Cowboy justice

The Iraqi quisling government is investigating who filmed the execution of Saddam Hussein with a mobile phone and who leaked the footage so it became available on the Internet.

Saddam deserved to die, but the way the execution was carried out is a disgrace for the American occupiers and their puppet government. They want to pretend that Saddam was executed by Iraqis. But all through his trial and up to 5.30 a.m. on the day of his execution, he was in the custody of the American forces. He was transported from one U.S. base to another and then handed over to the Iraqis – in a facility within the perimeter of an American base – where he was executed barely half an hour after being 'handed over'.

Then he was taunted and insulted, and he held his head high... Bush succeeded in turning Saddam – the guy he louted so much, “the guy who tried to kill my dad” - into a martyr. Well done, Georgie... Done a service for a fellow war criminal, didn't you?

And the Americans and their Iraqi lackeys are mad, not because of what they have done, but because it became known to the world. As Rosemary Behan explains in The Times (Without that shaky video we'd still be in the dark), “Even more chilling than the actions of Saddam’s guards is the thought that without the escape of this amateur video we would still be in the dark about what really happened, and about the true and apparently now official nature of the sectarian forces driving Iraq. In that we must be thankful for the truth, however sordid it is.” Thankful and sordid indeed.