The "president-for-life," who recently held a Potemkin election in Egypt to show that his title is more than an honorific, thinks Saddam Hussein's execution merits the m-word:
No-one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed – they turned him into a martyr, and the problems in Iraq remained.
Normally, one wouldn't demur — assuming one were pro-death penalty — against such an act of state undertaken on a religious holiday. (Least among the objections to the bloody Yom Kippur War was that it occurred in the midst of the Hebrew Day of Atonement). But offing Saddam on Eid al-Adha, the Sunni holiday that marks the end of the hajj, was a matter of tribalist revenge-taking masquerading as condign punishment. The calendar date only rubbed things in more. It also contravened Iraq's constitution, which prohibits capital killings during holy periods, and mandates the signatures of the president and two vice-presidents before such killings can occur. (These offices represent all three ethno-religious factions in Iraq and so the provision is designed as a check on exactly what transpired.) Now add to this the shouts of "Muqtada, Mudtada" just before the trapdoor opened, a hosanna which may not have riled Saddam as much as it did the Sunni minority that is daily targeted for mutilation and execution by Mahdi riffraff.
So now one is faced with the appalling fact that a still-living Middle Eastern dictator trumps the "official" word from the United States on this single point of humanity and justice. Well done indeed.
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