[shrinkermd]

I am watching Krauthammer on Fox News Sunday. He is complaining that the trial was botched, Krauthammer felt "queasy" about the hanging and so forth.

As Winston Churchill has noted, "There is no good way to kill a man." Especially difficult is up front and in your face killing. Proof positive of how hard it is to kill seeing what you are killing is the common medical finding that women view a sonogram of their fetus they are much less likely to have an abortion.

This is not about abortion, however. What it is about is that seeing and being responsible for a death even symbolically is hard.

Not seeing all Saddam's victims is another part of the problem. Too long between crime and punishment is used by liberals everywhere to diminish the likelihood of punishment. Another common human experience.

All told, this man deserved to die and there never was a right time or a right way to do it that would placate everyone.

[Chuck54]

This is not about abortion, however. What it is about is that seeing and being responsible for a death even symbolically is hard.

Some wit on FR a few days ago stated the Democrats would have no problem with the hanging of Saddam if we would just refer to the hanging as a "very late term abortion".

[chiller]

Agreed, but I haven't anyone except a few whackos complaining the improprieties of Saddam's hanging. Have I missed something? Who's complaining?

The celebrations in Iraq seem to neuter those complaints, imho.

[kabar]

I am watching Krauthammer on Fox News Sunday. He is complaining that the trial was botched, Krauthammer felt "queasy" about the hanging and so forth.

I wonder how Krauthammer feels about the Nuremberg trials. Or the swift justice meted out to Ceauºescu and his wife. Or Mussolini. I think Krauthammer confuses justice with process. Everyone knew that Saddam was guilty of mass murder. We have the graves of 300,000 to prove it.

The US and the West forced the Iraqis to through the Kabuki dance of a trial, which resulted in giving Saddam and his supporters a platform for years. A number of lawyers and judges connected to the case were assassinated. Iraq would have been far better if Saddam had been summarily dispatched a few days after he was captured.