Bush: Saddam hanging looked like 'revenge killing'

[Arwen]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush charged that Saddam Hussein's execution resembled a sectarian "revenge killing" and has made it harder to end deadly violence in war-torn Iraq.
Bush told PBS television that the ousted dictator's hanging had "reinforced doubts" about Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and made it clear that his fledgling government "has still got some maturation to do."
The US president said he had been "pleased" with the trials of Saddam and two top aides, who have also been executed, but that Iraq's government "fumbled" in carrying out the death sentence against the toppled strongman.
"When it came to execute him, it looked like it was kind of a revenge killing. And it sent a mixed signal to the American people and the people around the world," Bush told the network.
"And it just goes to show that this is a government that has still got some maturation to do," said the US president.
Widely disseminated footage of the hanging shows the ousted dictator's captors mocking him in his final moments and shouting the name of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric -- angering Saddam's fellow minority Sunnis.
Bush said the execution "reinforced doubts" about al-Maliki's desires to quell the violence and about whether "the unity government of Iraq is a serious government."
Bush, who last week unveiled what may be a last-ditch effort to pacify Iraq, told PBS that this "makes it harder for me to make the case to the American people that this is a government that does want to unify the country."
"The Saddam execution, however, was an important moment in some ways because it closed a terrible chapter and gives the unity government a chance to move forward," he said.


What do you all think? I feel he got the punishment he desrved but should not have been mocked,what was being done to him was enough imo

[stubacca68]

true it was un-necessary to mock him, he had been tried and found guilty, he deserved it!

[Setarime]

I agree, he done the crime so deserved the punishment but the way in which it was carried out was wrong.

[TGLucario]

i agree....it should of been the chair!

[Saurgrist]

Originally Posted by Disco Racer King

i agree....it should of been the chair!

I wish it were... it's much more painful and he deserved to feel some pain for the many he killed.

I don't believe in capital punishment under any circumstances, he should have lived out his life in torment, although i agree the world is better off without him he should have been shut away somewhere without any priveleges.

[Oyabun]

Originally Posted by Disco Racer King

i agree....it should of been the chair!

Yes I agree I guess but from what I've heard he died instantly once he dropped to the floor his neck snapped instantly and choked a similar death to the electric chair where you could possibly die instantly.

But the thing about the americans they hanged him just before the muslims special day 'bayram' similar to christmas but its a muslim celebration day, I mean things would of been different if he was going to be hanged just before christmas, I'm sure it would of been postponed for another date, but oh well guess bush doesn't give a crap what day it is as long as his hanged, but show some respect for muslims.