It’s curtains for Saddam.
Exuding moral superiority, the EU pleads for mercy for him:
The European Union urged Iraq on Sunday not to carry out the death sentence passed on Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein after his conviction for crimes against humanity.”The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either,” Finland, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, said in a statement.
No matter how terrible a crime you have committed against how many, the Enlightened body that represents Europe forgives you and pleads for your life. Likewise, Amnesty International.
Why?
How will Saddam’s grotesque indecencies and perversions, which went unchecked for decades, be punished? If even “crimes against humanity,” which meet an internationally agreed upon standard to be called such, do not warrant the death penalty, what is the moral yardstick by which we contain, judge, and punish criminals (understood to be such by the common decency that binds us all as human beings)?
Just asking.
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