http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_verdict
It's astounding to me that human civilization has not learned ANYTHING about how to avoid human conflict and violence. Not only is the Iraqi government inciting Sunni violence by condemning Saddam to death, the U.S. is complicit in the death by celebrating it and therefore leaves our own people more vulnerable (and by their measure, "deserving") of that hatred as well.
An individual killing another is understandable when you or others are about to be killed, or when a country is defending its people from a current or planned attack.
But when killing is delivered in such an ordered, calculated way, it becomes part of a culture's philosophy of living.
Killing is endorsed as a civil way of resolving conflict.
May we soon be lifted from this reactionary, hedonistic culture of death and war.
I pray that we will distance ourselves from the tools of our enemy soon.
P.S. Thou shalt not kill
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