12/29/2006
Communist Party of India protest against Saddam’s death
Activists of the Communist Party of India protest in Hyderabad against Saddam Hussein’s death sentence (Mahesh Kumar/AP)
The communist activists’ signs look the same no matter what part of the world they’re protesting in. Thanks to the AP for giving them PR. Like they don’t get enough.
Here’s another one (I’ll add pictures to this as I find them)
Bhubaneswar, Dec 31 (IANS) Activists of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) Sunday staged demonstrations in Orissa protesting the hanging of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
And another
Another rally was taken out by the Socialist Unit Center of India (SUCI) activists which started at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk and after crossing through Dak Bungalow crossing reached Patna Junction roundabout where Bush’s effigy was burnt.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:53 pm
WHEN WILL BUSH HANG FOR HIS CRIMES, HE IS A MURDERER AS WELL HOW MANY INNOCENT WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN DIED BY HIS HANDS AND WHAT MAKES HIM BETTER THAN SADDAM?
January 1st, 2007 at 6:27 am
Fitting that you’d put that incoherent comment with the caplock in a comment on this post,
Let’s see. What makes him different than Saddam. Bush wasn’t sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, Bush is a Christian, he wasn’t captured before the world running away like a coward and found in a spider hole, he’s not widely thought of as a criminal (only by communists and sympathizing leftists),he was born in America, he doesn’t have a half brother that was sentenced to death for murdering people, he’s not a a dictator who came to power by murdering and torturing people, his name doesn’t mean ‘one who confronts’, he’s only been the president because he was elected rather than through assassination or by a coup, he’s not about the Islamist idea of male domination through violence, he doesn’t carry a a copy of mein kempf in his back pocket, he never carried on a campaign against Americans like Anfal, his Uncle wasn’t a nazi, he’s not an admirer of Stalin/Lenin/Hitler, he’s only been in office since 2001 veresus Saddam’s 30+ years of intimidation, murder, and as far as I know there is no Bush equivalent of the Fayadeen Saddam or the mukharabat and Bush never had a ‘beheading of women campaign’ which lasted for two years under Saddam…those are just off the top of my head.
Favorite methods of torture by Saddam’s regime:
Eye gouging
Electric drill
Suspension from the ceiling with victim’s arms tied behind their back (dislocates the shoulder and rips the muscles and ligaments)
Electric Shock
Sodomy and Rape
Falaqa
Extinguishing cigarettes on the skin
Extraction of fingernails and toenails
Beating with whips, canes, cables, pipes and metal rods
Mock executions
Acid baths
I don’t think you can provide any knowledge of Bush having sanctioned anything even close to that. The most I’ve seen is people complaining of ‘waterboarding’ done when interrogating enemy combatants. That is nothing in comparison to the above.
January 16th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
It was on December 30th 2006 that it happened. Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging. There should never have been an execution for Saddam Hussein, the only thing it’s engendering is violence; more and more violence. People in Iraq and in other countries are revolt against their own country because their government killed someone that lot of people loved and worshiped, even though he was a bad person. People in Iraq had lost the guy they obeyed, who is going to tell them what they should do now, no one? The people in Iraq are just going to do what they do or what they feel like, kill the ones they don’t like…
Saddam Hussein should have been imprisoned and not executed. Executing him is an easy way to get away for what he did, for all the pain he did to the world, all the people he traumatised for life. He might have been an old frightened human being, but I don’t think he should have been hanged. I don’t think he was remorseful, he killed his own family members, shot them and made them suffer one by one. He took kids and parents and dragged them in front of their family and tortured them, he cut tongues of people, cut arms fingers, burned people, and he had the easy way off to die! I don’t think someone that tortured a lot of people should get killed without suffering. I think that Saddam should have been tortured in many different ways, I think he should have been buried alive!
I don’t think that hanging Saddam Hussein will show a good example in the world to not make violence. To show on live television an important person in Iraq getting killed is obviously not showing a good example of not doing violence in the world. I think that Saddam Hussein should never have got killed because to kill him only engenders to show people that killing others is alright, which isn’t true at all.
P.S. i need help to finish my Speech… (I am against the killing of Saddam, i think he should have suffered)