Bush Remarks on the Execution of Saddam

AP Wire ^ | Dec 30, 2006

[jdm]

Statement of President Bush on the death by hanging of Saddam Hussein, as provided by the White House:

Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial — the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.

Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule. It is a testament to the Iraqi people's resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial. This would not have been possible without the Iraqi people's determination to create a society governed by the rule of law.

Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops. Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the War on Terror.

We are reminded today of how far the Iraqi people have come since the end of Saddam Hussein's rule and that the progress they have made would not have been possible without the continued service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.

Many difficult choices and further sacrifices lie ahead. Yet the safety and security of the American people require that we not relent in ensuring that Iraq's young democracy continues to progress.

[Albion Wilde]

I wonder if the mandated respectful treatment of him by his guards wore him down mentally. I would like to think so. I would like to think that it tortured him, not to be able to break the character and training of the American servicemembers who interacted with him every day.

You're right, maica, and let's not forget the many Christian prayers for him from around the world for the past many years, prayers for his surrender to Christ and his complete awakening to Christ's gospel of love and truth -- instead of the sword.

[Albion Wilde]

Give it a rest. You are behaving like a provocateur. Your emotional, rhetoric-laden pronunciamentoes lack depth. You're in the wrong venue for shallow leftie tirades. Go away.

[IsraelBeach]

Why go away? Is there a better forum on the Net where conservatives can debate conservatives? I trust you heard the Washington Post tape of President Ford stating that he would never had gone to war with Iraq. Yeah, I guess not all Republicans are on the same page all the time. ;>