, and there's no discipline in evidence in the entire scene; camera flashes keep going off, the men keep repeating religious chants, and at least one person got the whole thing on their cameraphone.
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That's the sense I got as well.
As if it was done in a back alley, chaotic and random, without legal decree, without any sense of central authority, without any sense of law or order, without any sense of progress. Instead, we get dark, creepy, hooded motherfuckers in street clothes scuttling about in the dark, chanting religious incantations.
It should have been done in front of the lights, center stage, pomp and circumstance, starched uniforms, official state ceremony, crowds of his victims' families, with members of the legitimately elected Iraqi government looking on.