Hang ‘em high
So it appears that time really is running out for Saddam Hussein. His belongings are to be collected – he is likely to be hung soon. No-one will know until after it has been done – expect to see the image of another dead arab on the television, final incontrovertible proof, just like when we all had to see the corpse of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu. It seems we need to see a body to be satisfied, or at least someone thinks we do.
And yet George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Tony Blair are free, no closer to seeing the dock than ever. Hussein is being hung for his role in the deaths of 148 Shias in the 1980s. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Blair and others are responsible now for more deaths than 9/11 and Hussein combined, hundreds of thousands of people. Civilians and children. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the whole war stinks of corruption and hypocrisy, Iraq now has a civil war to add to a shattered infrastructure, the whole world is afraid of Al Qaeda, and they never even caught Osama Bin Laden.
I would suggest that if these people never end up on trial for what they have done, there is something very wrong with this world – but there already is something very wrong, or this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
