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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
He was killed by hanging. Reminiscant of the old west. Goes along with the cowboy persona of the US president.
Yes, he did bad things. I am not happy that he was killed. Especially in a manner that is so barbaric. I doubt his death will have any great effect on the people of Iraq.
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But apparently it is having a great effect on people elsewhere in the middle east.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/wo...ld&oref=slogin
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In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of a convicted dictator, has undergone a resurgence of admiration and awe.
On the streets, in newspapers and over the Internet, Mr. Hussein has emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him.
“No one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed,” President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt remarked in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot published Friday and distributed by the official Egyptian news agency. “They turned him into a martyr.”
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Downward spirals suck.
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