Amjad K Maruf
Al-Jazeerah,
Right from the invasion of Iraq, to Saddam’s capture, to his hanging – everything was pre-planned by George Bush. The non-existent WMDs were just a ruse to invade Iraq for OIL. Who would believe that Saddam Hussein – a brave man who went to the gallows without wearing a hood, embraced death without fear and with a smile – would surrender so meekly to US forces and hide in a hole as was shown by the US on the TV when he was captured?
Doubtlessly he would have fought bravely before being captured by US army. The footage shown later was clearly a film shot by the US authorities to show the world how coward Saddam Hussein was. But Saddam’s bravery during his execution clearly exposed the US. Then it was the time to install a puppet government and a sham democracy in Iraq. Though Saddam Hussein was touted to be guilty of killing his own men, he should have been given a fair trial before his execution.
The fair trial by the puppet Iraqi Government was nothing but a sham. Everyone knows who held the strings of the puppet government, who put the noose around Saddam’s neck and who pulled the lever. It was clear that Bush was so afraid of a living and captured Saddam that he wanted him to be executed as soon as possible. According to the law, Saddam could not be executed once he attains 70 years of age, which was to be in April this year.
So the sham trial was expedited to get rid of Saddam as soon as possible. And what a timing of the execution – on Eid’s eve. To incite the Muslim communities and widen the rift between Shias and Sunnis further. The Bush Government did not stop at that. The execution was allowed to get filmed on the cell phone and was distributed to the media for the world to see it live.
How could anyone use a cell phone in such a place without the knowledge of the security?
People are not fools as Bush would like to believe. Definitely, the US could not do it officially hence the cell phone drama.
Even if the footage was leaked to the Internet where was the need for the media to show it on television news channels?
Except for one news channel, all the news channels in India repeatedly showed the footage, 24X7?
Shouldn’t they have avoided showing the footage unless their intention was to increase their TRPs and hurt people’s sentiments?
This should not have happened in a civilized society. It will be anarchy now in Iraq with Shi'is and Sunnis killing each other. In no time there would be little Iraqis left and it is then that US would takeover Iraq and the oil reserves. And what is the World doing. Just watching the tamasha. Yeah, tamasha it was, all along.
Many people are criticizing the various political parties and the Muslim community who had voiced their protest against the execution. Yes, the execution was an internal matter of Iraq but these people should know that Saddam was a friend of India and had always supported India. This is the reason why everyone – right from Shivsena, BJP & other political parties to the common man irrespective of their religion - supported Saddam and felt angry on his execution.
Finally, now that Saddam has been punished for killing innocent people how about punishing Bush in the same manner. After all he is responsible for killing not only thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians but also his own people who are unnecessarily being forced to give up their lives so that Bush could plunder Iraq.
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