The incredible debate over the 'niceties' of Saddam Hussein's execution continue. Does history tell of similar sensitivities when the corpse of Benito Mussolini was placed upside down on meathooks, or when the Nazi criminals were hanged after their war crime trial?.
No debate then then of possibly offending their "followers."
So just when you thought Saddam might have been a mass murderer who possibly deserved whatever the fates had in store, along come today's new thinkers whose ideas of justice range from life imprisonment to virtual rehab.
All this, together with talk of justice rather than vengeance. And yet there are those who think that justice is in part justifiable vengeance for the victims.
For the record, Churchill had ordered an electric chair from America for Adolf Hitler, had he not topped himself.
How much talk would there have been then about "offending" the Fuhrer's followers, if, as has been intimated, the execution had been seen by a wider audience than those inthe death cell?
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