{"id":1031,"date":"2006-12-30T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-12-04T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T22:53:48","slug":"1027-of-turning-a-dictator-into-a-martyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"[1027] Of turning a dictator into a martyr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered sources according to CNN on TV have reported that Saddam Hussein has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/12\/29\/hussein\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">executed by hanging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) &#8212; Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S.-backed Al-Hurra television reported.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Arabiya reported that Barzan Hassan, Hussein&#8217;s half-brother, and Awad Bandar, former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged after Hussein. All three were convicted of killings in the Iraqi town of Dujail nearly 25 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The odd thing about the execution is that, it turns a tyrant into a hero.<\/p>\n<p>A lesson: without a fair trial, or at the very least the perception of a fair trial, any judgment passed by a court is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I personally believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=949\">mercy would have been a better example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And how does the execution affect the situation in Iraq?<\/p>\n<p>Given the circumstances, I doubt it is for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered sources according to CNN on TV have reported that Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) &#8212; Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets. Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S.-backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[194,1240,211],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics-government","tag-iraq","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}