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Spare and pardon the Saddam video guard
posted Thursday, 4 January 2007
They lied to us
If there are lessons to be learnt from the hanging of Saddam Hussein, it is not about preventing mobile phone camera devices from having access to the proceedings but the fact that a better class of witness needs to attend the execution.
We were told that Saddam Hussein was a broken man as he approached his death and even the National Security Advisor of Iraq claimed Saddam was treated with dignity and not humiliated in any way.
Well, we all now know better, we were being lied to and the more reason why exposing the real episode is a service to democracy.
He exposed a lie
All the outcry about the guilty person wanting to destabilise the country is hogwash, if Saddam were treated with dignity such that the government was not caught is a bare-faced lie; there would be no kafuffle about this event.
We cannot in a fledgling democracy have the levers of information manipulated subjectively by the government to further their good intentions through propaganda when in fact they are doing something completely different.
Save the guard petition
It would be unjust to punish the guard for exposing a lie which has embarrassed the government, they created the mess and these are the consequences, they should face up to their mistakes rather than look for a scapegoat.
They hopefully, from now on, would learn to conduct themselves with dignity and comportment whilst being completely truthful about what they are doing.
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Thursday, 4 January 2007 5:21 pm :: http://mothanskin.blog-city.com
thank you Akin for speaking up for the guard that video taped Saddam's
execution. i feel it was by Divine Providence that it happened and that the
Bush administration and it's puppet Shite government was exposed. Truth
always prevails.
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All warfare is based on deception
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Peace eludes our time with appeasement
Monday, 17 July 2006
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A crusading psychopath is in a war near you
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Forked-tongues fuelling the Middle-Eastern fires
Saturday, 15 July 2006
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Spooky Brother Act as Spook goes to Court
Friday, 14 July 2006
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No to Balkenende III
Tuesday, 4 July 2006
There is no reason to allow a second reincarnation of the lack-lustre Dutch government. Their inability to accept responsibility and consequence shows they are both unfit for government or electoral success.
We've lost intelligence
Thursday, 15 June 2006
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Stealthily from Camp David to Camp Al-Nasr
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
I am beginning to wonder if news stories are used as decoys to announce the president is in one place whilst on his way to some troubled zone like Iraq,
No nice words for Mrs Verdonk
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Mrs Verdonk has seriously miscalculated the consequences of her decision to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Dutch citizenship. She has been called to other and her support have dived in the quest for party leadership. That is the hole that dug for herself.
Desiring a Palestinian Passover
Thursday, 11 May 2006
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Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006
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Setting democracy ablaze with gas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy
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